Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

DNF #22: The Boy, The Wolf, and the Stars by Shivaun Plozza. I went from thinking this would be a five star book for me to DNFing it just beyond the 50% point.

The world was interesting (a wolf ate the Stars, making the Dark into a threat). The Stars had been real, conscious beings and they brought magic into the world. A young orphan boy and his best friend (a fox) have to try to bring the Stars back to the night sky, which would make the Dark (and the creatures that live in it) less of a threat.

The problem with this story was how horribly evil all the adult characters were. Not even realistically evil, but horribly, over the top, incredibly stupid evil. It just got too much to stick with the story, even though I loved the idea of the wolves, Stars, and the whole Dark/Light part.

DNF #23: The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali. There was nothing at all wrong with this book, other than it's not what I usually read (someone recommended it to me). Set in Iran in 1950s (that part was interesting!), it was a story about two teenagers in love. I'd rather not read at all than read about a teenage romance set in the real world.

The book was well written and the setting was interesting, I just could not care less about the characters/romance.

DNF #24: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. I read this book in 2010 and loved it. Now, 14 years later, I cannot see what I saw in it then. I had written then:

I loved every page of this book. I loved all the characters. I loved the aliens. I loved every plot and twist to it.

I felt exactly opposite of that now (which is so weird!). There wasn't one character I was interested in. The aliens were mildly interesting, but only because the humans were so boring. I slogged through the first 20% and then DNFed it.