Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

Current theme: Books with things with wings on the cover.

DNF #42: Dragons of Introvertia by James and Bit Barringer. Sometimes a book seems like it might be so bad that it would be funny, which is why I got this one.

The country's name is Introvertia. All the people who live in it are introverts. As opposed to the Kingdom of People Yelling and Having No Concept of Personal Space (is what the people of Introvertia call it, though its official name is Exclaimovia).

The names of the places were just as... different. "Rapidly Flowing River passed along the edge of Very Large Forest."

Maybe the book was supposed to be funny. Maybe young readers would find it funny. I didn't.

DNF #43: Song Walker by Zillah Bethell. I read very few "real life people set in real life places during current times" books, I'd rather read fantasy or scifi. I thought this one might be interesting enough to work for me (a young girl gets lost in the Australian outback, and a first nation girl finds her), but my attention quickly wandered. Seemed well written though.

DNF #44: Wolf Girl: Into the Wild by Anh Do. I'm fine with YA and MG books, but this one was a children's book. Every couple paragraphs there was a picture, even if just a picture of text "HELLO!" "MUM!" things like that. The book was so short (would have been less than two hours to read), but I read half of it and was bored, so dropped it.

DNF #45: Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton. I love crows, so when I saw this book was written from a crow's POV, I was really excited. Problem is, it was supposed to be funny. Very funny. "uniquely hilarious", the publishers describe it as. You'd think "zombie apocalypse, narrated by a crow" would be funny, but I wasn't amused in the least. Not once, not even the most minor bit amused. Instead of funny, it came off as really stupid to me (for example, the main character, the crow, was named Shit Turd). Guess it just wasn't my kind of humor.

DNF #46: The Inkwell Chronicles by J. D. Peabody. Did you know there are Christian middle grade fiction books? I hadn't, but now I do. Beautiful cover, but right from the get-go it was way too religious for me. I don't need Bible verses and scripture in my fiction. Edit: The review from the site "Books for Christian Girls" says "Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘blast’, two ‘dumb’s, two ‘idiot’s, two ‘moron’s, and three ‘stupid’s". What wild "cussing"...