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So many books... My Kindle is down to 323 unread books, down from 450+ last year.
Dragon's Egg by Pauline M. Ross. I was so confused as to what age this book was geared to. The characters were so one-note cliche (the religious guy was ultra religious, the "evil" woman was nothing but evil), it felt like it was written for middle grade readers. And yet the story also mentioned things like forced prostitution, a 10 year old girl forced to work in a brothel, etc.
Set in a generic fantasy world, a girl was "born" at the age of two years old from a dragon's egg, and the plot was to try to get help for her. She clearly wasn't human, and needed someone to teach her to use her magic skills.
When I was done, I checked other reviews, and was stunned to find out this book was #6 in a series. The world building seemed so poor and thin... it's amazing the author had written five other books in the setting.
A Practical Guide to Evil (book 1) by David Verburg. Some parts of this first book of a four book series I really liked. It was set in a world where table top gaming/fantasy world roles existed. There was one "Lone Swordsman", one "Black Knight", one "Assassin", etc. With the Role came special powers and such. Someone could kill them off and take on the Role, but that was a hard task since they were basically superhuman.
I really enjoyed reading about the world and how the Roles worked, but the story meandered and I lost my drive to read it in the latter half.
Did Not Finish
10: Star Cat by Drew Mack. This was written by a friend of a friend, recommended to me many years ago. I'm pretty sure the friend who recommended it to me left LJ, which is for the best, since the book was pretty bad. Writing was bad, editing was poor, plot reached for logic but never got it. Set in the near future, there was an alien signal. No human could figure it out, but cats reacted to it, so the search was on for the right cat. Oddly only female cats reacted, and none that had been spayed... I dropped the story before learning if there was a reason for that.
11: Flee the Bonds by V J Kavanagh. I only got a few pages into this one. It was a Smashwords book, which never work for me. Poorly written.
12: Natural Selection by Freedman. Know how those bad Syfy channel movies all have a formula? This book followed that to a T. I actually got a quarter through it, just because that formula works. Plot was blah blah big monster stalking a research station, but none of the partygoing researchers took it seriously. I'm sure they got eaten one by one, after a racy sex scene.
13: A Practical Guide to Evil (book 2) by David Verburg. The second book of the series lost me pretty fast. I really wanted to know more about the Roles and main characters, but instead it was all in-world political stuff.
Dragon's Egg by Pauline M. Ross. I was so confused as to what age this book was geared to. The characters were so one-note cliche (the religious guy was ultra religious, the "evil" woman was nothing but evil), it felt like it was written for middle grade readers. And yet the story also mentioned things like forced prostitution, a 10 year old girl forced to work in a brothel, etc.
Set in a generic fantasy world, a girl was "born" at the age of two years old from a dragon's egg, and the plot was to try to get help for her. She clearly wasn't human, and needed someone to teach her to use her magic skills.
When I was done, I checked other reviews, and was stunned to find out this book was #6 in a series. The world building seemed so poor and thin... it's amazing the author had written five other books in the setting.
A Practical Guide to Evil (book 1) by David Verburg. Some parts of this first book of a four book series I really liked. It was set in a world where table top gaming/fantasy world roles existed. There was one "Lone Swordsman", one "Black Knight", one "Assassin", etc. With the Role came special powers and such. Someone could kill them off and take on the Role, but that was a hard task since they were basically superhuman.
I really enjoyed reading about the world and how the Roles worked, but the story meandered and I lost my drive to read it in the latter half.
Did Not Finish
10: Star Cat by Drew Mack. This was written by a friend of a friend, recommended to me many years ago. I'm pretty sure the friend who recommended it to me left LJ, which is for the best, since the book was pretty bad. Writing was bad, editing was poor, plot reached for logic but never got it. Set in the near future, there was an alien signal. No human could figure it out, but cats reacted to it, so the search was on for the right cat. Oddly only female cats reacted, and none that had been spayed... I dropped the story before learning if there was a reason for that.
11: Flee the Bonds by V J Kavanagh. I only got a few pages into this one. It was a Smashwords book, which never work for me. Poorly written.
12: Natural Selection by Freedman. Know how those bad Syfy channel movies all have a formula? This book followed that to a T. I actually got a quarter through it, just because that formula works. Plot was blah blah big monster stalking a research station, but none of the partygoing researchers took it seriously. I'm sure they got eaten one by one, after a racy sex scene.
13: A Practical Guide to Evil (book 2) by David Verburg. The second book of the series lost me pretty fast. I really wanted to know more about the Roles and main characters, but instead it was all in-world political stuff.
