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Prey: The Drovers by John D. Brown
Outlaws: The Drovers by John D. Brown
What fun books these were! The worldbuilding was pretty basic, but the plot was fun as hell and I loved all the characters.
Set in a fantasy world, a boy's family (already living on the edge of poverty) was driven into starvation when their sole cow died and their cheese-making pots were stolen. The boy sets out to find odd jobs to make money to help them, and happens into a job as a drover (cow herder).
That seems such a simple idea, and much of the books were just day-to-day life, but they were so interesting! The head drover who hired them taught them to fight (so they could better defend the herd), and he and the cook (the only two adult main characters) had some kind of interesting backstory that we only ever got glimpses of.
The whole story was such an adventure, it was so fun from beginning to end!
The only downside is that the author is only writing book three now, so it's going to be ages before it comes out. It's too easy to lose track of in-progress book series. :/ I hope I remember it exists once it gets published.
DNF
Rise of a Necromancer by Rosie Scott: Typical "bad self published" book. I only got as far into it as I did because it was so short. DNF 7%
Owlflight by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon: I tried so hard to like this book, but man I can't believe it was published. The first 22% of the book was characters thinking. There would be one simple sentence like "He kicked the stone down the road" and then 20 pages of the character thinking about things. Most of the first quarter of the book was not just characters thinking, it was almost exclusively one character thinking (there was just a couple pages where a second character was thinking). The whole book was so pointless. I only gave it way too much of a chance because it came highly recommended to me. DNF 66%
Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 7% + 66% = 73%
Previous abandoned book total: 377%
New total: 450% (four books)
