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Still working from my oldest downloads forward. I'm starting to question younger me's taste in books.
Pocket Pegasus by Susan Stafford. I only finished this one because it was so short. In it a horse-crazy 12 year old gets a part time job in a stable (that part of the story was good), but her house was hit by lightning and it made a small statue of a pegasus come to life. There were so many issues with the story, but one of the largest ones was that I didn't for a moment believe the main character was 12. She described the pegasus's voice (it was able to speak English somehow...) as sounding like "Dr. Niles Crane from Frasier". What 12 year old knows the show Frasier?
CAT by Sandra R Neeley. This was the worst story I've read in a long long long time. Like Pocket Pegasus, I only finished it because it was so short. In it a woman was having trouble with her space ship, so she docked at what she thought was an abandoned space station. On the station, an alien was living/hiding. It was a being mostly of energy, almost no physical mass at all. And yet, when the woman took a shower, the alien was so turned on by her butt and breasts. Pages after pages of description of it watching her shower and lusting after her body. Why would a space alien with nearly no physical mass at all (no body, no limbs, just a small lump of mass) think humans were sexy?
Then it actually got worse. It took the form of a human man and raped her during the night (god, the description of this went on for so many pages). Then the next morning she confronted it, and because it had a sexy smile, she forgave it and the two lived happily ever after. Really, it was just its sexy smile that won her over. Ugh.
DNF
34) Plague Land by Alex Scarrow. Not just horror, but body horror. How do these books keep getting on my Kindle?
35) Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain by Richard Roberts. This one was the best written of the four books in this post, but of the 20% or so that I read, it was nothing but a "kids in high school" story. Super powers were mentioned now and then, but only in passing. I have little interest in reading a story set in high school.
