Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

58: Fusion World by Joseph Lewis Tamone. Imagine a guy who hasn't read his entire adult life, that the last book he read was something he was forced to read in high school. Now imagine that guy saying "writing a book is easy, anyone could do it!". I have no idea who Joseph Lewis Tamone is, but based on the writing level of this book, that's exactly how I picture him.

This book wasn't even spellchecked. There was a basic spelling mistake on page two of chapter one that any spellcheck would have caught.

Even just reading a couple pages (prologue and two pages of chapter one), the characters were so poorly written. The whole thing was just so badly written. This is the kind of book that makes me hate self publishing.

Of seven reviews on Amazon, five are five-star reviews. The other two are four stars. Someone has been paying for reviews, I see.

59: Alice's Farm by Maryrose Wood. I read and reviewed this one about a year ago. Somehow I either got a second copy of it or I missed deleting it from my Kindle. DNF a year ago, DNF today once I realized I had read it already.

60: Rise of the Dragons by Angie Sage. I cannot believe this book was traditionally published (from Scholastic Press). This was a MG book, so the plots are generally not complex. Usually. In the first 10% of this book, there were eight POV characters. Even if each character had a chapter that would be a lot, but sometimes in the same paragraph there were three different POVs. It was just so muddied and impossible to follow, eventually I just gave up trying.

61: Arrow by Samantha M. Clark. I started off this story confused (the POV character is a tree), but once I figured that out, it should have made for an interesting story. Lone white boy living in the middle of the Amazon jungle with a magical tree, plane crashes and boy saves pilot, thus learning other people exist. But the whole thing felt unoriginal, flat, and heavy handed. It got good reviews on Goodreads though, so maybe it was just me.

62: The Dream of the Iron Dragon: An Alternate History Viking Epic by Robert Kroese. In this one, apparently time traveling space aliens went back to live with the Vikings, so modern day archaeologists were finding space alien stuff in Viking ruins. Characters were flat and plot was slow, slow, slow. DNFed it early on.