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I'm down to 363 unread books on my Kindle! Down from just over 400! I'm trying to be selective about adding new ones, because dying with unread books is probably how you end up as a ghost haunting a library.
Finished:
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher. Oh this was so good! I was briefly worried because it is horror, but to me it was more wacky fantasy than scary (there was just a brief scary part). The plot followed two almost-strangers as they end up in a portal between worlds. It was so odd and foreign and interesting! Kingfisher is such a good author. I'm working my way through all of her books.
Storm after Storm by Ryan Graudin. Only reason I finished this one was because it was so short. Set in the same world/book series as Blood for Blood (below), it told the story of a side character. Only problem with that was that this story was set within one of the books, so we knew all the happenings already. Waste of a story, it was just a retelling of part of the plot of one of the series books.
Abandoned:
Endling by Katherine Applegate. Applegate wrote the Animorphs and other good book series, but this one just so completely did not work for me. Too simple, too boring, too generic, too flat. The world building, characters, plot, nothing hooked me. (DNF 22%)
Stormborn by J.T. Williams. I'm not sure if this author was attempting a style with their writing or something, but it was unreadable. The individual words were in English, but together too often they made no sense. It must have been very short, since I gave up at a couple pages in and yet somehow reached 11%. Amazon reviews mention how poorly written and how short it is, so I guess it's not just me. (DNF 11%)
Blood for Blood by Ryan Graudin. I had loved this whole series (AU about what the world would be like if the Nazis had won), but the series just kept going slowly downhill. By the time I got to this book, I realized I didn't care anymore. Nothing much happened plot-wise, and the strong Jewish girl main character who somehow escaped concentration camp was falling in love with Nazi boy. Sadly I'm done with this series. (DNF 41%)
Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 11 + 22 + 41 = 74%
Previous abandoned book total: 562%
New total: 636% (six books)
Finished:
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher. Oh this was so good! I was briefly worried because it is horror, but to me it was more wacky fantasy than scary (there was just a brief scary part). The plot followed two almost-strangers as they end up in a portal between worlds. It was so odd and foreign and interesting! Kingfisher is such a good author. I'm working my way through all of her books.
Storm after Storm by Ryan Graudin. Only reason I finished this one was because it was so short. Set in the same world/book series as Blood for Blood (below), it told the story of a side character. Only problem with that was that this story was set within one of the books, so we knew all the happenings already. Waste of a story, it was just a retelling of part of the plot of one of the series books.
Abandoned:
Endling by Katherine Applegate. Applegate wrote the Animorphs and other good book series, but this one just so completely did not work for me. Too simple, too boring, too generic, too flat. The world building, characters, plot, nothing hooked me. (DNF 22%)
Stormborn by J.T. Williams. I'm not sure if this author was attempting a style with their writing or something, but it was unreadable. The individual words were in English, but together too often they made no sense. It must have been very short, since I gave up at a couple pages in and yet somehow reached 11%. Amazon reviews mention how poorly written and how short it is, so I guess it's not just me. (DNF 11%)
Blood for Blood by Ryan Graudin. I had loved this whole series (AU about what the world would be like if the Nazis had won), but the series just kept going slowly downhill. By the time I got to this book, I realized I didn't care anymore. Nothing much happened plot-wise, and the strong Jewish girl main character who somehow escaped concentration camp was falling in love with Nazi boy. Sadly I'm done with this series. (DNF 41%)
Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 11 + 22 + 41 = 74%
Previous abandoned book total: 562%
New total: 636% (six books)
