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March 29: 10 Of My Most Recent 5 Star Reads (Or Ten Of The Best Books I’ve Read Recently if you don’t 5 star stuff…or you could do 5 of my latest five star reads & five of my most disappointing or 1 star reads)
Recent 5 Stars
1. Marked in Flesh; Anne Bishop. Part of a series. This is the book where the humans who’ve been trying to take land from the Others (vampires, shifters, elementals, etc.) reap what they’ve sown.
2. Fire Touched; Patricia Briggs. I love Mercy! Werewolves (and one shape-shifting coyote) fighting the fay monsters.
3. Lucky Penny; Annath Hirsch & Yuko Ota. A story about finding yourself, and the meaning of luck.
4. Jane Steele; Lyndsay Faye. If Jane Eyre was willing to commit a little murder to improve her life.
5. Sorcerer to the Crown; Zen Cho. The start of a fascinating world, with some high-cost magic.
Recent 2- Stars (1 stars almost never happen)
1. Gourmet Rhapsody; Muriel Barbery. I liked the characters of the first book, but this book… nope.
2. The Narrator; Michael Cisco. A ‘just couldn’t connect’ book.
3. The Eisenberg Constant; Eugene Egner. A weird short story about a time loop that I couldn’t follow.
4. The Last Days of Magic; Mark Thomkins. What can I say? Kinda depressing.
5. Consider the Lobster; David Foster Wallace. Interesting topics somehow made uninteresting by the writing.
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Yours is the first list I’ve seen that uses both sides of the prompt. I think it’s just as interesting to see what people didn’t like as what they did!
I haven’t read any of these, but I might have to check out Lucky Penny. It seems really interesting!
Great list! 🙂
I usually rate books in the 3 to 4 star range, so getting ten of either wouldn’t be ‘recent’ at all!
oooh! I need to read Sorcerer to the Crown– I’ve heard such good things!
It has well-developed characters, a satisfying conclusion and a good set-up for the next books, and an interesting magic system. Hope you enjoy it!
I haven’t read any of these, but I’ve heard of a few. I really like the cover of The Narrator, too bad you didn’t like it!
Just because I didn’t like it won’t mean you won’t, if you want to give it a try!
Love how you split your list! That Jane Steele book looks fantastic – I love the cover!
The cover is very pretty, isn’t it? 🙂
I’m so glad you liked Jane Steele, I’m looking forward to reading it soon!
Hope you enjoy it, too!
I haven’t heard of any of these. I like it! I love discovering new books. 😀
TTT is great for that!
I like the idea of splitting your list this week. I’m the same I don’t tend to rate books one star, but there haven’t actually been that many I haven’t liked recently. I really enjoy all of Patricia Briggs books, she’s an amazing author.
Splitting the list always makes the TTT go easier. 🙂
The cover for Lucky Penny looked interesting and reading your summary and the Goodreads summary, it seems like a great read. Thank you for sharing! I’ve added it to my TBR 😀
Nothing wrong with a never-ending TBR list, right?
Haha, exactly!