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Book Review, Fiction, Science Fiction

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers ~ Book Review

Morgan

My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪
Genre: Science Fiction
Read if you liked: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

To be back with Sibling Dex and Mosscap was such a joy. I loved A Psalm for the Wild-Built and truly questioned whether a sequel could give me the same peaceful/warm squishy feelings. In this story, the two are headed into the cities to allow Mosscap to learn more about humanity. Its arrival is heralded with much excitement anywhere it goes, a very new and somewhat overwhelming experience for both of our main characters.

Since this book was more focused on towns and cities, it lost some of the charm of wandering the forests in peace that I so loved in the first book. For about the first half, I was discouraged that this would keep me from fully enjoying the story, but wouldn’t you know it, Sibling Dex and Mosscap felt the exact same was as I did.

This was another philosophical, heartwarming, thoughtful story set in a world that is nuanced and fascinating. I usually find it a slog to read through a bunch of world building, but in this case, I loved uncovering more and it added so much depth to the book.

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Book Review, Fiction, Romance

Twisted Love by Ana Huang ~ Book Review

Morgan

My Rating: 🍪🍪.5
Genre: Romance

I gotta stop getting excited about these super-hyped-on-social-media romance books. Alex Volkov has everything: brains, looks, inexplicable ability to sing, but he’s haunted by demons from his past. Ava Chen is his best friend’s little sister who’s just unreliable enough that her brother asks Alex to look out for her. Surprise, surprise, instead of doing that he sleeps with her.

Alex really did not seem appealing to me. He felt very flat and one dimensional and too possessive and focused on how kinky he is in bed. Both main characters have dark pasts but deal with it in completely opposite ways. I was interested to see how that would play out as the story went on. I will say I didn’t see the twist coming and it added a much needed level of depth and complexity to the story that I appreciated and was exciting and compelling and complicated.

Other than that, I didn’t really care about the characters and it felt like the story was trying too hard to be something it wasn’t (unclear quite what).

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