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I’m currently hating Jordan, the romantic interest from the first book. He’s too realistic. He got mad at his girlfriend because she lied to him, and he wants to kill her for a lie.

But when he met her he would kill her on sight if she told him the truth. She kept it a secret to save her life. And he’s so unwilling to give her a pass for lying to him when he was a stranger to her that he’d rather kill her.

This is a brilliant devotional book. My favorite part is when, in a chapter on Hagar, Abraham and Sarah’s servant, she says that we need to see ourselves in the stories in the Bible, “not only in the fringes, Hagar, but also as the villains, Sarai.”

It’s a wholesome (just look at the title) encouraging book, and also unflinching in its acceptance of Christian heroes as also sometimes villains. I love it!

I really hope the plot of this book isn’t “autistic man turns neurotypical.” Because the main character seems pretty clearly autistic to me and he’s having difficulties with his interactions the first time he meets new people. It would suck if it was a heartwarming story of how they all just got along at the end. I’m on chapter 6, of I never come back and edit this review.

Not sure if I can make it through this book. I’m 26% of the way through and It’s exactly like every other romance book.

The most vivid description of what it is like to be autistic I’ve ever read. It’s reminding me of me. Lol, I think this author just convinced me to try to find out if I’m autistic when Phoenix narrated, “… the words were not ready to start working yet.” Because that’s what I’m like when I wake up too.

I’m thoroughly enjoying these books, but there’s way too much description. He walked down a path that looked like this and that and then this other thing looked some way. It distracts from the plot.
Don’t get me wrong, great books. Loving them. But when something bugs me this much, I have to speak. I hope nobody reads this review, because I’m complaining about something trivial in a really good book.

The author doesn’t seem to have done a bit of research about pregnancy or birth. He probably assumed that the movies got it all right, and didn’t bother to ask any women who have had babies to read it and check for accuracy. I’m enjoying the series, but this is really distracting me from the plot. And from the characters. And from the emotion that’s supposed to be evoked by this part of the book.

Simon R Green’s nightside books are brilliant. They’re creative and unapologetically weird. This one seems like it apologizes every time it’s weird. It seems like he’s trying to write something more normal, and still figuring out how.

I’m enjoying the series so far, but this one is stretching my ability to suspend disbelief. The main character is able to live indefinitely without a job? And afford things like cabs on no salary?

Also, I hate books with people in power who have it out for the protagonist. It hits my inner child’s “it’s not fair!!!” emotions. So I’m struggling to make it through this book.

I’m really enjoying this series. It’s just my kind of Urban fantasy!

Rika and her team travel to Ireland to research the history of Druids and spirits, so Wulf can figure out the differences between what he was taught (spirits are evil, unthinking menaces) and what he’s only just seen with his own eyes (Rika proving all the propaganda wrong by successfully convincing spirits to cooperate).

I’m enjoying it, like every Hollows book, but the book keeps making me fear for the lives of characters that I love. It’s too much negative emotion!

Chapter 11 is brilliant! Everything up to it was interesting enough to get me to chapter 11.

Laz wakes up in a clone tank, tries to survive alone in a dystopian future, etc. it starts so slow that I almost gave up on it even though it’s by Orson Scott Card. He tries to get philosophical like Neal Stevenson has been doing. Maybe he’s doing well, because I don’t think I have made it through many of Neal Stevenson’s tomes. I guess we’ll see!

Why on earth do I never get in fights while completely naked and surrounded by fully clothed men? This series portrays it as a very common occurrence. There are more breasts in these books than in Game of Thrones!

Very good books, even if the author clearly has the “male gaze” focused on his main character, taking away some of her power. He tries really hard to give it back.

I just keep telling him to “Give Indie the amulet, idiot!”

Just a warning… it’s very off-color. Completely hilarious, kind-hearted, and relatable, but if you’re very 1990s-religious or easily offended by bawdy humor, this is not the book for you.

Don’t do what I did. I was home sick with a fever when I read it. The math was very challenging for my fever-addled brain. Still a good book, though.

Too sad

Among the very best of urban fantasy

I thought this one might be good for me and my daughter to read together, because it had a cool princess capable of defending herself on the cover. I read a few chapters, and it definitely is not that. Not for the ten-year-old daughter I have. The book is sad for a while, then talks about murder and stuff. Maybe when she’s in high school. But I’ll need to read it myself first then too, to make sure.

A sweet little love story for the teenager in all of us

Very good so far. I get excited when I get the opportunity to pick the book up again!

I always enjoy their books!

A fun book. I really enjoyed the awkwardness the two youngsters felt at the beginnings of interest in each other.

Good book. But I'm so irritated at the combat in this book. Melee character stands there taking wave after wave of magic damage and all he ever does is raise his sword higher? I even reread the previous few pages to see if he was chained to the floor or something. Nope!

Great book, but why doesn't she, the best of assassins, just kill the king and save the world the easy way?