Wednesday, January 31
Tuesday, January 30
Audiobook Review: Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
Monday, January 29
Blodeuedd Reviews: The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
Series: The Mistborn Saga (#7), Mistborn: Wax & Wayne (#4), The Cosmere (#13)
Format: 507 pages, Paperback
Published: November 15, 2022 by Gollancz
Fantasy/own
My love for Sanderson is dying. He turns out books like crazy, BUT, still there are years between books in a series so when I finally get to a book I do not remember anything. And if I had to re-read that is all I would do. I can not remember other books so all this Cosmere stuff is lost on me and there was so much.
It was good. But at the same time yes....I have stopped caring.
I do not even feel like writing anything. Too many projects man! Chill pill please.
Ok so this is all negative, but I have just reached that point where I can not keep track of everything cos there is too much and too much time in between.
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner, Wayne, find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between the capital, Elendel, and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate—whose corruption Wax and his wife, Steris, have sought to expose—and Bilming is even more entangled.
After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere—Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost.
Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.
Saturday, January 27
Movie Review: The Proposal (2009)
Rating: PG-13
Where I Got It: Hulu
Friday, January 26
Book Review: Shoot the Horses First by Leah Angstman
Thursday, January 25
Audiobook Review: Victoria & Albert - A Royal Love Affair
Wednesday, January 24
Book Review: Rafe by Kathy Ivan
Tuesday, January 23
DNF Second Chance Announcement!
Monday, January 22
Blodeuedd's Monday Review: White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Published: September 1, 2001 by Little, Brown and Company
Fiction
Own
This one was well written and also really disturbing. The main character Astrid is placed into foster care after her mother ends up in jail. Her flaky weird compelling mother. A poet who commits a crime of passion.
As for Astrid, oh this child turned teenager is effed up. Even at the end she seems to think she is writing her own story. No, you were used and abused by horrible grotesque men who should have known better. And women for that matter. It is disturbing because she is all in, while I on the outside find it horrifying. And she never seems to realise it.
I did not think I would enjoy it, but I did. In all its sadness
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned--becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.
Thursday, January 18
Audiobook Review: Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs
Wednesday, January 17
Book Review: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Tuesday, January 16
Second Chance for an Old DNF??
Second chance means: "An opportunity to try something again after failing one time"
One of my goals this year is to give one or two DNFs a second chance. New year, new me...right? Like people, sometimes they need a second chance. I went back to some of my oldest DNFs here in blogland.
Here are some self-imposed rules I have made:
- The book must be sitting on the DNF shelf for over a year. Time heals wounds...right?
- Honor the poll choice
- Read at LEAST 125 pages before giving up.
- Be completely and utterly honest
- If it is a physical book on my shelf and I DNF it again, I MUST rehome it.
Monday, January 15
Blodeuedd's Monday Review: Four Day Fling by Emma Hart
By: Emma Hart
Narrated by: Nelson Hobbs, Melissa Moran
Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
Release date: 02-26-19
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Contemporary romance / bookbeat
This one was funny. But srsly Poppy, prepare a bit.
Poppy meets a guy, hooks up, and then invites him to a wedding. See here is where Poppy and I do not prepare the same way. She is all, I need a fake date cos my family will be all over me! But like hello, maybe learn a bit more than what his name is. It does not take long, prepare a bit. Ack Poppy.
Her mother was horrible. Like ugh.
Adam is the sweetest. He does this for her, and they fall in lust and love. But have some drama to get over.
Funny, cute and I will totally read more by her
Great narration that kept me hooked. There were two narrators, but the female one was the one in charge, so when the first change happened it was weird. And he did not get a lot of room.
Imagine this. You’re ready to leave after a one-night stand, and you’re figuring out how to—shock horror—leave your number and ask him to be your fake boyfriend for your sister’s wedding this weekend. When he wakes up. Well, that happened to me. And over coffee and omelets, I found myself a date.
Which was how I ended up arriving at the wedding with a guy I knew nothing about. I didn’t know his last name, or how we met, or how long we’d been dating. I didn’t know where he grew up, what he’d majored in in college, or how many siblings he had. I sure as hell didn’t know he was Adam Winters, hotshot hockey player—and not only my father’s favorite player, but my little nephew’s freakin’ idol. Which means I’m in trouble. Big, big trouble. My mother is suspicious, my sister is bridezilla on crack, and my grandpa will tell anyone who’ll listen about his time in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Four days. I have to keep this up for four days, and then Adam and I can return to our regular lives, where we don’t have sex whenever we’re alone and my family aren’t interrogating him over his intentions with me.
At least, that’s the plan. And we all know what happens to those.