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Wednesday Reading Meme
Jul. 14th, 2021 08:44 pmWhat I Just Finished Reading
Again not much this week. I read Prince of Air and Darkness (The Darkest Court, #1) by M.A. Grant, a paranormal m/m romance. It was a fast read and intriguing with world building hooks, though I wasn't thrilled that one of couple apparently regularly tortures other fae as part of his fairy court position, even if they are more resilient than humans. At least the information he got in the plot relevant instance was part of a trap, and the torture didn't work for intelligence gathering. So the plot didn't implicitly endorse it as unsavory but effective (which I loathe as trope).
I also read some fanfic.
What I'm Reading Now
I actually started reading Death at the Crystal Palace by Jennifer Ashley, i.e. Kat Holloway #5, before the paranormal romance above, but kind of got stuck around page 80, and switched books. It's not that it was bad, but by the last book I was already a bit impatient with the drawn out yet repetitive revelations about Daniel McAdam and his secretive government or government-adjacent investigator/fixer/secret agent job, and this looks to turn out more of the same.
Though I still hope there'll be finally some follow through. I feel like teasers should only be strung out for so long, or I start to feel cheated, and five books is pushing it. With longer series I actually want to find out more things about a character, not constantly have the same thing left dangling.
What I'm Reading Next
Probably the next of M.A. Grant's The Darkest Court series? I picked up all three in some sale, and the world building and overarching plot hooks worked better than the romantic couple in the first.
Again not much this week. I read Prince of Air and Darkness (The Darkest Court, #1) by M.A. Grant, a paranormal m/m romance. It was a fast read and intriguing with world building hooks, though I wasn't thrilled that one of couple apparently regularly tortures other fae as part of his fairy court position, even if they are more resilient than humans. At least the information he got in the plot relevant instance was part of a trap, and the torture didn't work for intelligence gathering. So the plot didn't implicitly endorse it as unsavory but effective (which I loathe as trope).
I also read some fanfic.
What I'm Reading Now
I actually started reading Death at the Crystal Palace by Jennifer Ashley, i.e. Kat Holloway #5, before the paranormal romance above, but kind of got stuck around page 80, and switched books. It's not that it was bad, but by the last book I was already a bit impatient with the drawn out yet repetitive revelations about Daniel McAdam and his secretive government or government-adjacent investigator/fixer/secret agent job, and this looks to turn out more of the same.
Though I still hope there'll be finally some follow through. I feel like teasers should only be strung out for so long, or I start to feel cheated, and five books is pushing it. With longer series I actually want to find out more things about a character, not constantly have the same thing left dangling.
What I'm Reading Next
Probably the next of M.A. Grant's The Darkest Court series? I picked up all three in some sale, and the world building and overarching plot hooks worked better than the romantic couple in the first.