It's been a while...
What I've just finished reading:
The Heir/The Crown - the final two "Selection" books by Keira Cass. These two were unexpected sequels to the first three "Selection" books, a sort of "The Bachelor" dystopian YA... In
The Heir and
The Crown, it essentially becomes "the Bachelorette" as Eadlyn Schreave tries to find a husband. The premise is dodgy, and the writing isn't brilliant, but it says plenty that I came back to this series after having read three books of it already. I do feel the world building in the final two lacked something from the first three: there simply wasn't as good a sense of the wider world. But Eadlyn was sympathetic, while flawed, protagonist, and both books hooked me sufficiently.
The White Rose - Amy Ewing, second in the Lone City trilogy. I believe my summary of the first book in this series,
The Jewel, was "Margaret Attwood did it before you, and better than you.' Needless to say, this is still true. But the story has gripped me sufficiently that I've already put the final book on hold, and I probably wouldn't have done that I hadn't decided that I should follow up
The Jewel to see if I liked the continuing story. It's just that it took a while for me to decide that.
What I'm reading now:
Currently 75% through
At All Costs, the next Honor Harrington in the sequence.
I picked up
Cadogan Square by Carol Drinkwater today, a two-in-one British
My Story compilation of Edwardian stories: it's pedestrian but the time period interests me.
What I'll read next:
I plan to return to Leanda de Lisle's
The Tudors, and while I want to get through enough of the Harringtons to finally finish
Torch of Freedom in sequence
, I'm feeling Harrington fatigue at the moment and may put it off for a while. I need to go back to the final Netherwood book,
Eden Falls, but that will depend whether it's available from the library.
