What are you currently reading?
The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories by Henry James
Dear Millie by Marco Previero
What did you just finish reading?
The Horse Healer by Gonzalo Giner
Fairest by Marissa Meyer
Selected Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
What do you think you’ll read next?
Lying by Lauren Slater
Critical Incident by Troy Blackford
Four by Veronica Roth
With the release of the new Winter cover, and all the controversy that caused yesterday, what a better time to read the 4th book from The Lunar Chronicles.
I’ll be honest, when I first saw the new cover, I thought WOW! How striking! And someone posted a picture of it on their tablet, and I think the glowing apple and the purply pink color was made for an iPad or Kindle Fire. It looked fierce and really shined on that tablet. However, after I read some of the breakdowns and discussions, I do agree that next to the other four, darker hardcovers, it is going to look weird. It is not as ethereal as the others, and the hand is definitely Levana…not Winter. Which ok–except Levana had her time to shine in Fairest.
So…striking cover for a tablet…just not quite right to mesh with the other books. Ok, assessment over.
As far as Fairest goes–it was a decent prequel. It did fill in a few of the details from how Levana became the evil witch we know her to be. However, some of it seemed a little too quickly written or edited or something. I had to reread a few parts to see if I had just misunderstood a tense or a phrase or a queue, and it just didn’t quite make sense. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what was wrong, other than it just didn’t seem to fit.
One last thing. If you’re looking to start this series, keep in mind that Fairest is a prequel, but do not start there. Start with Cinder. Don’t read this one until after Cress or things won’t quite make sense and you will be spoiled.
Fulfills Popsugar #16: A book from an author you love that you haven’t read yet
What are you currently reading?
Selected Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
What did you just finish reading?
All the Rage by Courtney Summers
Cress by Marissa Meyer
Cecilia by Fanny Burney
What do you think you’ll read next?
Fairest by Marissa Meyer
At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
Mrs. Astor Regrets by Meryl Gordon
So what do you get when you combine Firefly with fairy tales, and add in a bit of Star Wars for flavor?
You get The Lunar Chronicles. Specifically, Cress.
The drama really picks up in this third book, and it is so freaking cool. I’m not kidding about the Firefly angle either. So much awesome space nerdness going on–I kept expecting Malcolm and crew to pop up somewhere and cause mischief. Thorne reminds me a lot of Mal, actually.
This is the longest book in the series, but I couldn’t put it down. The crew is running around pretty much nonstop the whole time, so it is very fast-paced. You never know what crazy plan is going to come up next, or what is, of course, going to go wrong with that plan.
Meyer is leading up to the eventual Lunar Wars, so there’s a pretty big cliffhanger at the end of this. I’m interested to see whether Fairest is a continuation/fourth book, or if it’s a prequel, companion book, or how it fits in. I know she’s working on Winter currently as an end to everything. I’ll be reading Fairest in a week or so, so I’ll let you know! (And yes, I could just look it up, but that’s no fun!)
Fulfills PopSugar #32: A trilogy
In my latest book haul, I picked up a gorgeous series by Marissa Meyer. If you saw my latest post, I gushed about the first two books, so I won’t do much of a review here.
Suffice it to say, I’m loving them.
And…guys, these books are GORGEOUS.
LOOK LOOK LOOK!
I couldn’t NOT have these on my shelves. And, lucky for me, they are right in my vision line when I sit at my desk.
Oooooh the pretties!
What was the last book you read?
As I Lay Reading 