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City in Ruins by Don Winslow

I’ve been looking forward to reading this for a while. Great start so far, it reads like a film. Could definitely see this as good material for an adaptation 💙📚

Finished this real quick. Yeah it’s weird all the way through

Very jealous! This one has been a long time coming

Stephen King is an author I feel like I appreciate more when I space out my reads. Every time I come back it takes no time at all for me to be reminded of his unique style. He has such a great narrative voice. It’s so easy to get into 📚💙

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Only about 1/3 of the way into this one. It’s damn weird so far. 💙📚

Children of gods and Fighting men is my favourite fantasy book I’ve read this year… and I’ve read some good ones! Fantastic blend of fantasy and history. Well realised characters and compelling story. Also free on audible at the moment. Very highly recommend 💙📚🪐

They definitely are! I managed to get 2 tickets just now for £68 each. Much more sensible

Embarrassing that there’s so many NFL London tickets left. 250,000+ people in the queue for 60k capacity venue. Many fans not willing or able to pay these prices! On the other side if NFL drop prices now it’s a slap in the face to those who have already bought a ticket. Not fair to anyone #NFL

Written on the stars arrived yesterday ahead of its release next week. Needless to say I started it last night and didn’t get enough sleep! Absolutely loving it so far 📚💙

It’s a different guy! I also got this mixed up with James SA Corey, that’s how I found it. Haven’t done Mercy of gods yet but I finished the Expanse last year and had a blast. Would recommend for Star Trek fans. It’s different enough but has some of that hard sci fi we all love

Empire of silence ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The only criticism I could fathom would be that this is “derivative”to that I say: yeah I guess? If there was only ever original ideas published we wouldn’t have that many new books published at all.

This book is flippin awesome.

Basically hate read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn so I can appreciate James by Percival Everett even though people are saying you don’t have to. Yeah that’s an afternoon I won’t get back

This was a great intro to Cosby and the genre. I thought I’d sussed it by the third chapter and was glad that I was wrong as it made it worth it. Some very good character work and compelling story. I’d recommend for fans of True Detectives tv show ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’m about 20% in and really enjoying it. Hope you like it too

Started Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio and is it just me or is there some GGK vibes in these prose? Might just be the narrator 🪐💙📚

My first S A Cosby novel, All the sinners bleed. A compelling start, I feel like I’m going to finish this one quickly 💙📚

I’ve intentionally branched out and read away from reading majority fantasy this year so far and am really glad I did. So far I’ve read 2 fiction, 2 non-fiction and one fantasy. Now I’m halfway through IT by Stephen King and blasting through (did half over the weekend) 🩸📚💙 🪐📚

I have this issue for sure but I try and tell myself it’s a good problem to have. As long as you’re enjoying what you’re doing I don’t think there’s such thing as too much reading!

About 2/3 of the way through a Man called Ove and hot damn this book is emotional 😭 📚💙

If you haven’t carried on with Bloodsworn I am happy to say that once you’ve got all the names down in Shadow of the Gods there’s no massive influx of characters in the other books. I’m hoping it’s the same with FFATF

I feel like this book meandered to its conclusion and was not very satisfying, I found myself asking “what exactly is the author trying to say here?” and not really coming to any meaningful conclusion (2/2) 📚💙

Strange Sally Diamond ⭐️⭐️⭐️
After a strong start I am left a little disappointed. I enjoyed the characters, more or less all are well crafted. The humour is great and the first 50% I thoroughly enjoyed the story. What brought this down for me is the direction or lack thereof. (1/2)

Yes definitely, I want to see if I feel the same way with book 2 or if doesn’t have the same problems as most introductions have happened now. I have high hopes as most of my problems stem from the first 200 pages

Malice- John Gwynne ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bit mixed on this. A slow start and overload of POVs/ Characters made the beginning tough but after 200ish pages the book came to life. By the end I love some of the characters and am excited about continuing the series 🪐📚💙

It’s taken a while but I’m getting into this now I’m approaching halfway

So sweet! A good name for a good girl

Started Malice by John Gwynne this afternoon. Solid enough start so far, I’ll be interested to see how this compares to the Bloodsworn 🪐📚💙

If you want long look no further than the wandering inn… I haven’t personally read/ listened to but have seen people rave about it and it’s very long

I have so much I could say about this. It would be a perfect book club pick