Yep, it’s that time again!

What have you recently finished reading?

I juuust finished Daniel M. Ford’s Advocate last night. It’s the third book in a series, and there are definitely still things I’m enjoying about the series, but holy crap Aelis really doesn’t learn. You’d swear there was going to be a narrative arc of her getting less arrogant and less inclined to use other people on her climb upwards, but there’s no sign of it yet. I started to find her massively annoying, and really, if she’s supposed to be so clever then there are several twists she should’ve seen coming.

Anyway, my full review will talk about all that at length, but suffice it to say that I’m somewhat losing my patience with the series.

What are you currently reading?

I have a few things on the go at once, as usual, but my main target at the moment is volume four of The Apothecary Diaries, the light novel version. I’m about a third of the way into it, and it does seem to be going by a bit quicker than the third volume did for me, but I think I might take a little break from the series after this book. I don’t own more of it yet, and I think my brain needs time to consolidate!

More slowly, I’m reading The Book Forger by Joseph Hone, which is interesting — I think I vaguely knew something about the forgeries that Hone is talking about, but nothing about the person who created them, or the people who tracked it down. It’d make good fiction!

What will you be reading next?

First priority: finish Maiga Doocy’s Sorcery and Small Magics and Courtney Smyth’s The Undetectables, or possibly DNF the latter if I’m still not vibing with it. Those are the final books I need to finish my Bookspin Bingo card on Litsy, so after that I’ll probably pursue my whim a bit and do some totally undirected reading. That probably means getting back to my rereads of Vivian Shaw’s Greta Helsing books, and finishing up Roger Hutchinson’s history of the Britain through the census, The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker. But we’ll see!