What have you recently finished reading?
A couple of manga I picked up rather at random, both by Guri Nojiro: In Love’s Key, Reprised and A Beast’s Love is Like the Moon. I liked In Love’s Key, Reprised the better of the two, though A Beast’s Love is Like the Moon has a surprising bittersweetness at the end. Both made for good light reading, even if they weren’t exceptional.
What are you currently reading?
As ever, I’ve got a few things on the go at once, though I did clear the decks a little bit with my offline weekend earlier in the month, and then my long weekend that ended yesterday. I’m most actively reading Cat Sebastian’s You Should Be So Lucky: I’m not far into it yet, but I’m very sure I’m going to love the dynamic between Mark and Eddie.
Other than that, I’m also partway through Lucy Cooke’s Bitch, which I’m finding really slow going — despite being allegedly myth-busting about female behaviour/evolution across a range of species, I’m not finding it that surprising.
I’m also reading Sydney J. Shields’Â The Honey Witch, which is… so far, just “fine”. It’s not really pulling me in, and I’m not a fan of the writing style, though I can’t quite put my finger on why yet. I’m not far into it, though!
What will you be reading next?
KJ Charles’ The Duke at Hazard, certainly, and otherwise I need to get back to some of the books I have on hold, like James Alistair Henry’s Pagans. I’ve read 38 books so far in September, and yet I still have a bunch to read for my Book Spin Bingo card.
The Honey Witch was just “fine” for me too. And I have a KJ Charles book on the pile for next month, it will be my first!
I really like KJ Charles’ work! I’m very curious about the upcoming All Of Us Murderers, too…
Enjy your reading week!
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#TBR Reading next: Greek Lessons, by #HanKang
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Good reminder about KJ Charles 🙂
Honey Witch, agree on it being just fine. I was expecting more but it just didn’t seem to hit either the cosy or the romance vibe. There was something in the writing that really put me off, like the author couldn’t work out what style of narration she wanted. If it was written in first person it would have worked I think, but it’s not and so the occasional fourth wall breaks were jarring.
Yeah, I can’t put my finger on quite what it is about it, but it’s not worked for me so far, at least. I need to give it some more time though!