Post #7

Halfway through Travis Baldree's Legends and Latte and it's way too comforting that I don't want it to stop. And yet I want to know how it ends; like what would Viv do - with the Madrigal, with Feenus, and the other characters I've yet to meet. 

But I do like Amity. May I have a dire-cat, oh Powers That Be!

That being said, I know I can't have an Amity. I do have my regular-sized cats. And dogs. And three new puppies. And the mundane things that happen daily. As well as the not-so-mundane everyday stuff people like me go through. I mean people like the rest of us.

Post #6

Book Vomit #1

Sometimes hype helps you overcome a reading slump. Case in point, this book by Rebecca Yarros. It's fantasy, it has dragons, it's a smorgasbord of tropes rolled into a spicy story with a cliffhanger of an ending. What's not to like?

Look, a dragon!

Some.

I do like imagining about the stone wall you have to climb to reach the parapet of  Basgiath War College in your head. Or crossing the parapet. Not the falling part. Not the part where the wind and the rain can make you slip and fall to your death. Lovely.

I don't envy the first years lining up and seeing the dragons after crossing the parapet. The possibility of being scorched by a dragon for seeing something in you they don't like.  But it's exhilarating to read. Of course you know the lead character, Violet, would get through this. What would be the point in making her the POV character if she'd get roasted in Chapter 4, right?

The imagined world is something to look forward to. 

On the one hand I do like the relatability of the text. There's the conversational sarcasm that a generation or two could relate to. 

On the other hand, I really though I was in another world, another time and place, until I get jarred by Xaden casually dropping his birthday was in March. What the hell? 

In the end I'm far more invested in the animals than in the love story. But this is basically a love story. The enemies to lovers trope at that. Imagined enemies to lovers trope, that is. 

But I do love the dragons. The fact they can communicate with their riders. I wish there were more gryphons. And the stories about gryphon riders. And wyverns. And venin.

Would I read the next book? Yes. This one helped me get over a reading slump. And I'd like to know more about how large Andarna is, and what power she would channel Violet.

 

Post #5

I haven't been here in a long time I don't even know what I'm going to write about. But hey, I don't want to deactivate this yet. Not now when I was reminded I still have this.

Life had its way with me the past five years or so since my last post about a rock concert. This morning I bought a ticket to watch the same band, hahaha. Life had its way and I come full circle, wanting to watch them again. Albeit this time via livestream as I can't be in Tokyo and the Asian leg of the tour is months  away.

I'm reading again, at least. Or trying to. Which is good. Books, I mean. Leisure reads. 

So, there's this much-hyped book called Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. I'm somewhere in the middle, and yes pages fly by when I do get around to it. It's meant for a YA audience. But I'm intrigued with the world painted where dragons bond with its riders. I couldn't wait to get to that. And there are gryphon riders and wyverns and such.

And wyverns are enemies. Why? I love wyverns. I've loved them since one guards the gate to the Dreaming.

But I know nothing about them. And there's nothing yet in this book about whether they talk or where they come from. 

At least I'm reading. For now.