Reviews Batch 11

Paper Towns by John Green
Originally Posted to GoodReads: September 3, 2014

Paper Towns was absolutely awesome. I learned from it, laughed, and stayed up a lot longer than I should have reading it.

 

 

Affliction by Laurell K. Hamilton
Originally Posted to GoodReads: September 6, 2017

You know a book is going to blow you away when you're laughing and crying happy tears within the first chunk of it. I think Affliction is going down as my favorite Anita Blake novel.

Also, even though I totally called how it was going to end, I thoroughly enjoyed the ride there.

 

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Originally Posted to GoodReads: September 14, 2021

Beautiful

Absolutely beautiful. I loved it. There were happy tears. I should probably make a mental note that things starting out similar in tone/cadence to Harry Potter are probably going to be very good.

Got me through a couple of tough days at work. I like to hope more people are like Linus than not. We all need that kind of acceptance in our lives.

I thought the story was sweet and amusing. I enjoyed the different takes on the Magical Youths, a good chunk of which I hadn’t encountered before even as a voracious reader of fantasy. And I do mean the species of the characters. It’s nice to get away from the “norms” of creatures. Also the way they were handled personality-wise was excellent.

 

Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
Originally Posted to GoodReads: September 19, 2018

Better than the last one but geeeeez that schmaltzy ending... which, in all honesty, seems really tacked on. Like, "Oh hey, wanna write another book? Make sure to write an ending that'll lead into the next one!" Kind of an ending. I dunno, it was alright. *shrug*