Not certain if I'm going to be able to make it through this one. I'm loving the world building but I want to strangle one of the protagonists. I've already guessed two minor "twists." And there doesn't seem to be much pulling me into this world so far.
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KnittedMushroom commented on Weyward by Emilia Hart
KnittedMushroom wants to read Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
KnittedMushroom wants to read A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
KnittedMushroom wants to read I See You So Close by M Dressler
I See You So Close by M Dressler
The dead and their secrets refuse to stay buried in this thrilling sequel to M. Dressler’s award-winning The Last to …
Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain, Susan Cain
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking is a 2012 non-fiction book written by Susan …
KnittedMushroom started reading Weyward by Emilia Hart
Weyward by Emilia Hart
I am a Weyward, and wild inside.
2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited …
KnittedMushroom reviewed Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
Another one I couldn't put down!
5 stars
Content warning Minor vaugish spoilers for both Fallen Night and Priory of the Orange Tree
When I first heard that this was going to be a prequel I was so concerned I wasn't going to enjoy this book. I usually hate prequels because the author usually needs to spend time introducing characters that, if you read the "first" book to be released you're already familiar with. Shannon successfully dodges this by jumping multiple decades into her world's past, and introduces a new set of characters that have significant influence on the world.
It was an interesting experience at some points, however, where since I knew how the "story" was going to end because I read The Priory of the Orange Tree. I found myself demoralized and unwilling to continue to read these character's tales of struggle since I knew there was going to be another event of destruction far into the world's future. Despite that, I still continued on because I cared deeply for all these characters by that point and wanted to know how their tales ended.
As usual Shannon's done such an amazing job at both writing immaculately described scenery and cultures, while also writing such well developed characters that I feel like I'm friends and family with almost every character in the book. She also does a phenomenal job at inclusivity to where there are characters all over the rainbow that are just allowed to exist in the world. Several non-binary characters just exist, able to live their lives in the book with little drama from other characters over their identity. Everyone just accepts who everyone else is. There are more important things going on in the world than who we choose to love or how we want to be addressed.
Now I can't wait to see if there's another installment in this series!
KnittedMushroom rated Day of Fallen Night: 5 stars
Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none …
KnittedMushroom finished reading Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
KnittedMushroom wants to read All Systems Red by Martha Wells
KnittedMushroom wants to read Excession by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #5)
Excession by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #5)
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …