Wednesday Reading Meme
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meganbmooreWhat are you currently reading
Nothing! Because I finished Kelley Armstrong's Spell Bound a little while ago and haven't started anything else yet.
What did you recently finish reading?
I read volumes 6-10 of The Moment When A Fox Becomes A Wolf, which completes the series. The second half was a considerably more conventional high school romance shoujo than the first, but I still enjoyed it, and while, as tends to happen in shoujo, Yoo Ha's issues dominated a lot of the plot in the second half, Eun Song didn't become secondary or get pushed to the side, as often happens. Most of the interesting genderbender stuff is only in the first half, but I thought it was an enjoyable series overall.
I finished Dime Store Magic, and liked it a lot, and skipped ahead in the "Women of the Otherworld" books to the first 2 Savannah-centric novels, Waking the Witch and Spell Bound. I find Savannah extra-interesting because it's hard to tell how many of her actions are genuine, sometimes, and how many are her behaving. Her maternal grandfather is a high demon, her mother was an extra-infamous dark witch, and her father was heir to the supernatural mob, and then she got adopted by uber-do-gooders during puberty, and I don't think even she quite knows how much of what she does is because it's what she wants to do/thinks she should do, and how much is that she has abandonment issues and doesn't want Paige and Lucas to give up on her. (Never happening.) Waking the Witch is Savannah's first solo-investigation, and...it was good, and I liked being inside Savannah's head instead of getting other people's POV of her, but it didn't have the other characters from the series until Adam showed up near the end, and it felt like Savannah kind of went through a string of male partners. I liked Spell Bound more because it had more of the other characters in the series and felt more directly tied to Savannah and her coming of age, even though a lot of it was buildup to the next and last book in the series.
What do you think you'll read next?
Dunno. I think I'm through with books I have out on ILL, and so have to read first, but I'll have to doublecheck. I have the books I mentioned the other day checked out from the library, along with a couple other romance novels, Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena, Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl, and I think a couple other books checked out from the library, and my brain is still in "must read all the manga ever" mode. I also need to see if the library has the volumes of Kimi ni Todoke that I haven't read yet. (I've read through volume 12, and I believe the US releases are at volume 16.)
Related to what I've been reading: "The Women of the Otherworld" is being adapted into a TV series, which you'd think would have me excited, given how I've been pretty much mainlining them, but it's afocused on the werewolves, which is my least favorite part of the franchise in what I've read, and Jeremy is being played by a blonde white dude. Who, for all I know, is a perfectly talented and likable actor, but Jeremy in the books is not a white dude, blonde or otherwise.
Nothing! Because I finished Kelley Armstrong's Spell Bound a little while ago and haven't started anything else yet.
What did you recently finish reading?
I read volumes 6-10 of The Moment When A Fox Becomes A Wolf, which completes the series. The second half was a considerably more conventional high school romance shoujo than the first, but I still enjoyed it, and while, as tends to happen in shoujo, Yoo Ha's issues dominated a lot of the plot in the second half, Eun Song didn't become secondary or get pushed to the side, as often happens. Most of the interesting genderbender stuff is only in the first half, but I thought it was an enjoyable series overall.
I finished Dime Store Magic, and liked it a lot, and skipped ahead in the "Women of the Otherworld" books to the first 2 Savannah-centric novels, Waking the Witch and Spell Bound. I find Savannah extra-interesting because it's hard to tell how many of her actions are genuine, sometimes, and how many are her behaving. Her maternal grandfather is a high demon, her mother was an extra-infamous dark witch, and her father was heir to the supernatural mob, and then she got adopted by uber-do-gooders during puberty, and I don't think even she quite knows how much of what she does is because it's what she wants to do/thinks she should do, and how much is that she has abandonment issues and doesn't want Paige and Lucas to give up on her. (Never happening.) Waking the Witch is Savannah's first solo-investigation, and...it was good, and I liked being inside Savannah's head instead of getting other people's POV of her, but it didn't have the other characters from the series until Adam showed up near the end, and it felt like Savannah kind of went through a string of male partners. I liked Spell Bound more because it had more of the other characters in the series and felt more directly tied to Savannah and her coming of age, even though a lot of it was buildup to the next and last book in the series.
What do you think you'll read next?
Dunno. I think I'm through with books I have out on ILL, and so have to read first, but I'll have to doublecheck. I have the books I mentioned the other day checked out from the library, along with a couple other romance novels, Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena, Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl, and I think a couple other books checked out from the library, and my brain is still in "must read all the manga ever" mode. I also need to see if the library has the volumes of Kimi ni Todoke that I haven't read yet. (I've read through volume 12, and I believe the US releases are at volume 16.)
Related to what I've been reading: "The Women of the Otherworld" is being adapted into a TV series, which you'd think would have me excited, given how I've been pretty much mainlining them, but it's afocused on the werewolves, which is my least favorite part of the franchise in what I've read, and Jeremy is being played by a blonde white dude. Who, for all I know, is a perfectly talented and likable actor, but Jeremy in the books is not a white dude, blonde or otherwise.