My masterplan to maximise all those double and triple stamps offers at Waterstones is starting to pay off. Lots of lovely new books arriving through the door and now I have nearly £30 in stamps. Now I just need to find some space for them all. I seriously need a good clear-out of books I no longer want. They are everywhere.
Last week I reviewed The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake and reminded myself of some of the 2021 releases I didn’t get round to. Then I actually read one of those Top Ten Tuesday books and patted myself on the back.
I didn’t enjoy Rise to the Sun as much as Leah Johnson’s previous book, You Should See Me in a Crown. I’m not a big fan about reading about music in general, so the setting of the music festival should have been a warning sign but I was hoping for some of the joyousness I found in her first book. A bit too much instalove, with behaviour that would be a red flag at the the start of a relationship, and some plot points were overly convenient.
I listened to The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole, which is included in the Audible Plus catalogue. This was OK, didn’t quite work for me as either a romance or science fiction. I didn’t feel the chemistry and I found the plot a bit hard to believe. Her neighbour AI sounds like a robot, yet the household AI can carry on a normal conversation, and she doesn’t realise he’s not human. It’s explained away by a brain injury, but it wasn’t convincing.
So after a run of disappointing reads I picked up one of my new purchases, How High We Go in the Dark and so far I am loving it.
New books acquired:
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
[gifted] The Butterfly Assassin by Finn Longman (Simon & Schuster)
Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell
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How High We Go In The Dark is near the top of my reading list, so I’m really pleased to hear you’re enjoying it! Now I’m even more excited to pick it up. I’d love to hear your thoughts when you’ve finished reading! 📚❤️ X x x