#I thought kanej was very interesting mainly bc kaz was very complex
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reading the new Tana French novel via audiobook and just sort of like :/ :/ thinking about the tight, propulsive plotting of her earlier novels…I’m 20% in and while the plot did land quite early compared to like, the witch elm, I’m not getting that gorgeous eerie feeling I got from In the Woods or The Likeness. Ugh! I’m in such a reading slump for books rn and I can’t decide if it’s because I’m not vibing with anything I’m reading or if it’s because my brain has suddenly developed a preference for a physical book as obsessed to an ebook or audiobook. I did recently read A Country of Ghosts via my tried and true method of ‘multiple hours of uninterrupted reading time in the bath without my phone and with a print book’ so clearly it is possible but, to give you an example of how powerful my book slump has been, I got to like 85%-90% of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo and was basically like “well. whatever.” and never finished it. That was fully a month ago :(
has anyone recently read anything that rocked their world? please advise.
#currently#tana french#Leigh Bardugo#I should finish the familiar it’s just that like. heavy sigh the fucking PACING!!!!!!#I had no idea how sensitive I am to bad pacing until I suddenly started reading sooooo many books with pacing issues#girl fire your editor. they are bad at their job#part of the problem is that it is a stand alone so it is hugely compressed#part of the problem is that I am sort of disinterested by Leigh’s obsession with dark romance#I thought kanej was very interesting mainly bc kaz was very complex#the darkling wasn’t. matthias was a nazi sorry. the dude in the familiar is a mash up of the darkling & kaz#I looooooooved ninth house bc Alex is SO complex and SO morally gray and darlington was undone by her#and then I read hellbent and. wince. glowing cock line ruined the whole book for me. but also? the pacing was off#oh and I did read king of scars etc and it was like. whatever.#anyway! I find myself really frustrated with most of publishing rn
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