#emma törsz

[evenaturtleduck]

Started a new book and I'm having the worst trouble getting into it, not because it's not interesting or I don't like the characters, but there are three POV characters and I like them all and it's so infuriating that I'm a third of the way through and none of them have interacted in any meaningful way (postcards don't count, Esther) and two of them don't yet know that the third exists and I flipped ahead and it's still going to be awhile and it's SO FRUSTRATING.

To be clear this is not a problem with the book--this is a problem with me and my irrational burning insatiable need for characters I like to be friends with each other.

[haliespages]

🏛~ reading update

cr: ink blood sister scribe by emma törsz

last: a botanical daughter by noah medlock - 5🌟

next; heavenbreaker by sara wolf

🍄~ june tbr

the empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo

leech by hiron ennes

the tropic of serpents by marie brennan

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon (reread)

our wives under the sea by julia armfield (reread)

necrobane by daniel m. ford

☕️~ sent arcs

the black hunger by nicolas pullen

the phoenix keeper by s.a. maclean

[evenaturtleduck]

Finished and loved it ❤️ There were certain plot twists that as an experienced reader of books (lol) I saw a mile away but they're tropes I love so I have no actual complaints 😊

(spoilers below!)

Look if a guy has dead parents and was raised by his uncle, 95% of the time his uncle is evil, ok? This is not a bad thing--I love evil uncles getting their comeuppance by the nephews they betrayed.

Also there was some wonderful stuff going on with moms/mom-adjacent people with brilliant plots and schemes to keep their kids safe (including caring about your kids and their safety whether or not they're your biological children and without having to be in any way 'maternal').

Finally the ending was really satisfying in a budding romance + found family kind of way, and I would really love to see all of them actually get to spend an entire book working together instead of just the last third of it. So.... sequel??????

(actually, coming back to this later, I imagine that on a certain level the predicability is deliberate--knowing how stories like this go and seeing the plot twist coming is half the fun--getting to scream at poor Nicholas that no, really, you're in danger! while he remains blissfully unaware)

Started a new book and I'm having the worst trouble getting into it, not because it's not interesting or I don't like the characters, but there are three POV characters and I like them all and it's so infuriating that I'm a third of the way through and none of them have interacted in any meaningful way (postcards don't count, Esther) and two of them don't yet know that the third exists and I flipped ahead and it's still going to be awhile and it's SO FRUSTRATING.

To be clear this is not a problem with the book--this is a problem with me and my irrational burning insatiable need for characters I like to be friends with each other.