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ApparentParadox

ApparentParadox@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 1 year, 11 months ago

GWM living in Oregon.I used to love books that would really stretch me, but lately I've needed more solace from the books that I read.

My ratings are as follows: * 5 stars: it's truly a great book, and I'll want to re-read it again and again. * 4 stars: it's a good book, and I enjoyed reading it. I'll probably re-read it. * 3 stars: It's a fine book, just not special. I may re-read it if I'm looking to just relax and not have to think, but I would probably pick up a new book instead. * 2 stars: I finished it, but might have given up if I were in a different mood. * 1 star: I didn't enjoy the book and probably didn't finish it. I wouldn't blanketly recommend against it, because it might speak to someone else.

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Magda Alexander: Murder at Westminster (2022, Hearts Afire Publishing)

Amateur sleuth Kitty Worthington once more jumps into the fray to nab the wily murderer …

Enjoyable read

Content warning I wish that the murder had happened for a different reason -- because the duke had harmed his father.

Nothing particularly new, but some good reminders

Although this is somewhat a book about practicing the piano, it will apply to many other instruments as well. It's only 32 pages, so a quick read. Nothing that hasn't been said in other books on practicing, but it's always good to have a reminder.

I'm not in the mood for this book right now. It's a bit too dark for me at this time. The writing is fine (which actually makes it "worse" in that it's easier to imagine the bad guys).

reviewed The Necromancer's War by SJ Himes (The Beacon Hill Sorcerer, #7)

Not as good as the others in the series

Content warning It looks like the author introduced who the character who will become Cian's love interest. I was hoping that it would have been a radiant energy mage both to wrap up one loose end and because a radiant energy would play well against Cian.

I stopped after a couple of chapters. I didn't like the main character, I didn't like the ghosts. Maybe it would have gotten better, but there wasn't enough in the first few chapters to make me want to put in the effort.

OK, but I didn't really care about the characters

Content warning It bugs me when a character has some secret that is supposedly incredibly important, but we don't find out enough in the first book to know whether we actually care about what that secret is.

Nice, but nothing special

It was hard for me to really understand the main character's motivation. She throws herself into other people's problems but it's not really clear why (other than an off-hand reference to her taking care of people).

Some of the resolution stuff was a bit pat, but that's kind of to be expected with a light read like this.

Some stories were OK, I skipped a bunch, and then just wasn't in the mood.