It’s time for WWW Wednesday! This blog hop is hosted by Sam over at A World Of Words. Link up with us by commenting on Sam’s post for this week, and just answer the three questions.
What have you recently finished reading?
A pretty good reading week this week! I finished The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Morena-Garcia. This was nearly a four-star read but became a 3.5 in the last quarter. It was really moving along and I was really involved and then it just sort of slowed down. Review here.
Then I read Fake Geek Girl and Unmagical Boy Story by Tansy Rayner Roberts, which are part of the Belladonna University series. It’s basically about a bunch of Australian university students who are also nerdy and into fandom and that sort of thing but also have certain magic abilities. The university is divided into Real (magical) and Unreal (non-magical) campuses. These are really short (like, short novella length) and really enjoyable. The third is coming out soon and I’m pretty sure I will read it. I’ll probably review these two together since they were so short.
I also posted my review of Garth Nix’s Frogkisser! this week. It is posted here.
What are you currently reading?
At the time of writing this post (Tuesday evening), I am about 150 pages from the end of The Foretelling of Georgie Spider by Ambelin Kwaymullina. I thought the first two books in this series were fine (3 stars) but this one hasn’t grabbed me. Still, it will be nice to have completed a series.
Still going with The Asylum by Johan Theorin on audio. This is one of those thrillers were things are revealed to the reader gradually, but in order to keep the reader in the dark, the characters act like they didn’t already know about certain things. Which makes no sense. But I’m about 65% of the way through and I have some driving to do over the next few nights so I should get a decent amount listened to.
What do you think you’ll read next?
I thought I would try to read Blood Guilt by Lindy Cameron next. This will be my second LGBTI* read for the Australian Women Writer’s Challenge and will mean I will have finished the diversity challenge I set for myself within the regular challenge this year. And it also gives me enough time that if I don’t like it, I can find a different title (which is where I failed last year by leaving my second LGBTI* read until the week after Christmas, and then not being into it).
What are you reading this week? 🙂
P.S. If you feel so inclined, head on over to my writing blog, Letting the Voices Out, where I’ve shared an excerpt from my current WIP today.
A Keyboard and an Open Mind 
I Just read your review of The beautiful ones and I think I want to read it. 🙂 🙂
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I hope you enjoy it!
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Thank you. 🙂
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Hmm I think the Asylum would drive me nuts. I really don’t like when characters pretend not to know what they do. It’s just nonsensical and I think bad writing.
I am still a bit tempted by The Beautiful Ones but don’t think it’s one I’ll be rushing to read.
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Yeah, it was kind of irritating. I finished it last night and I think the ending was supposed to make me go “Oh, no! After all that!” and I was just left thinking, “Eh, really? That’s the punchline?” So that was a bit unsatisfying. Not my favourite thriller.
Yeah, The Beautiful Ones was fine but I don’t know if I would have stayed with it had it not been an ARC.
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I’m still drawn to that Georgie Spider book…and The Asylum. Enjoy, and thanks for sharing. Thanks for visiting my blog.
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