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?
I finished All Fall Down, the second in Ellie Marney’s Circus Hearts series. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the first one, but I still gave it four stars. I did really like the love interest. He just really had it together. He was attractive and smart and had a good job and everything. I guess this is the nice thing about reading about 19 to 22-year-olds rather than 16-year-olds.
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel picked up enough in the last third that I gave it three stars rather than two, but I was still annoyed that a lot of it was quite lecturey. I am all for political books, but I prefer the politics to be woven into the story, rather than characters just having rants about the state of the world today.
After that, I read an ARC of Claw the System: Poems from the Cat Uprising by Francesco Marciuliano. I didn’t find this as funny as I had hoped, but there were still some laugh-out-loud moments and some very entertaining photos of cats throughout.
Click the titles to read my reviews of Caraval by Stephanie Garber, My Whole Truth by Mischa Thrace, All Fall Down by Ellie Marney and Claw the System by Francesco Marciuliano.
What are you currently reading?
What are you reading this week? 🙂
I expect to finish my ARC of Unwritten by Tara Gilboy in the next couple of days. This wasn’t quite what I expected and to my adult reader brain, seems a bit heavy-handed in its message, but it would probably not be quite so to an actual MG-age reader.
On audio, I am listening to The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor. I have a really good feeling about this one. Eleven years ago, I based my Year 12 individual drama performance on the story of the Cottingley fairies, and I’ve had an interest in them ever since. And I think this book takes the “the photos might be fake but the fairies might still be real” angle, which is how I feel about it, too.
I’m also about 100 pages into Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman, but I’ve put it on hold a little until I get through some more ARCs.
What do you think you’ll read next?
I have an ARC of The Confectioner’s Guild by Claire Luana. I have a thing for baking witchcraft in urban fantasy. Possibly it’s the covers that are good enough to eat combined with drool-worthy descriptions. Also this one also has murder, which is always enjoyable in fiction form.
What are you reading this week? 🙂
A Keyboard and an Open Mind 
I’m reading Jane Carl’s Just A Girl. A historical fictional story on Princess Elizabeth. First book in a new trilogy
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I tend to avoid MG fiction, not because I don’t want to read it, but because I never feel qualified to review it. I find it so hard to judge how it would read for the target audience.
You do have me curious about the Circus Hearts series, although with the size of my TBR who knows when I’d ever find time to read it.
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The Cottingley Secret has piqued my interest. Enjoy your books, and thanks for sharing. Here’s MY WWW POST
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I agree, Only Human was a bit of a disappointment. Still liked the first book better.
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I enjoy middle grade books best when they speak on multiple levels. I have to read Claw The System. Even if it is only laugh out loud once I could use the laughs! Here is my WWW: https://silverbuttonbooks.com/2018/10/10/www-wednesday-october-10-2018/
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Good to hear you were still mostly able to enjoy Claw The System! I loved the cat photos and there were quite some funny bits, although I agree I thought it would be funnier as a whole.
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SAME on Only Human. I thought I was the only one who didn’t like the third book as much as the rest of the series. It ruined it honestly. I was so annoyed through the whole thing. Here’s my WWW: https://litlistening.com/2018/10/10/www-wednesday-weekly-wrap-up-4/
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