I just finished the silverblood promise, and the best compliment i can give it is that ill read the 2nd at some point. It was breezy and fast paced, but didnt really live up to its promises of twists and intrigue. Found the story pretty straightforward in the end, and some characters underveloped, but im going to give it the benefit of the doubt that more will be revealed. I guess dcc8 and then strength of the few next. Maybe ive got another short one in my library till then.
Red Rising - 8/10. Book 2 of 2026…life has been busy. I enjoyed this, but I wish more time was spent with certain characters. There were a lot of characters and not many were detailed. Small criticism though! I didn’t get the Hunger Games comparison I’ve seen people mention until I got about a third of the way through, but there’s still major differences. I plan on reading a stand-alone book next, but I already have Golden Son on my TBR pile for the book after.
I just snagged The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan at the library this morning - it's a supernatural historical fantasy about an immortal guy with a demon inside his head who hunted The Beast of Gévaudan twenty years before with his estranged lover, now a baron who has sent his son to call on him to fulfill his prior oath because The Beast has returned and is killing again I'm almost a hundred pages in and it's really really great so far
My only issue with red riding is his writing style seems very young adult and sometimes cringey to me.
it's not straight horror, but it has a lot of horror elements, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, but Ordinary Monsters is an incredible book and I absolutely loved the audiobook narrator's voice. thought it was perfect for the gothic setting. the only other book that jumps to mind for me would be Light by M. John Harrison - much more heady sci-fi than horror, but I remember there being one big horror-ish element that was pretty central to the story, and I have the audiobook of it and I liked the narrator a lot
Thanks! Renting Ordinary Monsters through Libby and put a hold on the other. Was listening to horrorstor last night. also open to normal sci-fi of course.
I couldn’t help myself from grabbing Mark Z Danielewski’s new 1200 page monster Tom’s Crossing…at the worst time with Parade of Horribles and a new Children of Time
I put in for each of these books a long time ago thru my library, and they both just showed up on the same day, so I gotta get to reading so I can finish them both in time