“A Gathering of Shadows” by V.E. Schwab. I asked the boy for this for my birthday, but
apparently he’d already gotten it. My favorite thing is that it’s got a sticker
on the cover saying that it’s Barb’s staff pick.
It’s been probably a year and a half
since I read book 1, and I wonder if that’s why I found the first 350 pages
pretty tough, because I had forgotten any reason I might have liked Lila Bard.
I just found, every time I got to a Lila section, I hated her so much. I really
wanted her to suffer.
“Water for Elephants” by Sarah Gruen. My sister gave me this one because she was done with
it. I found it immensely readable, and while reading the interview at the end I
totally could not guess what the whole biblical parallel to Jacob was, and woke
up in the middle of the night thinking that one particular instance of
redlighting was really convenient for the author (I hadn’t thought this while
reading… so)
“All the Birds in the Sky” by Charlie Jane Anders. I’ve heard so much about this one! It’s very
charming and stylish. I wonder how it will hold up.