June was definitely a low month for me reading wise. But I feel the quality was better. I’m happy to say I only read one young adult book.
Devices and Desires by K.J. Parker: This book to up the majority of my month. But dang, was it good. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time trying to figure out what the end game was for one of the main characters. Once I completed this book, I immediately ordered the other two books in the trilogy and plan on reading those soon. This book does have quite a bit of technical jargon, but I didn’t mind it at all. I’ve even read some reviews that say it reads like a textbook. I wish I would of had those people’s textbooks in school! I loved reading about how several of the characters viewed human nature and how they used it to their advantage or had certain “rules” built into their psyche, they didn’t know any other way to act.
Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal: This is the second book in the series (see my review of book 1 here). It picks up right after book one. This one suffers the same cliches that the first one does. The main character is pretty much super girl but thinks she isn’t good at anything, except maybe glamour and that is just because she has worked hard at it. And of course she isn’t pretty enough. Then, she isn’t even able to glamour through most of the book because she became pregnant. What drove me crazy is that she was like OMG I’m pregnant! Duh, if you have sex with your husband, that is likely to happen *facepalm* Anyways, I did enjoy the portions of the book that dealt with Napoleon and how he affected the countryside.
The Fold by Peter Clines: I liked this book, with some reservations. Read my full review here.
What have you read recently?
These sound like interesting reads! I’ll have to pick them up!
You will have to let me know what you think!
Did you read The Martian, and if so was Devices and Desires techy like that, where I could skim over a lot of techy stuff and still get the gist of the story?
I haven’t read The Martian (yet!), but you can definitely skim the technical stuff. It is mainly in one POV, so it doesn’t consume the whole book.
Devices and Desires looks really interesting. I added that and The Fold to my list. I’m a fan of longer books that really build a world and give background info.
You would definitely like D & D then!
There’s nothing wrong with reading lots of YA. In fact, much of the YA I’ve read is better than actual adult books!
There definitely isn’t anything wrong with YA, I just got burned out on not the best books.
Agree with Jana, love me some YA!
Me too! But I need to find some good ones to read next.
Devices and Desires sounds interesting. Going to take a look.
It definitely is!
Ditto what Jana and Lisa said. I’m in my 40s and still love YA books!
Oh, I do too, I just need to find better ones 🙂
i love YA books! i started with Wonder and it just went on from there 🙂 a little embarassing for me though because when i go to the library, you see me hunting around in the children’s section for them LOL
Ha! I’ve done that before too. Sort of awkward, but totally worth it!
Devices & Desires and The Fold sound pretty interesting. I feel like I need more sci-fyi in the mix, I’ve been too mainstream with my reading 🙂
Sci-fi certainly gets you out of the regular mainstream world 🙂