#32: The Brothers McKay by Craig Johnson. Greg is in the midst of reading this one, and he’s better than I am at summarizing, so I’ll leave it to him in his books thread. I’ll just say that I always enjoy watching what weird circumstances Sheriff Walt manages to find himself having to survive, and that my favorite character in this story was Borax, the mule.
#33: White Silence and #34: Dark Light, both by Jodi Taylor. I’ve read a couple of Jodi Taylor’s other series and I’m eating this one up with a spoon. I don’t know what it is about her style of writing that makes me devour it, but I’m hardly conscious of time passing while I read her books. I start one, and the next thing I know it’s a couple hours and a few hundred pages later than it was a moment ago. In this series, her heroine is aware she has abilities that are different from “normal” people and she does her best to ignore and suppress them by being as blah, ordinary, and boring as possible in behavior, appearance, and routine. The story begins after her husband dies and she discovers that pretty much everyone she knows, including her dead husband, were keeping a very close eye on her and her potential abilities. No one — including the heroine — knows for sure what she’s capable of, and until late in the 2nd book, she really doesn’t want to know. If I didn’t have to work tomorrow, I’d undoubtedly start the next book in the series right now.
I just love a story where you can’t wait to find out what happens next.
#33: White Silence and #34: Dark Light, both by Jodi Taylor. I’ve read a couple of Jodi Taylor’s other series and I’m eating this one up with a spoon. I don’t know what it is about her style of writing that makes me devour it, but I’m hardly conscious of time passing while I read her books. I start one, and the next thing I know it’s a couple hours and a few hundred pages later than it was a moment ago. In this series, her heroine is aware she has abilities that are different from “normal” people and she does her best to ignore and suppress them by being as blah, ordinary, and boring as possible in behavior, appearance, and routine. The story begins after her husband dies and she discovers that pretty much everyone she knows, including her dead husband, were keeping a very close eye on her and her potential abilities. No one — including the heroine — knows for sure what she’s capable of, and until late in the 2nd book, she really doesn’t want to know. If I didn’t have to work tomorrow, I’d undoubtedly start the next book in the series right now.
I just love a story where you can’t wait to find out what happens next.
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