November 2018

Les Misérables

At the beginning of this year, my long obsession with the play and book Les Misérables reached a new high which caused me to read the book. I got into contact with the musical via Susan Boyle when she was singing the song on TV, which led to me buying the soundtrack. The second contact was the Anime “The Story of Perrine”, adapted from the book Nobody’s Girl, which I also read at the beginning of this year.

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Review of All Systems Red by Martha Wells

I just finished reading All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells.📚 This was such a good book it reminded of Run Program by Scott Meyer but in a more adult version. Although the main character is not a human you still care for it – and I’m pretty sure it would not like this ;-) It’s a rather short novel. There are further issues, but the first book can stand on its own.

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Review of the Gate of Gods (The Fall of Ile-Rien Trilogy 3)

I just terminated reading The Gate of Gods (The Fall of Ile-Rien Trilogy 3) by Martha Wells.📚 This book was a lot better again compared to the central issue. I was glad not to abandon the series after the second book. This book finishes the story arc and gives a nice conclusion for the characters. I would gladly read more book set in the same universe. There is undoubtedly a lot of potential for good books here.

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Review of The Selection (The Selection Series, Book 1)

I just finished reading The Selection (The Selection Series, Book 1) by Kiera Cass – again.📚 This series is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. It’s not high-quality prose, but I still like it, and I think this is now the third or fourth time I read this book, which makes it onto the third place of the most reread books (this is an excellent topic to write about – need to take a note of it).

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Review The Ships of Air (The Fall of Ile-Rien Trilogy Book 2)

Last week I finished reading The Ships of Air (The Fall of Ile-Rien Trilogy Book 2) by Martha Wells.📚 The second book starts, where the story in book one ended. The first half of this book could not deliver on the high expectations I had after reading the first issue. The story was dragging along most of the time, and there was no sense of progress. I see that this is quite a different way to manage long journeys in books, instead of just ignoring the time it takes to get from a to b.

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