More Books!
Playing a little catch-up on my recently-read books, since I can't seem to write a journal entry to save someone else's life...
Book 10 of 2014:
Rain Girl, by Gabi Kreslehner, translated by Lee Chadeayne -- My Kindle First selection for August. Maybe it was some kind of culture clash. Maybe something got lost in the translation. Whatever it was, this Austrian "thriller" about a detective's search for a teenage girl's killer left me wanting something else. Some of the passages seemed to expect the reader to know things we couldn't possibly... and some just seemed to be vague for the sake of vagueness. Whatever it was, I tried to like this book (and partly succeeded), but I felt like I got left high and dry by the end. (PUN!)
Book 11 of 2014:
Grip of the Shadow Plague, by Brandon Mull -- Book 3 of the Fablehaven series. This one took me about 8 months to read, in part because of where it was read and in part because I didn't always pick it up. These books (or maybe it's just this author?) are strange for me. I want to know what happens, but I have a really hard time getting into them. It's happened with all three of them, and I even read the first on my Kindle! I intend to finish the series (there are a total of five books), but I'm not in a great hurry. The latest 39 Clues set will precede the next Fablehaven book.
Book 12 of 2014:
Pines, by Blake Crouch -- Kindle Lending Library selection for August. This was book one of a trilogy (and the cover blurb promises that it is soon to be a FOX TV event). It's about a secret service agent who wakes up in the sleepy town of Wayward Pines, Idaho, where things aren't as idyllic and picturesque as they seem. Although there are some literary tics the author uses that got on my nerves in spots, I confess I am eager to read the second book. Alas, it will have to wait for October. My September Lending Library choice (and what I'm currently reading) is the precursor to my September Kindle First book. Ye gods, but I love being a Prime member!
And here's something scary: After two days of reading the book I'm on, I'm already 50% done. (Of course, I think it's only about 200 pages... so not as impressive as it sounds. Then again, a 300-page book has taken me over a month to read in the past. Mayhap I'll choose to be impressed after all.)
I'll let you know what I think when I'm done.
(P.S. I made my 2014 Goodreads Reading Challenge goal and have bumped the goal up to 14 books.)