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Oh, right, I got to blackout on the Reading Bingo card! :D

( Bingo! )

56. Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire #3) -- Well! So this is interesting. I picked up this series because I was really intrigued by ikel89 post and alenky_cveto4ek's comments therein. And now that I'm done with the trilogy, I'm really glad that I did, because I enjoyed the reading experience quite a lot, and these are books that will stay with me, and ( Read more... )

36. Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels #3) -- so apparently the claim is, the series gets good at book 3. I can see why people say that, because this was the first book in the series that did not annoy me in some new way (except that the romance tropes it employs do still annoy me -- the whole "I want him but he's only pretending to want me ( Read more... )

16. Sarah Rees Brennan, Untold (Lynburn Legacy #2) -- so I read the first one and was unsold on... well, everything, mostly -- the main characters, the love story, the odd resemblance to the much stronger Demon's Lexicon. This one gave me an even weirder impression -- half the time it felt like I was reading Cassie Clare and half the time like I ( Read more... )

10. Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
11. Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #3 and #4) -- so I'm going to talk about these together, because it really feels like one book broken in two, given the way Iron Kissed ends. ( BIG SPOILERS for both books )