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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9528335" data-attributes="member: 7033171">I've got some new stuff from my library waiting list- First it was Red Rising by Pierce Brown. Had waited for long (since September I think), seems very popular, read a lot of good stuff about it. Stopped reading because it was stealthy YA and it showed unfortunately. I have nothing against YA in general but most YA I've read has for my taste a big lack of good prose and deep characters. In this case the prose was stiff and the characters incl. the main character were boring pastiches. Also that the evil caste system is just color coded. The Goldens are over The Reds etc - very uninspired. I read that later it becomes a Hunger Games like with some sort of death game and that was it for me. Apperantly The Will of Many is inspired by Red Rising and I can see it - but as much as I criticized The Will of Many in a earlier post, I liked it much more.- Second it was A Winters Promise by Christelle Dabos, which was recommended me as a cozy winter fantasy. Unfortunately again YA in disguise. The world is cool and I liked the very first scene where the main characters is entering an archive through a mirror, that was a fun description. Unfortunately it goes downhill quite fast. The main characters is a quirky Tumblr girl who is so clumsiness she drops porcelain all the time (2x in one scene) and wears mismatching boots! Also dialogue that you cannot imagine as anything other than a badly acted movie in your head. I still enjoyed the world building, the main character also has an interesting magic ability that she make the history of items to an experience for herself or others. Like touching a weapon draws into a quite intense war scenery. Cool ideas, unfortunately badly written. At that point I spoiled myself to see if this book gets better. I read that she will fall in love with the bad guy she is getting forcefully married to. Hell no, I dropped it.I don't know if I will ever read a YA book that do actually enjoy. I heard good of Six of Crows, I might give that a try. Fortunately I had other books too.- i got Circe by Madeleine Miller back. Read already 60%, but did not managed to finish in time and had to wait a few weeks again to get it back. Now I am almost finished. I liked The Song of Achilles much more, Circe is to episodic in nature for my taste. Although its still good and I really dig this new trend of "feminist interpretations of greek myths" that Song of Achilles started.- Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors after a waiting time of 4 months haha. Very hyped book and I can understand why. But I am a sucker for modern family stories anyway. Loveable cast of characters and very good dialogue. What I love about the prose is that it knows when to indulge in details and when not. Its not details for details sake but always to say something about the characters in the scene. Only a few chapters in, but enjoying it a lot.- Beloved by Toni Morrison. Hard to read book, but very rewarding so far and worth the effort. Hard to read due to the writing itself, but also the content and topics. The prose is not too hard, but the author jumps between timelines and scenes so sudden, it feels very associative and sometimes a bit dreamlike. Sometimes you only realize after two or three sentences that you are in a different scene and time. It also has supernatural elements due to a haunted house but mixes it with the hard reality of slave history in the US. Some REALLY horrible scenes happening. I am only 70 pages in because I read only with half of my usual tempo, but damn its good.</blockquote>

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