Book Logging
Apr. 5th, 2013 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckGidwitz, Adam. A Tale Dark & Grimm - Hansel and Gretel wander through multiple fairy tales after they leave home. I recognized most of the stories, and they were all as bloody as the source stories. The narrator kept breaking in and warning the reader that things were going to get worse. I'm not entirely sure I enjoyed this one. I'm not sure I didn't, though. It interested me, at least. I will probably read the author's other, similar book.
Greenwood, Kerry. Devil's Food - This time the central mystery is the fact that Corinna's father has disappeared. She has a very difficult relationship with her parents (bad enough that she'd really rather have no relationship at all). I was more interested in the continuing characters than I was in the mystery. I want very much to try one of Jason's muffins.
Saga v.1 - I don't think I'll be reading more of this. The story made an impression on me, but it wasn't a positive one. It wasn't a world that appealed to me (I don't think it's meant to), and I never connected with the characters. The level of violence was too high for me.
Books started but not finished:
Boniface, William. The Hero Revealed - I read about half of this, reading from both ends toward the middle. I didn't hate it, but it's due back at the library, and I haven't felt any motivation to finish it (and I couldn't renew it anyway. Somebody else wants it). This one is a superhero story set in a place where everybody but the main character has some sort of superpower.
Martin, Ann. The Doll People - I kept picking holes in the setting of this one. I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to keep reading. I think that was the reason I didn't care about the characters and their adventures.
McMann, Lisa. The Unwanteds - I was doing pretty well with this book, enjoying it even. Then I put it down over night and found myself picking holes in the world building. Some of my difficulties can be handwaved away with 'because magic,' but the magic isn't really explained within the story. It's just there. I wonder where the magical land gets its food. I wonder where families live in the magical land. There must be some. Thirteen year olds have been coming here for decades and growing up. I don't think they've all lived alone and celibate (some of this wouldn't come up because this is a kids' book but still). The dystopia part of the world was dysfunctional past believing, and I kept wondering how details worked-- The leaders eat beef at one point, and it's presented as normal, but the place isn't all that big. How do they have the resources to raise enough cattle to supply that?
O'Connor, Barbara. The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester - I barely started this book. I wasn't in the mood for a boy's adventure, and the voice of the book didn't capture me. I think a big part of it was that I wasn't willing to be sympathetic to the main character's very real problems. They just seemed minor, and I could see how they were going to be resolved over the course of the book.
Greenwood, Kerry. Devil's Food - This time the central mystery is the fact that Corinna's father has disappeared. She has a very difficult relationship with her parents (bad enough that she'd really rather have no relationship at all). I was more interested in the continuing characters than I was in the mystery. I want very much to try one of Jason's muffins.
Saga v.1 - I don't think I'll be reading more of this. The story made an impression on me, but it wasn't a positive one. It wasn't a world that appealed to me (I don't think it's meant to), and I never connected with the characters. The level of violence was too high for me.
Books started but not finished:
Boniface, William. The Hero Revealed - I read about half of this, reading from both ends toward the middle. I didn't hate it, but it's due back at the library, and I haven't felt any motivation to finish it (and I couldn't renew it anyway. Somebody else wants it). This one is a superhero story set in a place where everybody but the main character has some sort of superpower.
Martin, Ann. The Doll People - I kept picking holes in the setting of this one. I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to keep reading. I think that was the reason I didn't care about the characters and their adventures.
McMann, Lisa. The Unwanteds - I was doing pretty well with this book, enjoying it even. Then I put it down over night and found myself picking holes in the world building. Some of my difficulties can be handwaved away with 'because magic,' but the magic isn't really explained within the story. It's just there. I wonder where the magical land gets its food. I wonder where families live in the magical land. There must be some. Thirteen year olds have been coming here for decades and growing up. I don't think they've all lived alone and celibate (some of this wouldn't come up because this is a kids' book but still). The dystopia part of the world was dysfunctional past believing, and I kept wondering how details worked-- The leaders eat beef at one point, and it's presented as normal, but the place isn't all that big. How do they have the resources to raise enough cattle to supply that?
O'Connor, Barbara. The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester - I barely started this book. I wasn't in the mood for a boy's adventure, and the voice of the book didn't capture me. I think a big part of it was that I wasn't willing to be sympathetic to the main character's very real problems. They just seemed minor, and I could see how they were going to be resolved over the course of the book.
