Up until now, I've been pretty lucky with the books I have read recently. I think I've got to the point where I'm pretty savvy with my book buying. I only make a slip every so often.
The reason I'm writing this post, is that I may have given the impression that I love every book I read, or I'm only blogging about books that I love. The books I'm writing about are the ones I'm reading. If I pick up a book that I don't like, I'm gonna write about it. And I've just read one I didn't really get on with.
Saying that, I hope by now people have got an idea of the books I like. If you like the books I like you may want to bear my opinion in mind, more than if you don't. So when you read my review of a book I don't like - that's my personal taste. You may love the author, or the style. But, for whatever reason it just didn't work for me.
So brace yourselves. :)
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If you haven't read Holly Lisle, you may want to try her. She and Ms. Viehl often comment on each other's books, and sometimes write blurbs for the other.
I have read and would suggest any/all of the following, depending on whether the back cover blurbs interest you:
NIGHT ECHOES
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
GLENRAVEN (co-written with Marian Zimmer-Bradley)
Also, I do the same thing with book reviews. And yet if you look at the reviews I do, I usually post glowing - or at least nice - comments. I guess I just don't have the time to read books whose synopses don't sound like ones I want to read at the moment.
I started to read one of her (Holly Lisle) series but couldn't get into it. It was called The Secret Texts. I think because I wanted the story with the lady who was turning into a dragon/demon/lizard (been a while since I read it and I can't remember which it was) to go in a different direction to what it was. I only read the first two. But I will check out your recommendations. :)
This book kind of slipped under my radar. There was a lot of hype about it and I admit I didn't check it out as thoroughly as I should have done. I could tell from reading the first couple of pages that I wasn't going to get on with it, but after I'd bought it I thought I better make a darn good effort to read the thing.
I read the first two Secret Text books, but could never find the third. And then I lost the first book qhwn I moved back from university and decided to sell the second. I loved Diplomacy of Wolves (the first) but found the second one (Vengeance of Dragons?) nowhere near as compelling.
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