Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my channel and welcome to another weekly
wrap up. This one is for the 16th through the 22nd of July and this week I read a
total of seven books and 3,071 pages. The first book I finished this week is a
reread and that is Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine, which is the first book in
the Great Library series. I talked a little bit about the third book in this
series last week sometime in one of the videos that I did last week, I don't know,
because I was desperate to read the third book in the series and I wanted to
reread the first two before I got to that one. So obviously I picked this
one up and reread it. The gist of this series is that the Great Library of
Alexandria was never destroyed and now controls all access to
information. So the library is basically holding technology back because there is
one copy of every book in the world and they hold that one copy. And so people
can only access what they deem appropriate. So that's kind of the setup
for this world. It's a little bit steampunk, it's a little bit fantasy, but
it's predominantly a dystopian series. And the main character of the story is Jess
Brightwell, a 17 year old boy whose family are illegal book dealers and so
his father has basically said to him "You're 17, you need to start pulling your
weight in the family business. I've arranged for you to go and train with
the Library and become a librarian so that you can, like, you know, slip us stuff
from the inside" effectively. So I really really love this series. The characters
are wonderful, the concept is amazing and the Library is such an incredible and such a
creeptastic entity. Like, it's just done so incredibly well. It's a very diverse
series - there are people of colour, there are LGBTQIA characters, one of the
predominant characters that Jess becomes friends with is hijabi and I just... I
just love this series and these characters in this world so so much. I
love this one a lot every time I read it and I gave it 5 stars.
Again. The second book that I finished this week sadly was a DNF and that is
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, which is her first book and it
was translated from Spanish by...somebody or other. It was translated by Magda
Bogin. I was really excited to read this one because I've really liked what I've
read of Isabel Allende in the past, and one of her other books that I've now
forgotten the name of... What the hell is it called?? Um.
Of Love and Shadows! I studied that in high school for Literature and really
really enjoyed that. So I was very very excited to read her first book and
unfortunately this one fell, like, really really flat for me. I just... I did not
particularly like the story. It's a very male-dominated story, it is a family saga
set in Chile over the course of about a hundred years, I think? It follows four
generations and I only made it about 80 pages or so into the story before I was
like "You know what? I'm done with this book" because it features an adult male
character whose fiancee dies under tragic circumstances and the way that he
processes his grief about her death is basically to, like, go off and decide that
he's going to, you know, sort out the family estate and that he's going to, in
the process of doing this, fuck every teenage girl that he basically comes
across. And the first teenage girl that he takes and he fucks repeatedly - pretty
much against her will - she ends up getting pregnant and, like, the second
that she's pregnant he's like "Ew, no. I want nothing to do with you", goes out,
finds another, like, 13-15 year old girl to fuck and the process repeats
itself and I was like "You know what, I know this is a tiny tiny part of the
story but I just I just don't want to read this anymore." So I gave up. The third
book I finished this week is Web of Darkness by Bali Rai. This is a YA
thriller, I guess, and it follows the story of a girl named Lily
growing up in Leicester in the UK - which is amusing to me because I did Study
Abroad there and so I'm like "Oh, I know this place, I know this place, I know this
place, that's really cool." So anyway, Lily gets a Facebook friend request one day
from this guy who claims to be a model in New York and they start talking
online and they become, like, BFFs or whatever and then people at her school
start dying. So this girl that she was friends with when she was a kid, who has
been bullied relentlessly for, like, all of high school, she apparently commits suicide
and then somebody else dies under similar circumstances and it starts to
look like maybe there is more going on here. And basically, it's kind of a giant
PSA about, like, Internet safety and Internet security, but not done in quite
as blatant away as something like Risk by Fleur Ferris. So I did enjoy this book.
I did like the writing, I did like the story, I loved the fact
that Lily is an Indian teenager growing up in Leicester because, like, Leicester has -
at least when I was there - had at the biggest Indian population in the UK so,
like, that just it works really well. I had two problems with this book. One is the
almost constant fat shaming. Lily is constantly referring to herself and
being referred to as fat and talking about her thunder thighs and how big her
arse is and how no boys like her because she's so incredibly fat and then she
drops into the story that she's a UK size 12 and, like, that's an Australian 10
and a US eight and I'm like "I'm sorry, that is *not* fat." And that was the point in
the story where I was like "Yeah. a dude wrote this book and I can really tell
that a dude wrote this book." So I had an issue with that. I also found the story
quite predictable to be honest. There were just...yeah, I guessed who the villains
were pretty early on in the piece. It just...there was just something about it
that I was like "Yeah, I know where this going" and I was right. There were a few
little red herrings along the way, but I was like "No, that seems way too obvious". So I
ended up I liked this one it but I didn't love it. There are a lot of trigger
warnings in this book, check my Goodreads review for details of those. But yeah, I
liked this one but I didn't love it and I gave it 3 stars. The fourth book I
finished this week is another reread and that is Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine,
which is the second book in the Great Library series. This one picks up pretty
much immediately where the first book leaves off. In this one, Jess and his friends
have, like, graduated and joined the Library as employees and it's kind of
them, you know, dealing with that transition in life and then something
goes wrong and they have to flee Alexandria. So I don't like this book
*quite* as much as I loved the first one. I still really really enjoyed it, I
still gave it 5 stars. I did actually bump it up from 4.5 to 5 stars on reread.
There's a lot going on in this book. I still really really love the characters.
I love how much more we learn about some of the more, kind of, adult characters in
the story and how much more we learn about the world. And I feel like there's
not much character development for Jess in this book but for everybody else
there's quite a lot going on there. So I love this book a lot. I gave it 5
stars. I like...I just love this series to death. It's great.
Please read it. Book number five this week is Anything You Can Do by
RS Grey. This is billed as a romantic comedy and I actually downloaded this
one because Chelsea from ChelseaDollingReads recommended that I pick this one up
for the challenge for the Read Your E-Reader readathon.
There is a challenge about reading a sizzling hot romance. She was like "Oh,
read that one!" And so I downloaded a couple of the things that she and
Chelsea the Reading Outlaw recommended, and I just... I felt in the need for
something, like, you know, light and fluffy and quick so I picked this one up on
Thursday afternoon on my way home from work and I finished on Thursday night.
It's the story of a 28 year old woman named Daisy who returns to her hometown
after qualifying as a doctor because the local GP is looking at retiring and
she's like "Hey, I'd like to take over your practice!" Except that it turns out
that she is in competition for taking over that practice with basically the guy
that she's been in competition with her entire life. Like, they were born four
hours apart on the same day and they've been in competition ever since and of
course this is a hate to love story. And it was, like, it was completely ridiculous
but it was also a hell of a fun. Like, I laughed a lot reading this book.
It's really fun, the dynamic between the characters was really great. I did kind
of want to punch Daisy a couple of times because I'm like "Girl, how fucking
stupid are you??" But at the same time, this was just really fun and ridiculous and fluffy and
adorable and I kind of teared up a little bit
reading the epilogue. But yeah. It was silly
but it was great and I gave it 4 stars. Next up this week is yet another
book by Rachel Caine and that is Ash and Quill, which is the third book in the
Great Library series. I was really really excited to read this one because I
actually thought this series was a trilogy and that this was going to be,
like, the end to everything. And then just before I started reading this, someone was
like "You know that's a five book series now right?" And I was like "The fuck you
say??" And I was equal parts, like, ecstatic about that and also incredibly pissed
off because, like, I get two more books!! But I have to get two more books to find
out how it ends... Like, I just...I'm not okay with that but I'm also super okay with
that. Yeah, I don't quite know how to process this yet. Anyway, this is the
third book. It picks up exactly where the second book leaves off. I really love
this one. We get to see a lot more of this world and of how the
Library pushes back against those who rebel against its power and it was just
really really interesting. There is some great character development in this one,
I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed this. I loved some of the plot twists that
happen in the story, particularly right at the end there is, like, a *big* plot twist
and, like, holy shit I need the fourth book immediately give it to me now. And
yet I have to wait like a year for that book to come out. I don't know how I'm
going to cope. Anyway, this was great. I gave this one 5 stars as well. And
the final book that I finished this week is yet another reread and that is Ice
Station by Matthew Reilly. This book is completely ridiculous. It's like 75%
suspension of disbelief because literally nothing that happens in this
book could happen. So basically there is a scientific research station in
Antarctica and they do a dive to this ice cave. And in the ice cave they find
what they think is a spaceship. And so this team of Marines gets dispatched to
Wilkes Ice Station to protect the scientists and also this big discovery
thing. And then all hell breaks loose and there is mayhem involving, like, evil
French people and killer whales and obviously the spaceship and, like, moles
on their team and it's just ridiculous. It's kind of like reading an action
movie. It's very very fast-paced, it's action-packed,
there is like no character development whatsoever because it's just 100% plot,
and somehow I still really love it. Like, I don't know what it is. I think I really
really like the main character, Shane Schofield. Like, he's a Marine Lieutenant,
Commander, something? I don't know. He's a unit captain person thing. And I
really like the fact that, you know, he's not the hero who doesn't get injured in
any way or who slides through everything. I mean, yes he does survive, like, every
single situation (because this is the first book in a series so, like, very
minor spoilers that he survives) But, you know, he...he makes it out of every
situation but he doesn't come out of it completely unscathed and I think that's
what I like about him as a character. So yeah, this... this is completely ridiculous.
But it's a lot of fun and I've read it like four thousand times now. So it's
dumb but it's great and I gave 4 stars. So there you have it, friends. That is
all the books that I finished this week. If you have read any of these and have
thoughts on them, please let me know it down in the comments. I would love to
talk about them with you. Thank you guys so much for watching. I love all your faces and
I'll see you on Wednesday. Bye guys.
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