🔥 FOUR NEW FAVES, FOUR FOR THE TRASH!! 🗑️ | APRIL READING WRAP-UP | Literary Diversions
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2023
- In which I wrap up two entire reading months with an equal amount of wins to fails…!
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Mishearing beads as beets produced some interesting interesting mental imagery of that magic system.
So glad to hear such great things about Emily Wilde! It’s on my shelf and that sounds fantastic!🧚
I love your enthusiasm, and Emily Wilde's Encycopaedia of Faeries sounds amazing. I have added it to my TBR list. I read books with my lovely spouse John every evening. It's fun to read books together and then talk about them.
🧚🏽♂️🧚🏻♀️ The Cloisters was so good.
Janice Hallett is bringing out A Christmas Appeal with some of the people from The Appeal
for a dark academia that actually engages with the subject matter the characters are studying, try David Hoppen's The Orchard!! that book really deserves more attention 😁
🧚♀ Thrilled to see you also loved Emily Wilde to pieces and vindicated to see someone else not love Iron Widow (performative hits the nail on the head) but I must say I'm, like, comically baffled to see anyone like anything at all about The Cloisters. For me, it's like how you felt about The Companion: great premise, give it to someone else. I thought the writing was flat and the plot pointless and the villain obvious, but hey! Very glad you got to enjoy that sensational cover and I don't begrudge you it lol. I'll be reading that Lady Trent series IMMEDIATELY on my way to get it ASAP thank you kindly for the rec
When I heard the plot of Iron Widow, I was like nope sounds to much like Pacific Rim to me. So I didn't even bother picking it up. 🧚🏻♂
Emily and her fairies are waiting for me ❤
I'm currently reading The Cloisters, and I'm so happy to hear you loved it! I'm very excited to hear a glowing review! I also just bought Alperton Angels earlier this week!
you are such a cute and positive person! so fun to watch you
🧚🏻♂️ I am so jealous of how fast of a reader you are 💜 love every video 😃
🧚♀ Loved this video. Added two of these to my TBR. Thank you for the recommendations!
I absolutely loved The Cloisters! Disappointing about Iron Widow 😢 You are the reason I picked up A Natural History of Dragons and I loved it! I will definitely be picking up Emily Wilde ❤🧚♀️
Initially I was really excited for "The Cloisters" but then all those mixed reviews came in. After watching your review however, I feel reaffirmed that I will love this book a lot so it climbed up my tbr again. I must say though that after your immense enthusiasm for "Emily Wilde" I have to prioritize that one for this month. 😄🧚♀
I agree with you on Six stories. It starts out promising but the twist is just too incredible.
I really struggled with the Laura Bates and now I can’t remember why! 🧚
I loved Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries and had the same concerns before :D
I was excited about Iron widow and now I am not sure... great video!🧚♀️
Janice Hallet is releasing a Christmas book. It's called the Christmas Appeal
You don't even need to explain the plot to me, if you say either Emily Blunt or Emma Thompson should play the MC I'm sold 👌🧚♂️🧚♀️
OMG I have loved this video, I also loved The Cloisters, The Appleton Angel's and Emily Wilde having read them all in the last couple of months 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️
SO MUCH FUN, as usual!🧚🏿 I confess I did enjoy Helm of Midnight, but there's no getting around the fact that the speaking beads were EXTREMELY ridiculous. Also, a relief to hear from someone else who didn't click with Iron Widow!
Have you taken a look at Saint Death's Daughter by CSE Cooney? Or really just anything by her - what you said about descriptive prose, hers is hands-down the BEST. She writes really beautiful fantasy that tends to also be delightfully strange.
🧚 Adding the Emily Wilde book 🧚 I loved the Alperton Angels too...but I also loved all the six stories books so far. Maybe because I think of them as a podcast? The first one was my least favourite but this series just gets better and better - love these! :)
Thank you Lianne. You videos are always the best. Love and hugs to you and Harry.💗🌷💗🌷💗
Loved Emily Wilde!! Buuuut also loved Iron Widow. 😅
Am now so excited to get to Emily Wilde 🧚 ...Also I think in this you described exactly what I dislike about kick-ass female protagonists in YA!
Emily Wilde is the first book in years that I bought without reading it via the library first. I loved it and I agree that it's very much like the Memoirs of Lady Trent, and the romance is very cute which is my favourite type of romance.
I love the UK cover of Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries. The US version is so dark and gives off a completely different vibe
Your sentence about wanting to see the character study and obsess over their subject in dark academia reminds me so much of Babel by R F Kuang, which I found really managed to get down the magic of languages and translation.
As for Men who hate women, I thought it was going to be Stieg Larsson because that is the original Swedish title of the first Millenium/Lizbet Salander book😅
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I'd been tempted by Six Stories... It's bring yeeted now 😂
I agree SO MUCH about The Companion! I was so excited for it. 🧚🏽♂️
Great recommendations!!😁🧚♀️
A closed fist in front of my mouth and a snigger might have been the reaction to the Power Rangers comment. I’ll take that one off my list.
Iron Widow is a book that always attracks my attention with that stunning cover , but every time I start reading the synopsis I lose interest. Your thoughts made me not regret that decision. Admittedly most of what put me off is the YA part - not working well for me anymore.
My saviour has come to my rescue on a night where sleep seems so far away, so glad to see you in another video 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Janice Hallet has a book coming out in OCTOBER ready for Christmas correct me if I am wrong but I am sure that I have seen something floating about
Thank you for a fabulous video, you have made this person very happy 😍🥳🤩
Most of this I was listening to while washing up - imagine my surprise that the book you were disappointed by called Sex Stories (to my ear due to your accent) is actually just called Six Stories, so then I too was disappointed 😂
Aww, I was really looking forward to your take on the 'supernatural' aspect in Six Stories.
I've read the first three books and they all do the same thing.
Read none of them but recently i almost bought The Cloister because of your synopsis (i just didn't want to spend money, so thats why it didn't come home with me).
I have no salt to add, but I have to add Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries to my TBR. Sounds amazing!🧚♂
I have Emily Wilde on my TBR and am looking forward to it even more now 🧚♀️ And I really need to read The Appeal, which is also still on my shelf.
I liked Six Stories, but I haven't continued in the series, yet.
I recently purchased the Cloisters because it is set in the cloisters and I LOVE art history. So if you loved the Cloisters then I have high hopes of liking this book for me as well!!! Thanks.
My experience with Emily Wilde's was so different. I DNF'ed after about 2 hours because there was literally 10 minutes that I was interested in. I couldn't stand the idea of sitting through the rest of the book just for another 10 minutes of interesting content. I didn't like the side characters, I didn't get enough fairy content. I was so disappointed that I have now become a resentful of this book and the time I spent desperately trying to hold on When I disliked it so much. It's definitely a case of "I don't think I read the same book as other people" because I have not seen a negative review about this book
🧚 Book buying happened today and because I watched this video before hitting the "buy now" button, Emily Wilde has also joined my tbr now, alongside the Janice Hallet book 🥰 Regarding Helm of Midnight: I have this on my tbr and am super excited to read it, because one of my persons rated it 5 Stars and had so many positive things to say. Now I'm even more curious whether I like it or not. It was a fantastic video, as always, and I'm sending you and Harry and the fur (and not so furry) babies lots of love.
Hi Lianne, Can you please recommend to me other mixed media content books you enjoyed please....not sure how to search them out. Thanks for another great video!🧚♀🧚 Can't wait to read the Emily Wildes book and that cover...I love it!
🧚♀ I thoroughly enjoyed the Cloisters too & Emily Wilde is on my TBR 🙏
About Janice Hallet, fear not! She has a new book coming out in October, and it is a Christmas special of the Appeal! Mind you I think it's going to be one of those small Christmas books but we'll take it!
I often find that I don’t like popular books. I was undecided if I was going to buy Emily Wild’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries but you sold me on it. Thank you for adding another book to my TBR 😒😂 🧚
I have an e-arc of The Cloisters but I still haven’t read it 😬
I read Emily Wilde against better judgement as I don't like fae stories at all, but the cover pulled me in. And guess what, I didn't like the fae aspect in that one either. I did think Emily Wilde herself was a great character though - I just don't like the standard fae tropes 🙃. I would still recommend it to people though. I will try the Lady Trent books, because dragons are far more up my alley.
🧚🏼♂ lovely video as always. I'm currently reading The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai - only halfway through but so far I think you may enjoy it. Hope you and Harry have a fabulous day!
I keep forgetting about Emily wilde! I really have to read it soon. I forget - did you read Nettle and Bone yet? 🖤
Re: Helm of Midnight --- OMG SAME. I was so excited for this book but it just wasn't it. I listened to first half of the second book and it wasn't any better...it might have been worse.
I really enjoyed Six Stories. I picked it up on a whim, but it was very different from what I normally read. Sorry you didn't enjoy it.
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I was so sad reading The Cloisters. I didn’t connect with the protagonist at all. I was actually dying for more tarot history and background versus the semi romance that was hit on. The two plot twists left me feeling indifferent because i literally just didn’t care about the protagonist by that point. It had such great potential. I wanted so desperately to love it. It makes me so sad. I kind of felt the same way about it that you did about The Companion. It was such a great plot but I wish another author wrote it. 🫠🫠
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I actually really loved iron widow 🙈 it’s the book that got me back into reading fantasy!
I agree with the critiques that say it isn’t really feminist, to me it read more as a tale of revenge and rage and wanting to burn it all to the ground (if I remember correctly, I’m the kind of reader that immediately forgets what I’ve read)
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