Rainy Day Reads

Challenges:   Around the Year in 52 Books: Epistolary fiction This book is perhaps not epistolary fiction strictly speaking, but it is definitely written in a different format. We have chat logs, reports from different officials, statistics and all sorts of other things. It’s a very visual book, and I think the format works well for the story.  In this book we follow Kady Grant. Her planet has recently been attacked and she has been saved and taken on board a space ship. However, the attackers are in hot pursuit and soon it becomes difficult to tell friend from enemy when a zombie-like virus and a willfull AI main computer throw some wrenches in the machinery. Being a skilled hacker Kady decides to figure out just exactly what is going on and what she discovers runs far deeper than she expected.  This story was action from start to finish, but peppered with great friendships, relationships, philosophical and moral musings and twisting plots. I loved...

I hear amazing things about Jay Kristoff all the time and this book has been sitting on my shelf for a while. When I went on vacation a little while ago I decided it was finally time to tuck into what appeared to be an epic fantasy.  I got settled in on my beach chair and started reading. I found it very slow going, but figured I was just distracted by the heat, the view and the sea calling out for me to jump in and cool off. But I have found out that others have had the same problem with the start of this book. I think it is such slow going at the start because of the intricate world building and the explaining of a bunch of Japanese terms.  Speaking of Japanese terms I think that was a little overdone. There were a multitude of clothing items and weapons, especially, that each had a specific term, and I could never remember which was which. Once I finished the book I realized there is a glossary at the back…But even if I had known about it, I hate flipping b...