Story Sprites Round 2 Wrap Up

Story Sprites Round 2

 

Another round of Story Sprites completed. This was a tough one but I did manage to read a book to cover every square. I don’t think I reviewed hardly anything this time round, I just enjoyed reading and rating for the most part. You can see my Goodreads shelf with dates I finished (and a few reviews) here

 

Pink Path

Cross Dress/Gender Bender – Scarlett (Scarlett #1) AC Gaughen  - 2 Stars

Multiple Fantasy Creatures – Menagerie (Menagerie #1) – Rachel Vincent – 5 Stars

Flames on Cover – The Secret Fire (The Alchemist Chronicles #1) C.J. Daugherty – 5 Stars

Character Centred Novel – The Cost of All Things – Maggie Lehrman – 4 Stars

 

Yellow Path

Middle Grade Fantasy Novel- The Copper Gauntlet – (Magisterium #2) Cassandra Clare & Holly Black 3 Stars

Witches or Wizards – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Illustrated Edition) J.K. Rowling – 5 Stars

Bram Stoker Award Winner – American Gods – Neil Gaiman – 3 Stars

Set at a Boarding School – Shadow Kissed (Vampire Academy #3) Richelle Mead

 

Green Path

A Character Death – The Stand – Stephen King – 5 Stars

A Classic Novel – The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson – 3 Stars

A Book with a Mountain – The Shining – Stephen King – 5 Stars

Book with a Fictional Language – The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnant Chronicles #2) Mary E Pearson – 5 Stars

 

Blue Path

Male MC – Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1) – Rachel Caine 5 Stars

Photograph on the Cover – The Moon and More – Sarah Dessen – 4 Stars

A Halloween Read- Daughters unto Devils – Amy Lukavics – 4 Stars

Supernatural Race in Modern Times – Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls #1) C.C. Hunter – 4 Stars

 

Purple Path

POC MC – Scarlett Undercover – Jennifer Latham – 1 Star

QUILTBAG Author – Fans of the Impossible Life – Kate Scelsa – 4 Stars

Set in Southern USA – Miss Mayhem (Rebel Belle #2) Rachel Hawkins – 2 Stars

A Character who is a Musician – Wildflower (Wildflower #1) Alecia Whitaker – 3 Stars

 

 

Favourite Books Read

Ink and Bone – one of the best alternate history books I can remember reading. Brilliant world building, great characters and thoroughly absorbing plot.

Menagerie – possibly one of the most uncomfortable books I have ever read. Very dark but brilliantly written set in a world where all sorts of mythological and fantasy creatures are real but condemned to life as circus attractions.  

Illustrated Harry Potter  – such pretty pretty illustrations, this is one of the best editions of this book  I have (I have 4 others)  The addition of the illustrations really bring another dimension of brilliance to this already brilliant book.

The Secret Fire – I actually reviewed this one – you can read the review here.

Born at Midnight – this tells the story of a girl who is sent to a summer camp she thinks is for wayward teens. It turns out to be full of supernatural creatures everything from vampires to werewolves to shapeshifters to fae. The bulk of the story is the MC discovering these species and dealing with the fact she is one of them but what? No one seems to know. Entertaining and creative.

The Heart of Betrayal – This book has some of the best fantasy world building. More political drama in this one. More great worldbuilding including landscape and language! And speaking the language as the MC negotiates her captivity in enemy territory.

 

Worst Books

Scarlett Undercover (I really wanted to like this one, a Muslin-America heroine with a Veronica Mars like plot. I gave it 1 star for diversity, but I just didn’t like the novel at all.) 

Scarlet (Ac Gaughen) A Robin Hood retelling. All talk and very little action and I found Scarlet in this one just way too brassy, she was trying so hard to be tough as she she had to be it, it was over the top for me. She was so full of attitude it got to be very grating. Plus written in dialect and got very annoying.

Miss Mayhem – Oh Rebel Belle what happened? First book was so so good but the second was all over the shop and a huge let down at the end. I am still interested in the last book, but the second instalment was such a disappointment.

 

Honourable Mentions

American Gods – Neil Gaiman – I had no clue what was going on in this book.  I read it from start to finish, and I couldn’t recap it or tell anyone what it was about for the life of me! Some of it was brilliant, some of it was awful, some of it was confusing as hell. I didn’t know if I loved it or hated it.

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