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Going to put this under a cut because spoilers? Usually I'm reading about three books at a time, but somehow I have four.
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis - I have childhood memories of liking some of the books in this series. I remember DNFing The Horse and His Boy but couldn't remember why until I picked it up again and promptly ended up DNFing again. I had heard a lot about this book, but hadn't ever read it. I own a copy so I can't tell you why, but I'm glad childhood me didn't read this because omg it's awful! I had to stop the audiobook and go wtf multiple times and then debate with myself if I was going to stick it out until the kids show up. I honestly hoped it would get better when the kids showed up? Nope...they showed up and I went yay Jill and Eustace. I liked that they were both studying archery since their last visit, but then they put on disguises...which including a juice that would turn their skin brown. So yeah this book got DNFed. I complained on Twitter and one of my mutuals suggested The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth. I found it on Hoopla and borrowed it and it'll be the next audiobook I read when I finish the one I'm currently listening too. I was really impressed with the trigger warning I found for it on Goodreads.
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hestor Fox - This is the audiobook I'm currently listening to and I'm not usually one that likes a horror element to their reading, but this one is just steeped enough in reality that I'm loving it. It's a gothic novel. The main character Ivy finds out a cousin she's never met died and now she's inherited his estate and title. She loves reading and quickly falls in love with the library, then starts a lending program with the townspeople, except the person she lends a book about beekeeping to gets attacked by a swarm of bees and when she lets someone borrow a book on monsoons the rain goes unusual. There's more to the mystery but I don't want to totally spoil it. I've got about two and a half hours left and can't wait to see what happens next. I'm anticipating devouring my way through the rest of this author's books.
On The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy by Sherry Buchanan - Is a book a found at work of all places and I've been slowly working my way through it waiting for it to disappear because the patient who left it came back to get it, but it might have gotten left on purpose. I keep finding formally dogearred pages and there isn't a currently dogearred page. The book follows the author's journey with two traveling companions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail where she interviews people on both sides of the conflict, trying her best to find female veterans to visit and interview. She also interviews a few American veterans she meets along the way. This book is worth it just for the pictures. The author is also vivid in her descriptions of the landscapes and some of the memorials/shrines they visit. There's a map of where they're traveling on the trail before each chapter and then she gives a brief history of that part of the trail and the conflicts fought there before she goes into what traveling that part of the trail in modern day is like and then the people she meets along the way.
Godly Heathens by H. E. Edgmon - This is an ebook I got from Netgalley. It doesn't come out until November 28th, but I've already preordered it. The cover is a gorgeous piece of art. The book follows Gem Echols, who is a nonbinary Seminole teen, living in a very small town. They have weird dreams. And then two new girls move into town and one of them attacks Gem and it turns out the dreams are memories of a previous life as a god and one not all the other gods like, one the other gods want to kill. I'm only 11 chapters in, but I don't want this book to end. I'm really enjoying the worldbuilding.
Legacy of the Jedi by Jude Watson - I really need to get through this one so I can return it to the library, but I struggled to get through the Dooku parts because wow is he not a character I enjoy. The book follows Dooku losing a friend...and then that former friend showing up to trouble Dooku and Qui-Gon, the Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan...I haven't gotten to the Obi-Wan and Anakin part yet, but I'm getting through it easier now that I don't have Dooku's pov.
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis - I have childhood memories of liking some of the books in this series. I remember DNFing The Horse and His Boy but couldn't remember why until I picked it up again and promptly ended up DNFing again. I had heard a lot about this book, but hadn't ever read it. I own a copy so I can't tell you why, but I'm glad childhood me didn't read this because omg it's awful! I had to stop the audiobook and go wtf multiple times and then debate with myself if I was going to stick it out until the kids show up. I honestly hoped it would get better when the kids showed up? Nope...they showed up and I went yay Jill and Eustace. I liked that they were both studying archery since their last visit, but then they put on disguises...which including a juice that would turn their skin brown. So yeah this book got DNFed. I complained on Twitter and one of my mutuals suggested The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth. I found it on Hoopla and borrowed it and it'll be the next audiobook I read when I finish the one I'm currently listening too. I was really impressed with the trigger warning I found for it on Goodreads.
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hestor Fox - This is the audiobook I'm currently listening to and I'm not usually one that likes a horror element to their reading, but this one is just steeped enough in reality that I'm loving it. It's a gothic novel. The main character Ivy finds out a cousin she's never met died and now she's inherited his estate and title. She loves reading and quickly falls in love with the library, then starts a lending program with the townspeople, except the person she lends a book about beekeeping to gets attacked by a swarm of bees and when she lets someone borrow a book on monsoons the rain goes unusual. There's more to the mystery but I don't want to totally spoil it. I've got about two and a half hours left and can't wait to see what happens next. I'm anticipating devouring my way through the rest of this author's books.
On The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy by Sherry Buchanan - Is a book a found at work of all places and I've been slowly working my way through it waiting for it to disappear because the patient who left it came back to get it, but it might have gotten left on purpose. I keep finding formally dogearred pages and there isn't a currently dogearred page. The book follows the author's journey with two traveling companions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail where she interviews people on both sides of the conflict, trying her best to find female veterans to visit and interview. She also interviews a few American veterans she meets along the way. This book is worth it just for the pictures. The author is also vivid in her descriptions of the landscapes and some of the memorials/shrines they visit. There's a map of where they're traveling on the trail before each chapter and then she gives a brief history of that part of the trail and the conflicts fought there before she goes into what traveling that part of the trail in modern day is like and then the people she meets along the way.
Godly Heathens by H. E. Edgmon - This is an ebook I got from Netgalley. It doesn't come out until November 28th, but I've already preordered it. The cover is a gorgeous piece of art. The book follows Gem Echols, who is a nonbinary Seminole teen, living in a very small town. They have weird dreams. And then two new girls move into town and one of them attacks Gem and it turns out the dreams are memories of a previous life as a god and one not all the other gods like, one the other gods want to kill. I'm only 11 chapters in, but I don't want this book to end. I'm really enjoying the worldbuilding.
Legacy of the Jedi by Jude Watson - I really need to get through this one so I can return it to the library, but I struggled to get through the Dooku parts because wow is he not a character I enjoy. The book follows Dooku losing a friend...and then that former friend showing up to trouble Dooku and Qui-Gon, the Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan...I haven't gotten to the Obi-Wan and Anakin part yet, but I'm getting through it easier now that I don't have Dooku's pov.
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