Ryann Rodkey
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June Book Pick! (PRIDE MONTH)🏳️🌈
🕑 Added 2023-06-01 00:51:18 +0000 UTCHello everyone! I hope you all are having an awesome week! I was trying to get Shadowhunters 2x1 up tonight, but also dealing with half of season 1 getting taken down off of YouTube for copyright/having to re-upload new videos of that, which is just a treat for me, so a new ep tonight doesn’t look in the cards!
In the meantime, I thought that we could do a little poll for a June bookclub pick/TBR pick for me! Basically, you can either choose to read the book with me, or just pick a book for me to read if you don't want to join in, which is totally fine! If I do have people read it with me this month, I will do a liveshow at the end of the month where we can talk about it! I will also do a little vlog of me reading it as well with all of my spoilery thoughts! Anyway.... to the options!! 🩶 (P.S. as June is Pride Month, all choices are by queer authors! Woohoo!) 🏳️🌈
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Ryann Rodkey
Ahhh- I totally missed the part where you wrote a month ago 🤭 and just saw that you read it! It looks like that’s winning anyway! 😊🩶
Dasha
Of course it's about the taste, it's stories after all :) The series has really high rating and I know that I am the minority here. Maybe it was the expectations I had when I started reading the first book and might give the second book a try. I did like the premise and for me it had a huge potential. It was just the execution that I wasn't a fan of. And about the monsters being too much like humans I meant that their psychology, their way of thinking wasn't alien enough to me. If I didn't know that they are totally different species their behavior could easily pass as human. And yes, I do agree that it's the humans who were the biggest monsters but I wasn't talking about the moral standpoint.
Dasha
We could but as I said, I have read The house in the cerulean sea only about a month ago so it's relatively fresh in my mind. Even if that one won I wouldn't mind :) The only one I'm not a fan of seems to be the On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. But that one only because someone tagged it as poetry and people mentioned "lyrical writing", otherwise I know next to nothing about it. I'm not a fan of purple prose, I much more prefer substance over the form... but there are exceptions for everything :D I think I'm down for anything.
Ryann Rodkey
Thank you for voting! Also, if Addie doesn’t win, you and I can do our own little side buddy read for that! 🩶
Ryann Rodkey
Oooh, I’ll for sure look into those! 🩶
Apricot M
I think it's a matter of taste. I've read the whole series like in a week (7 books + novella) and I liked this whole new dystopian world that the author created. It was unique, well written and thought of, which we can see as we progress in next books. It didn't seem to me that the monsters behaved like humans (I'd say some people behaved like monsters)) and there were many types of monsters : lots of wild and animalistic that were driven by instincts and a little less humanoid and intelligent ones, but every one of them were very detailed and new. I am an avid reader and this was definitively my top series of 2022.
Dasha
From those four I have read only The House in the Cerulean Sea a month ago (I would describe it as a wholesome fairy tale for adults - supernatural, family, acceptance and a tiny bit of a romance) and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is on my TBR so that was easy :D I'll have to check out those other two as well.
Dasha
Is it? I have read the first book when it came out and I do think it had a potential. But the writing felt like a fanfic level and I was annoyed that the monsters behaved like humans. I guess I expected something else, maybe more serious and that's why I was disappointed. But it does have amazing ratings.
Apricot M
I would love if sometime you consider to read Monstrous series by Lily Mayne.. she writes paranormal mm (monster/human) tt takes place in post-apocalyptic world. It’s so so good! I can talk about those books all day long 🙌❤
