Weekly Wrap Up : 18/03/18
18 March 2018 
It only seems like five minutes ago since I wrote my last weekly wrap up post and here I am again. This week for some reasons we’ve started watching Breaking Bad again – simply because we never completed the series – lets see if we make it to the end this time. Also, I’ve read two books this week and made good progress on a couple of others.
Books read:
- Planetfall by Emma Newman
- Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne
Next Week’s Reads:
- The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams – I’ve read 65%
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe – approx 20% read
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
Upcoming reviews:
- Starborn by Lucy Hounsom
- Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Vintage Sci Fi book)
- Master Assassins by Robert VS Redick
- Planetfall by Emma Newman
- Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne
I’d love to know what you’re reading this week.
Books and travelling with Lynn 
I really need to start reading Emma Newman. I have the first Split Worlds book, but I haven’t cracked it open yet.
I enjoyed the split worlds series as a whole – it has it’s ups and downs but definitely a good series if you like the whole period feel and the involvement of fae.
Lynn 😀
Your review list is getting smaller, you must be catching up! I’m just starting Looking Glass and hope to knock it out in a few days.
It was brilliant. Yes, I’m finally starting to catch up with reviews which is a relief.
Lynn 😀
I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on both Planetfall and Looking Glass, both of which are new to me! I still need to catch up on Emma Newman’s Split World novels too. I read the first and then forgot all about them! 😀
The Splitworlds turned into a very good series. Looking Glass was excellent – the first book was The Naturalist which was also a great read. Planetfall I really enjoyed, I didn’t love the ending but overall thought it was really good.
Lynn 😀
I’ll definitely add The Naturalist to my list then 😀
Oh yes, do so. It’s brilliant.
Lynn 😀
I’m very, very curious about “Feeder”: it sounds quite different from his “Rebels of the Republic” series, so I can’t wait to hear what you think about it 🙂
So far it is very different. Not sure what to make of it yet but I’m only 10% in.
Lynn 😀
I am also very much looking forward to hearing what you made of Planetfall – I think it’s a remarkable read, although I preferred After Atlas. In the meantime, I hope you have a great week, Lynn:)
It was very good although I can’t say the ending worked for me – it didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the story somehow – or maybe it was just unexpected.
Lynn 😀
Yes… that ending. It has split readers right down the line. I liked it and felt that it did fit – there was clearly stuff going on and she was so very riddled with guilt. But you’re not the only one who didn’t think it really worked:)
Yeah, the ending felt kind of sad. I know that she had her issues but it felt so lonely somehow and it was a bit sudden. The rest of the book though – wow. Plus, thinking about it, it makes sense in a way that the ending was abrupt because these are standalones, it just left me feeling a bit flat after all the emotional roller coaster reading.
Lynn 😀
But she was ALWAYS so lonely – I think that was the point… While being right in the middle of that very close-knit community, no one really knew how she felt – and the one person who sort of did chose to ignore it.
I know – I think I put something in my review about the fact that she was surrounded by people and yet alone, nobody saw the signs or perhaps it was just easier to ignore them. I guess, at the end of the day, I wanted something a bit more hopeful or positive. Ren was suffering from mental issues and I think I wanted something to turn around for her. As it is, it felt like the ending just perpetuated the loneliness. I suppose I wanted a ‘happier’ ending for her and yet I can understand why the story was concluded in that way – in fact perhaps that’s the point of the ending. There isn’t always a happy ending or an easy fix.
Lynn 😀
Planetfall has me really curious because I’m looking forward to the upcoming Before Mars, but haven’t read any of the previous books. I think they’re okay as standalones, but still…
Feeder- now THAT”S an interesting cover 🙂
I’ve started Feeder – I don’t know why because I already have two books on the go. I seem to be very restless at the moment with my style of reading. Planetfall was great, and in fact had a teaser for book No.2 at the conclusion – which I also read. Going off that I’d say that the books operate as standalones.
Lynn 😀
My heart is still pounding from Looking Glass. I’m glad I cleared my schedule before starting it, because I would not have liked to be interupted!
It was so good. I started off and thought I wasn’t going to like it as much as the first, it’s lost the surprise element, plus I really liked the setting of The Naturalist and this felt quite different but OMG I was hooked. I read it in practically one sitting. Where has Andrew Mayne been hiding all this time!
Lynn 😀
Sadly I have still not finished a book! However I am good way through historical fiction Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen by Alison Weir and the American classic This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Happy reading!
I’m like that this week – reading three books. Not sure if it’s a good idea or not but there we go…