August Monthly Wrap Up| My SPFBO Semi-Finalist, DNFs, & Five Star Reads

the first half of the book is just kind of them going about doing like class work and learning spells and going about their daily lives and fretting about certain things and I wasn't vibing with that super hard but then like the second half of the book the stakes really ramp up

I will let you know that I love this even more than volume one it was a great kind of strengthening of the depth of the story and we kind of get to see how he became so dark and jaded and what led to that

it was just very fast-paced it was really cool there's a lot of great world building here there's like Crystal monsters and it's got like half goblins which you always hear about the half elf but never a half Goblin so I really enjoyed that

I went on record and said I absolutely loved daughter of the empire last month it was probably my favorite book of all time

it was a bit too much of that subject and I was like Oh I thought this was going to be something else and maybe it is something else and I just didn't get a chance to get to it but it lost my interest

I like tournament settings in my books so it always works for me so this one was a home run

I really enjoyed this book and I will be doing a dedicated SP FBO semi-finalist book review in the near future

it focuses more on romance it's got some naming conventions in here that it just wasn't falling in love with it's multi-pov so we're getting less of Mara which Mara was the drawing point for me in this book

it's very good and I'm finally in getting some growth within Ronan and within the story that I've been wanting

spirits of Vengeance it was really good I gave it about a 4.5 out of five it just felt a hair indulgent on its length and we kind of dive into some stuff into some trauma and I don't know if I needed all of that page count but it was still really enjoyable to consume

I gave this one five stars I thought it was very inventive I've just I fell in love with it

the last chapter of this book really saved it for me because it re-contextualizes and does a retcon that I really loved of the series all going all the way back to Legend and I really enjoyed that

but I love the wandering in I think I'm going to be planning more content around this series

there's a little bit of horror aspects there's some ghostiness stuff going on and there's fantasy races and magic and floating town and it's just awesome I really enjoyed this one

for me it just worked I gave this one about four stars it wasn't like a top favorite King book of all time but I really vibed with it I really liked it