READ IT OR UNHAUL IT📦 clearing out my home library to move, book buying ban unhaul challenge

I like more Spartan Agatha Christie novels like And Then There Were None. And Then There Were None is my is my favorite one of hers.

I just talked about this in my last wrap-up video, and I just frankly did not enjoy my time with this, will not want to read it again and feel pretty good unhauling this and giving it to a new home.

Cloud Atlas by the same author is one of my favorite books of all time.

So this was so boring, not a lot going on, and the ending was so dissatisfying to me, and I wish it would have explored the themes a little bit more actually because I think like a lot of her books, like And Then There Were None or what's the one Crooked? Is it Crooked House? I really liked what they talk about when they're unraveling the murder mystery, but with They Came to Baghdad, which is supposed to be about like US versus Russia Cold War as stuff, like we're not really talking about it too, too much.

I don't think this is written very well, honestly. it's not doing anything. The characters all feel very one-dimensional.

I've only read Cloud Atlas and Ghost Written and I really liked both of them.

It just feels very surface level. It feels like there's really nothing there.

And frankly, the prose is really cool. It is really cool. I think I'd be of the opinion that it's a little too Murakami.

He's such a boring character to follow, and I'm sure there will be a ton, I'm hoping, a ton of character development in the book as we go along, but right now he's really just a wet mop. And it's very unfun to follow him. The writing style, I'm really is not working with me.

I think it's kind of poorly done and especially after just reading Spark of the Everflame, which was a fantasy romance that I really enjoyed. Focused a lot more on the fantasy, I will say, in Spark of the Everflame than so far A Fate Inked in Blood because so much of this book so far is just encounters between Freya and Bjorn and they're just so I'll finish the chapter out and then we will be probably, I'm like 99% sure, on hauling our first book.

Number one, because I have DNF'd a book from this author before, which was The Bridge Kingdom by the same author. I didn't like that very much at all.

I don't know about cozy fantasy anymore. I don't, unless it's like really good because I've read stuff kind of like this, like The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durst I read last year. Just thought that was okay.

So this was so boring, not a lot going on, and the ending was so dissatisfying to me, and I wish it would have explored the themes a little bit more actually because I think like a lot of her books, like And Then There Were None or what's the one Crooked? Is it Crooked House? I really liked what they talk about when they're unraveling the murder mystery, but with They Came to Baghdad, which is supposed to be about like US versus Russia Cold War as stuff, like we're not really talking about it too, too much.