BOOK UNHAUL

as a historical fiction story that follows the last woman to be executed in Iceland it is heavily based in real events in fact throughout the book between chapters you do get pieces of real documents and man those are super hard-hitting this book is fantastic

while there were elements of dead house gates that I liked more I still really can't stand Stephen Erickson's form of storytelling it's just it doesn't click with me whatsoever

fireboard absolutely suited my taste it was as close to perfection I feel like as you can get with political fantasy I loved it so much

reading the first one alongside so many of you was so much fun but it was kind of the highlight of the reading experience was reading it alongside so many of you because I very much didn't care for gardens the moon

I think that they handled so many things in the story with so much care and those are the parts that I really appreciated but weirdly I'm not at all saying that fantasy books shouldn't shouldn't explore difficult topics it's just that this is a story that I think the author had such cool interesting ideas about the world and then also had this really powerful story over here and for some reason I just felt like there's a disconnect between those two things

the first half was so good anyway this isn't a so I should just stop going off about it but basically the second half the book it was totally a preference thing I just didn't like the direction the plot went

I think sometimes that can be really tricky but I think she did a great job of that from Grisha to six of crows I think she kind of had these two distinct stories

I just so couldn't stand the main character I couldn't stand the main character and it's pretty much just his point of view I think he's the kind of character that I would have liked so much more if I got so much less of him I think this book would have fit my tastes a lot more had there been other point of views because the world was really interesting the magic was really interesting