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Bittersweetfeline t1_jdg0dsk wrote
Reply to How do you rate your books on Goodreads? by pensieve64
5 - really liked it! LOVED it even
4 - really enjoyed it, maybe some very minor irks
3 - some significant irks, maybe some writing/editing issues, plot issues, character issues
2 - many many issues, difficult to continue or enjoy
1 - this was NOT for me/it was absolutely terrible/I struggle to fathom how others make it through this drivel
Bittersweetfeline t1_jdg04qz wrote
Reply to comment by fremenator in As a newbie to sci-fi, reading complicated sci-fi is making my brain hurt, but it's also really enjoyable. by justkeepbreathing94
Hyperion Cantos ... I'm on book #2 and I love it so very very much.
Bittersweetfeline t1_jdg017o wrote
Reply to As a newbie to sci-fi, reading complicated sci-fi is making my brain hurt, but it's also really enjoyable. by justkeepbreathing94
What book is it? Sounds like something I would like to check out! :)
Bittersweetfeline t1_jch48kw wrote
I did not realize SoA was going to be a romance, which is NOT really my cup of tea, so her writing was phenomenal which allowed me to finish, but I was a bit bamboozled wanting more of the actual retelling, lol.
I have Circe as well and look forward to reading it!
Bittersweetfeline t1_j2bkuaz wrote
Reply to comment by ginnygrakie in I just can’t with the forced romances in mysteries and thrillers! They are so ridiculous by ginnygrakie
Yeah! I think one book I hated for this was Phantoms by Dean Koontz. Great overall story I felt, but they shipped the sheriff/head cop (I don't recall) and the main character and it was just so hammy and horrible. I was like, god please stop. Then I read "Door to December" and there was insinuated a crush but ZERO romance and I was like, oh thank god. It was so much better.
Bittersweetfeline t1_j2avh23 wrote
Reply to Next Book Syndrome by Successful-Design972
I think... if you're not enjoying the book so much that you're looking forward to the next one on your list, pause your current book. Read the one you're looking forward to, and then come back to it. Or if it's just not doing it for you, DNF it.
Try not to race through books because you want to get to the next one for accomplishment or numbers. Enjoy what you're reading :)
Bittersweetfeline t1_j2a1fs9 wrote
Reply to I just can’t with the forced romances in mysteries and thrillers! They are so ridiculous by ginnygrakie
I like sex... if I'm reading smut. Maybe if it's been led up to alongside a good story and it's nice to see it culminating (but preferably without many details because I'm not reading it for the sex).
I hate when authors just shove two characters together. One of my biggest mistakes was reading the Song of Achilles thinking it was a greek retelling, and not knowing it was basically a romance.
Bittersweetfeline t1_ixt4vyf wrote
Reply to What's the last book to put you into a reading slump? Or the last book to get you out of one? by cantspellrestaraunt
I'm in a slump right now: Hyperion (not that it's bad! I just need time to digest each story and I can't get back to it right now)
That took me out of my previous slump: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Bittersweetfeline t1_iuakyna wrote
I loved his Wayward Pines trilogy more than Recursion and Dark Matter - they're a bit less science dense and a bit more plot. Fantastic series.
Bittersweetfeline t1_jdju59u wrote
Reply to comment by HerbsAndSpices11 in As a newbie to sci-fi, reading complicated sci-fi is making my brain hurt, but it's also really enjoyable. by justkeepbreathing94
It continues right away, almost as if there's no reason for it to be in two books. Maybe think of a short intermission or a large book in two halves vs. the two separate books. It's quite good.