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WWW Wednesday

This meme will be categorised together with my book reviews. All links will get you to the book’s Goodreads listing, as always 🙂

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What I’m currently reading

WWW270116.1The Name of the Wind

I’ve put this off for long enough, so it’s about time I get around to this! The size of it still intimidates me and I doubt that’ll have changed by the time I’m done, but I’m really looking forward it. I’ve heard so many good things and can’t wait to see for myself! Because this is such a long book I don’t expect to have another WWW in two weeks time, but we’ll see!

I’m not even one hundred pages into it but I’m madly in love and you’re right, it is a fast read! It’s so hard to put this down and I’m devouring it!

Blurb:

Told in Kvothe’s own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.

The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.

A high-action story written with a poet’s hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.

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What I recently finished reading

Get me! I read two books since the last time I posted! TWO! It’s a new personal record! 😀

Here’s what I read:

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A Gathering of Shadows

If I remember correctly, I finished this book shortly after my last WWW post (in-the-same-day shortly). I posted a review the Thursday after that, so I won’t go into detail here.

Blurb:

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell’s possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland’s dying body through the rift, and into Black London.

In many ways, things have almost returned to normal, though Rhy is more sober, and Kell is now plagued by his guilt. Restless, and having given up smuggling, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks like she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games—an extravagant international competition of magic, meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries—a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.

But while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life, and those who were thought to be forever gone have returned. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night reappears in the morning, and so it seems Black London has risen again—meaning that another London must fall.

I also read this:

The Siblings

The Siblings

I received an Advanced Reader Copy from A. Morgan, and will have a review ready for tomorrow. Since this is his debut novel and I knew that he wasn’t done editing when I received my copy I was a little nervous, but my nerves were unnecessary. It was a very fast-paced, action-packed story which left me wanting more in the sequel. But, as I said, there’ll be a review tomorrow, so look out for that!

Release date: 12th April

Blurb:

The sky has fallen. The world has been left in ruins, with only a few spots still prospering. Jest and Fer, brother and sister, wait out for the world to come to an undignified end. But in the commotion, havoc wreaks. The two are separated, taken on separate journeys by different factions.
Fer, pregnant, taken under the custody of the nefarious Operation, the political leaders of the new world, must fight for release in an attempt to reach her brother.
Jest, beaten and left for dead, is brought to safety by a surreptitious military group that know more of the new world than they are letting on.
The Siblings must persevere and fight through unimaginable obstacles to be reunited before it is too late.

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What I think I’ll read next

I’m still a little undecided. I’ve got a couple of sci-fi novels waiting on my bookshelf, and since I haven’t read much sci-fi until now I will read one of them, but I haven’t decided which. It’ll be one of these two gems:

the caves of steel

The Caves of Steel

Blurb:

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the “R” stood for robot–and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!

Or possibly:

consider phlebas

Consider Phlebas

Blurb:

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.

Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

It’ll probably be a last minute decision, but right now I’m leaning more towards Asimov since his book is shorter, and I’ve already got a long read ahead of me now.

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Have you read any of these and would like to chat about it? I look forward to hearing from you if you do – just leave a comment below and we can get this book club started!

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