Books I read: August

58 Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan I actually read this the last day of July. Drivel. Pure, horrible, goes-on-forever drivel.

59 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan This was super cute. I put it off because the reviews. Oh, those reviews damn it. It was good. I wouldn't say it was mind-blowing, but very entertaining.

60 Cold Magic - Kate Elliott I enjoyed the first two books in this series. I felt like the characters should have had a little MORE in the beginning because I had a hard time caring right away, but I really enjoyed the complicated relationship of Kat and Vai. So many books fall into a trap of love at first sight, and I really liked that just because she was forced to marry him she didn't love him or even like him right away. I thought her journey to caring and respecting him was very realistic in a strange steampunk world.

61 Cold Fire - Kate Elliott See above.

62 Her Dark Triumph - Robin LaFevers I'll be honest, when I realized that this book wasn't about the same main character as the first, I was extremely disappointed. And then I absolutely fell in love with this book. Better than the first, and that's a hard line to say about a book about nun assassins.

63 The House Girl - Tara Conklin I couldn't get through this - it theory it was just so much more interesting than it really was. There are so many better written books. I wanted to know what happened to the characters, but I had it on ebook and I couldn't just flip to the back so I stopped. I didn't care that much.

64 Gameboard of the Gods - Richelle Mead Honestly, if anyone else had written this book I would have dropped it. Richelle Mead is one of my favorite authors and this was just flat for me. The world was too vast and the things they used were unlike current items but were not described. I just couldn't picture any of it. The characters were not fleshed out, the "secrets" they were keeping from eachother meant she kept too many secrets from the reader and didn't start explaining anything until 250 pages in. There were moments of brilliance ... in otherwise just not a well written book. Maybe it would have been well written for someone else, but she's capable of so much more. Yes, I'll read the next one.

65 The Supremes at Earl's All-you-can-eat - Edward Kelsey Moore I heard good things about this, but I just didn't get into it.

66 The Silver Star - Jeannette Wells This was NOT AS GOOD as her memoirs. But it was pretty good. Predictable, but well written and I really liked the main girl.