What are you reading?

[Spritelady]

Somehow it's almost the end of May and I haven't yet posted a reading update!

My goal this year is to read 78 books and so far I've read 35, so I think I'm more or less on track.

My most recent completed read was a duology that's doing the rounds in romantasy circles: it's the first two books in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, the first being The Serpent and the Wings of Night and the second being The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King.
I enjoyed this, it had a lot of the classic tropes of romantasy books at the moment but was nevertheless entertaining and I liked the characters. I don't think it will ever win any prizes for deep literature, but I was happy just to be entertained by my books.

I also recently finished the second trilogy in the Robin Hobbs series, The Liveship Traders trilogy. I absolutely love these books and I can't believe they aren't more widely known. I think her characters are incredibly well written, the plot is intriguing and, as with the first trilogy, I was so impressed at how the various story strands were brought together in the final book.

I've bought the next trilogy in this series, which returns to the setting and characters of the first trilogy, so I'll get to those once I've worked my way through Throne of Glass (I really am on a romantasy kick lately...)

[The Seamstress]

That's cool!

I set myself a 50 books goal like last year, but so far I've only read four, currently reading the fifth, so I don't know if that's going to work...

Two of the four books were by Veo Corva, The Old Goat and the Alien and Books and Bone, and I enjoyed them very much. If you haven't read them yet, highly recommend!

Also read book 2 in the Aggie Morton Mystery Queen series, which was okay, but I liked the first one better tbh.

Now I'm reading Die vierte Wand ("The fourth Wall" - don't know if it has been translated to English, couldn't find anything), which is a German children's book. It's about a young girl living with her family in a house no one ever leaves or enters, everything is the same each day, they eat from empty plates and their books have empty pages etc. Then one day there's a mysterious package in the hallway addressed to the girl, and it's a book with actual words in it. Girl begins to read and starts questioning things, then decides she wants to go outside and see the world, climbs out of an open window, and lands back in her room, but now the house is different... It's quite intriguing so far. I have to admit, after reading almost exclusively in English the past several years it's kinda weird going back to German XD But I want to balance it more!