I failed!! Completely and utterly. The Winter TBR pile contained eleven books but due to The Christmas Rewrite, I managed very very little recreational reading. (I did, however, consume three writing-craft books, which took some time.)
Of the seven Christmas books listed I managed all of two. Yes, two. In a holiday. So poor.
Of the others mentioned, I managed another two. I know, I know...
Lovely Santa CP gifted me three which I leapfrogged in, because I am particularly naughty like that. They were;
Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven (YA)
Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland (YA)
Easily (the competition is small) the joint Book of the Season are Holding up the Universe and Our Chemical hearts which were top-rung YA novels. Loved them. One of them doesn’t even have a happy ending – which is tantrum territory – but get this- I didn’t mind. That’s how otherwise pleasing it was – or else I’m just growing up a bit…
Given I read very few, there’s only a couple of other thoughts;
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One was just too worthy, which detracted from
the enjoyment.
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I love quirky forms of storytelling and one
of these had that. But the quirky form in this case made it quite hard to read,
distorting the flow of the narrative, which I doubt was the desired effect. I'm verging on feeling that the form was trying to disguise an underdeveloped story. Overall it felt
like a case of 'form over experience.'
That’s it. Epic fail, but it was for good
reasons, so no apologies. Onwards!
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