1. The Discovery of Middle Earth – Graham Robb
I’m about forty percent of the way through this book, and I just can’t anymore. The author is writing about his ideas for the continental Celts’ cosmology, and why they built their towns were they did. They’re not bad ideas, but I don’t think they’re enough for an entire book. So it’s also a bit of a travelogue of his going to these places, and honestly? I just don’t care. I’m letting this one go. I won’t delete it, but I doubt I’ll ever go back to it.
2. Goddess Curse – RaShelle Workman
I normally nope out of free Kindle books pretty quickly if I don’t like them – I can usually tell that the style is something I won’t be able to deal with. In this case, the prologue was great – it was a take on Egyptian mythology that had a pretty good set up. And then it became a whiny YA regency story. I could not deal with the main character. Oh well.
3. A Throne for Sisters – Morgan Rice
The writing for this is pretty good, so I’m not deleting it outright. However, when two sisters escape an orphanage and go their separate ways to try and make their different ways in the world, when one of them is having a wretched time of it, and the other one waltzes into the palace and immediately attracts the eyes of a prince, I just can’t.
4. The Heart of the Garden – Victoria Connelly
This is an ensemble piece of the members of a small town that inherit the big house when the last heir dies, on the condition that they restore the garden within a year. Naturally, there are flashbacks to the younger years of said heir, and of course, everyone in the present day has some burden they’re bearing. I just wasn’t grabbed by any of it. Sat on this one for many months before I decided I just needed to let it go.