hey
it's me tb and today i'm going to be
doing my august wrap up
um because i didn't read that much so it
will be easier for me to wrap up.
so let's go straight into my wrap up
after i uploaded
that current reads video which which was
basically just a summary of stuff that
i've read
in like between late july and early
august
um i have no idea like when that video
ended so if i cover something already
covered in that video
just ignore me. first i read Dead Until
Dark by Charlaine Harris this is the
book that True Blood was based off of
and this is like the first book
which follows the first season of true
blood and well
the tv show follows this one to like a
T,  almost, it just cut out a few
like characters really and Tara does not
appear in this
at all so that was weird to like read
about and i gave this 4 out of 5 stars i
did really like it i can't tell if i
like it because i already knew the tv
show
and the writing
connected with me because i like the tv
show
or because i liked the writing if that
makes sense i will continue on in the
series because i am trash for vampires
but we already knew that so no surprise
there yeah i did like some of the
differences that this book had compared
to the first season like the ending is
slightly different it is overall the
same but it was different enough that i
preferred the ending of this one
compared to the first season of the tv
show but i will say
that that the reveal about Sam and like
who he is still feels like so forced in
because like
in this book it isn't relevant it just
kind of happens
and like what the fuck is the point like
it literally happens like
in the last like two chapters so it
feels very just like
rammed in there but like okay works
for me if you don't know what like True
Blood is about basically follows a
Sookie Stackhouse
who is a telepath except she can't read
the minds of vampires
and one day a vampire comes into this
bar that she works out called
Merlotte's and she basically kind of like
wants to become friends with this
vampire
and stuff kind of like spirals out from
there and while like that's going on
there are women getting murdered and
people think that vampires are why
they're being murdered
so Sookie's friend Bill comes under fire
and yeah plot stuff blah blah blah
if you watch season one of the tv show
you basically know the plot to this book.
then i listened to Talon by Julie Kagawa
um this was not good um it was a
two stars for me
and i had to go through like reviews and
i think this is like
Julie Kagawa's like weakest series so
far. so i do want to read her other stuff
but this was just not a good time
it hit all the like really bad tropes
like it was hitting like the 2014
era like the characters just aren't
like that interesting you don't
want to get involved with them because
just like so not interesting this
has like three povs
um ember uh the guy that works for the
enemy
and the other dragon boy it's been a
while and i didn't like it so it all just kind
of like left my brain
when it ended, towards the end i was
listening at like a 2.5 times speed
so i'd get it over with because i could
not give a fuck i think i skipped like
two chapters towards the end
because i just could not give a  fuck anymore
like i just couldn't.
i gave it two stars because like the
world building was like interesting, the
characters were just fucking awful
i didn't give a single fuck about anyone
like the plot going on is just so
boring. dragons are like so not a part of
it you don't see a lot of like dragon
action
the love triangle is like so not
done well the main love interest is just
so fucking boring
like he has the most boring personality
i've ever fucking read
like i think he might be worse than Mal
just because at least Mal has like some
version of like character traits
it might just be hunting but at least
Mal has that. Guy in talon has fucking
nothing he's literally a piece of like
white bread he's so fucking boring
i will not be pushing forward into the
series because this was just
so fucking bad. Then i read the Rage of
Dragons by Evan Winter
this took me basically all month to read
because first 150 ish pages
were just such a fucking slog it was
fucking miserable i preferred the more
combat heavy sections
the combat did drag on if you read too
much at once but
i read it so slowly it was fine i gave
this a four out of five stars
following Tau as he sets off on this
quest of revenge um i will say
that the reason tao gets into like
trouble is so dumb
and i cannot support his like revenge
because it just felt so stupid and like
that it was his own fault for like
getting there so maybe he was like
supposed to be flawed.
i did not care about his revenge because
it felt like it was his own fault like
don't get me wrong this society is like
corrupt obviously
but like the situation that inspires him
to take his revenge he's warned
that that happens, then he just does it
anyway then he gets punished for it
and then you act surprised like offended
and it's like dude
we saw this happen why are you surprised.
i vastly preferred the like brother in 
arms that come into play
later over him. they were more
interesting and i thought that they were
kind of carrying me through the story
at least I like them and like i worried
about them not so much Tau and then
the love interest is so bland like i
don't know why she was in here she does
nothing besides just tell us
plot details which could have been
interwoven throughout
the like in between the combat sections
and it is
but when she appears on the page you can
tell you're about to get like a long ass
dump with like information out of nowhere
and the entire time
in the entire time we're getting like
those plot details Tau interrupts like
every other paragraph to like say
something stupid it's like dude
shut the fuck up. I'm interested in
seeing where the plot goes later
because i feel like there's a chance
for growth for Tau
hopefully that happens also the last
like 100 pages were really like good
but it will kind of also say that this
is very like
combat heavy so if you don't want to
hear a lot about like sword play
there's a lot of it, like happens at
least
every chapter sometimes multiple times
in a chapter and yeah it was good
it wasn't like mind-blowingly great at
least until like the very like
last like a fourth i would say you know.
then i read it Delta  of Venus it's
basically a collection of like of erotic
short stories
because the author was contacted by this
like rich guy to write smut for him
basically and she did it for money
i gave this three out of five stars i
did read this basically all like two
sittings so i think it did
kind of like shape how i felt towards
certain parts of it so maybe that kind
of affected how i felt about it or like
how i
took in the stories. this had some like
really fucked up shit in it like there's
pedophilia,
incest, a guy fucks a corpse in this it's
a lot but the majority of this
is like three ish short stories like
three of the
bigger short stories are basically like
from page 72 to like 191
so over 100 pages in this is like the
same three stories
and it kind of affects the same like
cast of characters. i think
that was like the peak for this
collection for me they're also like the
least fucked up well like the third one
is the one that has a guy fucking corpse
in this
so that was kind of still kind of fucked
up but not as fucked up
as other ones basically the author had
really like fucked up life
and she entered an incestuous
relationship with her own father so that
kind of like shows that if she was
willing to like fuck her dad
when she was like in her like 20s or 30s
she was not
the most sane of people. we'll say she
needed,
she probably needed lots of help but it
was like the 40s and there wasn't really
like psychology yet she was kind of just
fucked
and then we got this and yeah it was
interesting and i do want to read more
from this author
i do want to like reread this to
annotate it it was a ride. this is also
one of the classics i wanted to read at
some point this year so i can't check it
off my list.
then i read Girl Woman Other by
Bernadine Evaristo
this wom one of those fancy literary
medals like awards
last year i think i have no idea which
one because they're all kind of the same to
me. this is basically following a
collection of
black women that live in i wanna
say london but i guess like
england as a whole like the uk maybe.
But its just following this like
group of like black women as they're
just like live in this area
i guess so we see Amma, her daughter, um
almost friend, we see a teacher
we see that teacher's student, see that student's
friend we see another teacher,
we see that other teachers like mother.
so much history
all throughout it's like really weird to
explain basically just covers like a lot
of like women
and their various experiences while
living in the uk
and i give it 5 out of 5 stars because
it was written very well even though it
was kind of just like a more like chill
book i guess because it's not like
like heavy plot so much as you are
learning about these characters and
their lives
so it is definitely more like character
heavy than like plot heavy but i still
really liked it i do recommend it and i
want a physical copy of it now.
then i did a reread of the Rise of
Kyoshi by FC Yee.
this takes place in the avatar the last
airbender universe, follows after kyoshi
surprise surprise follows how she
learned that she is the avatar and just
her early adventures basically
and as she goes on her quest for revenge
after something bad happens to one of
her friends.
i did really like this on my reread too
there's not a lot else to say
besides i liked it and i do really like
kyoshi's
version of team avatar i think they're
like
close to being on the same level as um
aang's team avatar but yeah i did
like the cast of characters in this and
I do  like the world building that we
get
you see a lot of like important events
that affect the world as we know it
later on, happen in this book and get
like mentioned.
i have been putting off talking with
this book for like the whole fucking
video but now i have no choice
i read Eat PrEy love by Kerrelyn Sparks
this is a paranormal romance um this is
a paranormal romance for adults
there is like smut in this and yeah um
this book got two stars form me for a
variety of reasons and it was not great.
i'm not gonna read anything else from
this author because  they only got
two stars because i like the
paranormal
aspects and like the world building that
we do have
those are very fun but it was just
everything else was just not good
so this is like the  tenth book in
this like long running 
series and this is following i think her
name's like Kaitlyn
as she is reconnecting to her sister and
her sister's like
married to this guy that's part of this
big pharmacy and surprise
her sister's husband is a vampire and so
we're all his friends
so when Kaitlyn goes to meet them she's
like she finds out vampires are real
because they want to recruit her to work
for them
because she has like some power i forget
what she has but she has like
some power i think i forget what it is
but she has some power and they want her
to work for the security team
because that team is trying to like
fight off these evil vampires and of
course she falls in love with this
guy named Carlos um who is not all human
because he is a werepanther and he is
trying to
go out to find a mate for himself
because his people were all killed in
an attack so yeah of course um
Kaitlin and Carlos
fall in love it's very questionable
i like their relationship i just feel
like it happened way too fast and
there's this weird like thing about
carlos here. like people thought he was
gay and it's brought up so many times
and it's like why aren't you asking him
 if he's like bisexual, pansexual?
they just debate on whether or not he's
like straight or gay and just lasts
so long that i was like what the fuck is
the point of this i don't get it and
Carlos says some like questionable things
throughout the book I
was not behind. This book made me realize
something
and it's that i hate when like the love
interest
has like a pov in the book because it
just kind of like fucks with the flow of
the book because you have this and
then this like man comes in
and fucks it all up being like so
fucking boring and it's like
when he spoke in the story i was so like
bored and i was like
can i go back to the girl i don't care
about this man's thought i'm here
for this girl getting horny over this
werepanther dick
i'm not here for like this man to like
give me his thoughts
i'm here for this girl getting horny
over this cat man
thing that's what i'm here for i'm not
here for this man giving me his thoughts
and feelings. it was okay um and that's
all i have to say it was okay and yeah
that's about it i was at least
invested in it enough to listen to it
all the way through unlike Talon where
i skipped through stuff
so i was able to like listen through
this like this werepanther bs
but this dragon YA bullshit so obviously at
least it isn't just
me having like a bad taste um obviously
just Talon is not very well written
so yeah this is the physical stuff i
read in
august latter half of august so yeah if
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hopefully
