June Wrap-Up (2019)

I read a lot in June and with it came both disappointing and awesome books, so it evens out!

I loved re-reading The Way of Kings, this is a great beast of a book with amazing worldbuilding and compelling characters.

The True Queen was cute but it wasn’t as amazing as Sorcerer to the Crown, it was all too easy to figure out right from the first clues. The f/f romance was nice but developped too fast, and right at the end. I hated the way Magic for Liars handled its teen characters, the mystery wasn’t very mysterious and the main character really not good at detective work.

Pax was nice, The Vela as well, but I wasn’t as moved or taken by the stories like I had hoped for. La Débusqueuse de Monde was good but not as amazing as I hoped as well, one of my issues with it is how the “iel” pronoun is only being used for alien.
Chevauche-Brumes was full-on bad though, mostly regarding the way it wrote female characters, and I finished it only so I could give it a bad rating on goodreads since it only had good ones (call me petty…)

Running with Lions was great, the romance between the two teen football players was adorable, even though the writing still needed a bit more work in my opinion. I’ll be sure to try and read the author’s future books!
When the Moon was Ours had an impeccable writing style but I didn’t love it, just personal taste. It was a beautiful novel but way more violent than I thought it would be, especially regarding physical harm, blackmail about forced outing and so on.

L’Homme Gribouillé and Poussière were two great graphic novels, I’m so glad I borrowed them from the library on a whim!

The Poison Song was a great ending to a now favourite trilogy, and Velocity Weapon is a book I’ll definitely want to re-read and am looking forward to its sequel. Silver in the Wood is a great novella, with m/m romance in the deep of the woods.

Royaume de vent et de colères was a great surprise, short historical fantasy with great characters, that I reviewed here. Les nuages de Magellan was a scifi novel with two women as main protagonists, a young one and a much older one, and I loved it a lot. Notre Dame de la Mer was sad and compelling, and I loved how it dealt with Bretagne’s myths and legends.