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booksinmyhouseGenre: Fantasy
How it got in my house: Library hold request, made before I started this blog
Recommend: If you like fun fantasy with a vibrant cast
Because of the pandemic, for most of 2020, I found it difficult to read books. Even some of my old favorites could make me grumpy or listless. And even though I've started reading more books again, I will occasionally stutter to an unexpected halt in books I'm loving simply because I expect something bad will happen to the characters.
The list of works of fiction where nothing bad happens is...short.
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry is a delight of a book. Characters include a down-on-her-luck, poor fire witch; a plucky and wealthy half-troll heiress; a pleasant, bird-loving old necromancer; and a skeletal undead mouse named Buttons. The prose--third-person limited, tight on Delly's internal voice--is unique and full of humar. Characters snipe and bicker and indulge each other and care for each other. Delly is a fully rounded character, which does mean she makes questionable decisions, which did wrack my nerves a bit! Waiting for characters to face the consequences of their actions: apparently torture for my brain in These Pandemic Times.
But I kept reading! Bad things happened to the characters, yet the book continued to be an absolutely great read! It gives me hope: hope that I can tackle more of the books I did not read during the pandemic, hope that I will continue to find more books out there with unexpected and welcome joys like an undead mouse named Buttons.
Lifetime blog tally:
Number of books read: 5
Net change in unread books in my house: +2
How it got in my house: Library hold request, made before I started this blog
Recommend: If you like fun fantasy with a vibrant cast
Because of the pandemic, for most of 2020, I found it difficult to read books. Even some of my old favorites could make me grumpy or listless. And even though I've started reading more books again, I will occasionally stutter to an unexpected halt in books I'm loving simply because I expect something bad will happen to the characters.
The list of works of fiction where nothing bad happens is...short.
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry is a delight of a book. Characters include a down-on-her-luck, poor fire witch; a plucky and wealthy half-troll heiress; a pleasant, bird-loving old necromancer; and a skeletal undead mouse named Buttons. The prose--third-person limited, tight on Delly's internal voice--is unique and full of humar. Characters snipe and bicker and indulge each other and care for each other. Delly is a fully rounded character, which does mean she makes questionable decisions, which did wrack my nerves a bit! Waiting for characters to face the consequences of their actions: apparently torture for my brain in These Pandemic Times.
But I kept reading! Bad things happened to the characters, yet the book continued to be an absolutely great read! It gives me hope: hope that I can tackle more of the books I did not read during the pandemic, hope that I will continue to find more books out there with unexpected and welcome joys like an undead mouse named Buttons.
Lifetime blog tally:
Number of books read: 5
Net change in unread books in my house: +2
