Can't believe it's been a week since I did this last! Of course, I did finish Beautiful Creatures
, and got halfway through Old Magic
-- reviews to come soon! Not to mention, I have a few ARCs and galleys in the pipeline that I can't wait to get to; two of them are from NetGalley and I only get those for 60 days, so I'll start those soon. I've gotten plenty of new followers this week (Welcome all!) partly from last week's Hop and partly from Twitter convos. And those nice people have also given me some more ideas about what to do on this blog between book reviews, and I hope to start working on those soon.This week's official Hop question is:
RIGHT THIS INSTANT, WHAT BOOK ARE YOU DYING TO GET YOUR HANDS ON (PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE)?
At the risk of betraying the genre of my blog-- Mockingjay
. I think just about everyone who reads YA fiction wants to know what happens to Katniss Everdeen. But just to let you all know, before you even think of asking me, I do not care who Katniss ends up with. In my opinion, the whole "love triangle" thing is the weakest part of the books. I want to know about District 13, the Resistance, the real aftermath of Quarter Quell, and more than anything I want to know what Katniss is going to do, not who she falls in love with. It's frankly annoying to me that a series like this, with such great worldbuilding and a complex female lead who has so much else to concern herself with, has become a battleground for yet more ship wars. Please, people, she's the Mockingjay, she's going to lead an oppressed people out from under a totalitarian regime-- there is so much more at stake to discuss than her boyfriends.
. I think just about everyone who reads YA fiction wants to know what happens to Katniss Everdeen. But just to let you all know, before you even think of asking me, I do not care who Katniss ends up with. In my opinion, the whole "love triangle" thing is the weakest part of the books. I want to know about District 13, the Resistance, the real aftermath of Quarter Quell, and more than anything I want to know what Katniss is going to do, not who she falls in love with. It's frankly annoying to me that a series like this, with such great worldbuilding and a complex female lead who has so much else to concern herself with, has become a battleground for yet more ship wars. Please, people, she's the Mockingjay, she's going to lead an oppressed people out from under a totalitarian regime-- there is so much more at stake to discuss than her boyfriends.
and Balefire. She is just incredible at world-building, character development, and suspense. Every word she writes rings true, no matter how fantastical the subject matter. I really hope that with 
and the Sweep and Balefire bind-ups, she finally gets the recognition she deserved 10 years ago. On the comics side of things, Matt Wagner has me absolutely enchanted (no pun intended) with his work on 
. I really hope the sales allow it to get the full 50-60 issue run it deserves-- or possibly even more!
