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Last couple of months (years!) my book reading has been largely substituted by short article / news reading.
In my defense, I can claim I was toping the charts on the app “Pocket” (formerly Read it Later) every year! I was a top 1% reader, sometimes 5% on the platform. So I did lots of reading, but as I said, it was mainly news and other type of format and content.
By the way, I’m not at the top of the charts any more, cause the app was laid down by Mozilla, the company who owned it. I switched to Instapaper, for similar functionality.
Anyway, my fiction/larger format reading suffered. But (hopefully) no more! I’m trying to keep up with my list.
Warning! Spoilers ahead... proceed with caution.
2026-04-01 /
2026-05-09
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I had the intention of reading since I bought this book, in october 2021. Yeah, finally caught up with it. Can't recall exaclty when i started it, probably around march or april.
I picked it up because the synopsys reminded me of some of the original stories I'm working on, and I wanted to see what it was about, what had in common with my own work, to try to avoid similarities.
So about the text, early on I figured it was a kind of teen romance story, spinning around the super natural. It's all well and fine, I don't have anything against it, I did enjoy it, yet I was expecting something different, less romance and more fantasy.
That's probably why it left me a bit with a bad taste, out of my expectation, I wasn't looking for that kind of reading and probably disrupted the whole experience. Maybe if I had better read the synopsys or genre, I would have known exactly what I was getting into, but I must say, I don't like to over read synopsys (or even watch trailers) of stories I want to experience, because even a small teaser trailer may have spoilers.
Anyway, this is the first part of a larger group of works, which exist in the same universe, and further develop the story and characters. And, as I just found a few days ago, this title even has it's own movie (a sequel was being planned out but it got cancelled).
Even as I didn't fully like the mixing of romance with adventuring, I did wanted to finish it and know where it all was heading. And I do want to see the movie, too.
I did find a few things that made me say "ah, come on, that wouldn't really happen", not because of the super natural or fantastical things, but maybe character decisions? I'm still evaluating it all from the distance. Hopefully I'll update this after watching the movie.
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