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2, 5 and 16?

Oooh fun yes yes!! I answered #2 in this one but here are 5 and 16!

From this End-of-the-year Book Asks List!

5: What genre did you read the most of?

ahahhaa broadly, just gay romance XD with the exception of, like, 6 books MAX the others were all romance. If we sub-divide that, though, my storygraph says the next biggest genre is “contemporary” with “fantasy” closely following that.

Ooh okay I’m gonna go off on my Storygraph side tangent because it’s so fun, I joined it this year, you can import your goodreads to it, and it can function similarly to goodreads in that you can rate and put dates read BUT you can rate in increments of .25 stars and if you choose to write a review there are more questions about emotional mood (you can select from a checklist), are the characters diverse, is the story characters or plot centric, etc etc. It’s GREAt. and tHEN you go into your stats and there are GRAPHS based on what you’ve read. You can see print vs digital, different emotional moods, number of books read per month, number of books and pages read per DAY per month, SO MANY GRAPHS! it’s SO FUN!

16: What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

OOOh this is a tie I think between two books, I talked about them both in the last ask for Disappointing Reads so I won’t rehash the bitching in as much detail again but (okay i lied there was a lot of detail probably as much as int he other ask)

Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune

Main character was a total dick and although he gets ‘redeemed’ at the end I didn’t feel like it was a redemption because I still didn’t like him from his dick-ish-ness. Also, the author had said in an interview (goodreads emailed it to me, thats the only reason i saw it) that he was excited to write a book with a romance between two characters who can’t touch because physical touch is weighted with such importance when people think about romance, and the author has said in the past he’s ace-spec so I was thinking AH YES THE ACE ROMANCE WE ALL WANT, but again I felt like there was little to no chemistry between the main characters, or at least, little to no romantic chemistry. There are definitely many, many ways to show intimacy between characters, but I didn’t feel that in this book. Now I wouldn’t say people were screaming about this book in the streets but TJ Klune got a lot of attention for The House in the Cerulean Sea (which I ADORED) and I was very excited for this one as well.

Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell

I had heard people talking about this one, and i’d seen people / artists I follow making art for it and everyone was positive about this book. And I liked it a lot EXCEPT for the way it addressed abuse IN THE SENSE THAT the beginning was perfect, it subtly and delicately and skillfully showed all the lasting (metaphorical) scars after an abusive relationship, the emotional trauma, and the way trust had to grow soooooooo slowly between the two main characters because of that. And then at the end, when the plot was getting wrapped up and the happy ending was here, all that trauma just vanished and wasn’t addressed again, where the author definitely could’ve used the same nuance that was used in the STARt of the book to show us a happy ending where they were together and everything was great but there were still moments where the past still haunted him. You know?

:steps off my soap box:

:and also the stool I needed to get up on the soap box:

Thanks for the ask my friend!!!!

#mousie rambles #ask meme #books #omg i get asks now

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