Took last night off to watch The Amazing Spiderman on Netflix. This wasn’t from my list, but of all the superhero blockbusters I’ve seen, the Spiderman ones are my second favorite, after Hellboy. They usually have enough banter amidst all the action to keep me interested, unlike the boring Batman franchise.
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The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
From #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab comes a new adventure set in a beloved world—where old friends and foes alike are faced with a dangerous new threat.
The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab is a review copy I didn’t finish before the book was published at the end of September. I haven’t started anything else, trying to finish this one!
It’s over 650 pages long, but if it’s like her other trilogy openers, it’s going to end on a cliffhanger. Set in the same world of the dark fantasy trilogy starting with A Darker Shade of Magic, it has multiple storylines (threads, get it?) intertwining with each other.
If you like dark fantasy about magic, with a long-running story, character development, clever dialogue with English accents, and high stakes – here, the fate of not just one world, but three – you should love the Darker Shade of Magic books.
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The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Finally finished the final book in the marvelous Neapolitan Novels quartet! Reading the first, My Brilliant Friend, was mentioned by one of the authors at the Boston Book Festival yesterday as a pivotal moment in her life as a writer, back when “everyone” was reading it and trying to guess the identity of Elena Ferrante. (He also revealed the truth about who the anonymous author turned out to be, which I hadn’t yet looked up, myself.)
I can’t remember how long ago I read My Brilliant Friend, which came out in 2012, but I entered it in LibraryThing almost exactly eight years ago, in 2015, so that’s probably when I read the first book. The saga never sagged for me, even over the course of four books and a long break between the second and third. That’s a long time for an author to sustain a story about two women’s lives, with all the multitude of other characters coming in and out, but always essentially on the periphery to their intense connection to each other.
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