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Thursday, March 28, 2024

We can do this, Pookie

Thursday

I finished THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah. I'm giving it 4 stars. It's not more than that because the ending was rushed, I felt, and sort of a deus ex machina type of finale.

March 1000 Pages Read Challenge

03/25: 108
03/26: 125
03/27: 278
03/28:
03/29:
01/30:
01/31:

TOTAL: 511/1000

I think I'm going to start THE WELL OF ASCENSION by Brandon Sanderson. 2nd in the Mistborn fantasy series.

They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. They have barely begun when three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows. It may just be that killing the Lord Ruler was the easy part. Surviving the aftermath of his fall is going to be the real challenge.

Published 2007; 624 pages

And starting A DEADLY GAME by Carla Simpson. 3rd of 8 in historical mystery series featuring Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe.

London, 1890:
It's a New Year, but murder never takes a holiday. The past reaches out to the unlikely investigative team of Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe when a man Mikaela was once engaged to seeks her assistance to find his young runaway son. What starts out as a seemingly simple case of following the clues becomes far more as the search unravels secrets Mikaela’s former fiancé intended to keep hidden. Mikaela is determined to find the answers they need, but Brodie can’t keep his mind off of his own set of questions…questions about this woman who is too darn independent; who aggravates him to no end with her lists, theories, and ideas; who puts her life at risk too often; and who may still have feelings for the man she might have once married…questions that complicate this already complicated partnership of theirs. When the boy's father is found dead, everything they thought they knew about the case is turned on its head and new motives start to take form. It's a race against time when the boy's school jacket is discovered with a note, and Mikaela and Brodie must work side by side with his mother—a woman who makes no attempt to hide her dislike for Mikaela and is determined to protect her late husband's legacy at all cost—sending them into a place where the hunters become the hunted and they must work together once more in order to survive.

Published 2023; 408 pages.