Tag: Red Rising
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Things Publishers Need to Stop Doing Before I Lose My Mind!
Sprayed Edges I love a special copy, one to beautifully display on my shelf with detailed artwork. However, the solid sprayed edges on every single copy… it’s giving tacky! I talked about how this diminishes the point of a sprayed edge, making books less special. It’s also usually not very well done and makes the…
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Fantasy Characters I Wouldn’t Trust With My Grocery List
Lysander Au Lune – Red Rising I don’t need to explain. Backstabber, loser, traitor, Roque 2.0 but I could at least trust Roque with a grocery list. I am convinced Lysander would be so bored that he would utilize weaponized incompetence and not even try to look at the entire aisle. I wanted pizza sauce,…
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Red Rising – Per Aspera Ad Trauma
Red Rising by Pierce Brown KU NOT supported Genre: Sci-fi Trilogy. Continues into a second 4 book series. Rated 4.44 Average on Goodreads between all 3 books My Rating: 5 Stars across all 3 A series I told myself: “I won’t read it because it’s Sci-fi”. Red Rising by Pierce Brown is a highly rated…
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Slow Down! Reading is about decompressing, Not Bargaining your Reading Goal!
Reading Goals Setting a reading goal is like a New Year’s resolution, but you likely have an app to remind you of your progress in that goal. Then when November and December come around you’re only half way there and now you’re speeding to get to your end goal, but did you actually enjoy it?…
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A Series That Is So Traumatic, It Became Known For It
I am not a fan of sci-fi anything. I am not a Star Wars or Star Trek fan, and have no interest in anything space or math based. This steers me away from Sci-fi very quickly. After YEARS of nagging from others, I attended the popular author’s panel at Dragonsteel Nexus and decided to add it…