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Rhea added 'The Color of Magic'

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 07:28:17 -0800

Rhea gave 4 stars to The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) by Terry Pratchett

Rhea added 'Of Mice and Men'

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:28:28 -0800

Rhea gave 5 stars to Of Mice and Men (Little Clothbound Classics) by John Steinbeck

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Rhea added 'The Bridge Kingdom'

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:27:42 -0800

Rhea gave 4 stars to The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1) by Danielle L. Jensen
I adore Lara, don’t really care for Aren (he was written fine, so I think that’s just says something about me) and I feel like the author’s genres of choice (fantasy and romance, stronger focus on fantasy). could have blended a bit better because they both ended up feeling a bit shallow and inconsistent at times.

I don’t like romance so it didn’t bother me, but I feel like the author should’ve spent a bit more time building the romance at the beginning. (And some scenes felt like the author kind of remembered that the genre was supposed to be partially romance (an adult romance at that) and needed to make up for the focus on the politics and action of everything).

Also, side note, I thought the political dilemmas were frankly kind of cheap. I won’t go into specifics, but I just thought that it was a bit weak to not take a firmer hold of the complexity of the situation, because the complexity WAS interesting and you can argue it was for the sake of a satisfying romance but the romance was so much more interesting with the complexity.

I think throughout this book, all my main issues were that I sort of just KNEW the author is a pantser, because of the odd organization of the tone and events in the book (I looked it up just now, I was right). It was never illogical, it was just odd.

Those are my main complaints, but it was good, I genuinely did enjoy it and the characters were well-written, and the dynamics of the world and the countries were intriguing and clearly had thought put into it. I just like complaining.

Rhea is on page 323 of 430 of The Bridge Kingdom

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:27:26 -0800

Rhea is on page 323 of 430 of The Bridge Kingdom.
Rhea wrote: I know like conflict needs to be part of a relationship for it to be interesting if the series is like primarily about the relationship but I literally just find the conflict so annoying. I don’t even care. (I think I just don’t like fantasy romance 😭)

Rhea made a comment on Rhea’s status

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:23:02 -0800

Rhea made a comment on Rhea’s status

I picked this up from Costco btw I am completely blind going into this

Rhea started reading 'The Bridge Kingdom'

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:19:00 -0800

Rhea started reading The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen

Rhea has challenged herself to read 15 books in 2025.

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:27:35 -0800

She has read 1 book toward her goal of 15 books.

1 of 15 (7%)

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Rhea finished reading 'That's Not My Name'

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:26:27 -0800

Rhea finished reading That's Not My Name by Megan Lally

Rhea added 'The Scarlett Letter'

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:15:18 -0800

Rhea gave 3 stars to The Scarlett Letter (Paperback) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I’m sure this was really riveting when it was written but feels like a whole lot of nothing right now. And I say that actually liking the way Hawthorne writes.

Rhea wants to read 'I Am Not Jessica Chen'

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:14:18 -0800

Rhea wants to read I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang