Books I Read in 2022

#2 – Graceling, by Kristin Cashore

• #rereadathon 2022
• Rating: 4/5 stars

Re-read, Re-review:

Almost exactly three years later, I still enjoyed this and don’t feel the need to change my rating. This time around, I picked up even more on the strange pacing and thinness of some of the world-building; the apparent climax of the main plot comes early and somewhat unexpectedly, in a blink-and-you’ll miss it moment of action. Then what should be a simple denouement takes a long, long time to wrap up the book. It feels as though the political intrigue is the barest excuse to have a book where people hide out in the wilderness and face injury and death, and also fall in love. Which, I want to stress, is not necessarily a bad thing, because Katsa is still an interesting character and Po is still a darling. If anything, I liked Bitterblue even better upon rereading, so the final two Parts of the book were no hardship. But that first one still feels weak in comparison, and the Council a weak conceit that doesn’t really stand up to what the story asks it to be.

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2022 Reading Goals:

1. Clear my entire owned backlog (65 books across 2019-2021.)
2. Read at least 100 books overall (that’s what I set my Goodreads challenge at.)
3. FinishThe Expanse. I need to buy the final book.
4. Also finish some other series as well, hopefully, but which ones are going to depend on mood and book availability through the library, to keep costs down. The Graceling Realm is a high priority though, because I still haven’t read Winterkeep.

yay winterkeep!!!

I actually just started rereading Graceling today for the rereadathon this month. So yeah, this is probably happening. I should check and see if the library has Winterkeep, now that I can go physically again and not just use Hoopla.

“I never wished I was a mind reader before I knew you, you know that, Sparks”

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