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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28 (discuss.online)
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Back to reading Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (first book in her October Daye urban fantasy series). Only read couple of pages, but things are setting down so should be getting back to reading more.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

I have been continuing with "The Remaining" books.

I finished the main story arc and it was a good time. I really enjoyed it.

I then went on to the book "Sanctuary" which is a standalone story set in the same world but 6 years later following an entirely new set of characters and ideas and it was easily the best book so far! I thought it was a really great story that expanded on the concepts and universe further and I just couldn't stop listening. I was absolutely glued to it through out its entirety!

And today I finished "Abe" which was another standalone book follow one of the more minor characters from the main story arc, again in the future of that main story. This couldn't be more different from sanctuary and was a load of shit to be perfectly honest. I didnt particularly care about the character Abe to begin with but this book made no sense. It was basically a US army squad vs the cartel book where in the infected had no role to play in the book. They were mentioned twice and featured for about 3 minutes and to no consequence to the story so there seemed no point to set this story in this universe at all.

Not only that it wasn't even a great story. Basically I slogged through to the end waiting for shit to go down with infected that never happened. If you read The Remaining, skip this load of shit!

Next up I'm going to read book 0.5 which i believe is a prologue to the main story arc!