Musing Mondays is happening over at Should be Reading and it asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
- Describe one of your reading habits.
- Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
- What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
- Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
- Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
- Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
I’m reading Kendare Blake’s Mortal Gods, the second in the series of her series. I loved, LOVED the first book, for which I’m going to post a review soon and I admired her greatly for doing something seemingly unthinkable — killing off the boyfriend of the main character. It made sense, it was brutal and tragic and it changed Cassandra forever. That’s the sort of writing that makes me sit on the edge of my seat for what’s next, in this case book 2.
Where unfortunately a line that seems to foreshadow the boyfriend returning because we’re dealing with the Greek Gods here. My heart sank. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but this is the main love story in the series, so returning him for the heroine to have her happily ever after seems plausible. The problem is, the death did exactly what it was supposed to — change the heroine and allow her to grow. Why mention bringing back the love interest at all if it wasn’t possible?
