Knitting, Sci-fi and other stuff...

       February was a good reading month for me.  I enjoyed the majority of what I read.  Only one book wasn't a 5 star for me.  The last two "books" listed in the graphic above were prequel novellas.  Veil of Web and Ruin was 99 pages, Gold Glows the Spark was only 25 pages so it was more of a bonus chapter or teaser for the book.  Both were good introductions to their respective worlds.  Veil actually had some substance and set the stage for what it had been like for Rose in the slums.  It also pulled more insight into why Rose is so protective of her sister.  I wish I would have read both of these before the books they pertain to.        I ended up reading Bright Burns the Flame and listening to Web of Vows and Vengeance concurrently.  WoVaV was my first audio book and it was absolutely fire.  I'm looking into apps so I can listen to more.  I had a knitting project commissioned so I was abl...

5⭐️ 1🌶 I finished Bright Burns the Flame by Angelina J. Steffort last evening.  This was another ARC.  This was written in the third person which sort of threw me.  Most of what I read is in 1st person.  Even with it being in 3rd person we as readers really only got the FMC, Lory's perspective.  The world building was methodical, detailed, epic but not overwhelming.  Lory lives in the slums on the street barely surviving.  She strategically picks marks from a local brothel to rob.  This time she chooses the wrong mark and after giving chase is caught.  She's taken to prison, brought before the triad and will be executed the next day.  Moments before she is beheaded she is given a choice, death or enrollment into a vicious military academy she only heard about the day before from a fellow prisoner.  She chooses Ashthorn Ward.  She's taken there by the most gorgeous man she's ever encountered the MMC Khayrivven Falcr...