More DNFs for April
Apr. 25th, 2026 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThird and fourth DNFs in a row - it's not been a good couple of weeks!
The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst is an earlier work by this author - I loved The Spellshop and mostly enjoyed The Enchanted Greenhouse. This one definitely isn't in the same cozy fantasy romance vein - it's more action-focused and not particularly jolly. I unfortunately didn't connect to the characters and felt the plot wasn't very engaging. I made it just past the halfway point but then decided not to carry on because I wasn't interested enough.
To Walk in the Way of Lions by H Leighton Dickson is the second in the Upper Kingdom series, set in the far future, after humans have died out and been replaced by anthropomorphic cats. I really enjoyed the first book when I read it last year, and was mostly enjoying this one up until quite close to the end (barring the scattered typos and frequent confusion over which character was being referred to at different points). Then it took a really unpleasant turn in the last 100 pages, with incredibly horrible things happening to the characters and their animal companions and I just couldn't finish it. Which was a shame, because it's an interesting series and I would have liked to know where it went overall.
The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst is an earlier work by this author - I loved The Spellshop and mostly enjoyed The Enchanted Greenhouse. This one definitely isn't in the same cozy fantasy romance vein - it's more action-focused and not particularly jolly. I unfortunately didn't connect to the characters and felt the plot wasn't very engaging. I made it just past the halfway point but then decided not to carry on because I wasn't interested enough.
To Walk in the Way of Lions by H Leighton Dickson is the second in the Upper Kingdom series, set in the far future, after humans have died out and been replaced by anthropomorphic cats. I really enjoyed the first book when I read it last year, and was mostly enjoying this one up until quite close to the end (barring the scattered typos and frequent confusion over which character was being referred to at different points). Then it took a really unpleasant turn in the last 100 pages, with incredibly horrible things happening to the characters and their animal companions and I just couldn't finish it. Which was a shame, because it's an interesting series and I would have liked to know where it went overall.
