Not since I first read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix back in 2003 have I encountered a book to so effectively emulate the experience of riding a rollercoaster. Except, instead of sharp drops in gravity and terrifying falls while barely secured to open seats of plastic and metal messing with your innate human fear of heights and your body’s sense of the space-time continuum, it’s just the words and your imagination making your emotions go all whoopity fuck over the place. Golden Son […]
Per aspera ad astra.
Through hardships to the stars. Christ. I just finished Golden Son a few minutes ago. And I am exhausted. The sequel to the amazing Red Rising, Golden Son picks up the story a few years after the events of the first book. And then the action LITERALLY never stops. Each time something completely nuts would happen, and a chapter would end, I’d say to myself, “well. there’s no way he can top that.” And then I’d read the next chapter. AND MY GOD, PIERCE BROWN WOULD TOP […]
Titles Are the Worst Part of Everything
So. This is my first attempt at a Cannonball Read book review. I suppose I could have looked at the plethora of reviews that are already out there from people with actual experience. But no. Research is for losers. I prefer to either fail spectacularly or just sort of kinda do it well enough to not be the worst thing ever. Most of my books that I am able to make my way through will be absorbed via audiobook, so whether I used my eyes […]