What are you reading these days?

Copied and pasted from the other one since I apparently have impeccable timing for contribution.

After not having read any books since at least mid 2022, I'm back... and apparently very hungry. At least relative to my usual book consuming levels.

I read the entirety of "A Court of Silver Flames" by Sarah Maas in about 12 hours over 2 days, and then I started (and finished) "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman yesterday. I enjoyed both books for different reasons, and am excited to read the rest in the series, eventually.

CoSF:
I love me some romance, especially when it's full on adult romance (smutty :]) and not the piddling YA mind games romance. My sister introduced me to this series and I have loved it every step of the way; it's had some pretty good twists and turns through the 5 books, and had some GREAT character development. In my eyes at least. This book specifically starts at ground 0 and shows how a person might "unbreak" themselves after multiple traumatic events. Heartwarming (in places), heartbreaking (in others), relatable, and with some good action; I probably enjoyed this more than I enjoyed book 4 to be honest.

Scythe:
Reading this not even 24 hours after CoSF was a pretty interesting switch up. It's YA, so I didn't expect the romance subplot to rise to the level of CoSF, thankfully, because the romance was a _SUB_plot, not even sure I could call it anemic. That wasn't a bad thing though, as it left room to explore other aspects of the story. The world is an interesting place to be with 2 interesting characters that I enjoyed diving into the heads of. I think the next couple books in the series will dive a little deeper into the Sci-fi aspect which I'm excited about as it played more of a background part in this one.