Author: Joe Abercrombie Series: The first law #1 Genre: Fantasy Original publication date: May 2006 Book description:  Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government if he can stay alive long e...

Author: Mary Beth Keane  Genre: Contemporary Original publication date: May 2019 Book description: Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, two rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne—sets the stage for the explosive events to come. Thoughts: This started ok, it was about two marriages and two wives who do not get along. Then it starts to speed up as the children grow up and grow together. This was a slice of life, but there was drama coming and going one thing after the other. A huge tragedy marked them, but things are not easy.  Kate and Peter are the center of the story but not only them their parents and them even as they are grown married and having their own children, how even after tragedy you can't be perfect. ou can deny there are problems, you can want to not repeat other's mistakes, but you can ...

Author: Ruth Ware Genre: Mystery/Thriller Publication date: August 2019 Book description: Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant. Thoughts: This started with a few tries of letters being written. It felt very realistic. I had to read it in Audiobook because I did not buy it on time and after starting it I could not stop ad wait for the copy to arrive. Rowan is a very interesting girl, initially, it felt like she was giving too much in...

Authors: Carmen Leñero and Xan Lopez Dominguez Genre: Contemporary Original publication date: April 2009 Book description: There are no more lands to discover, no more monsters to capture. It's possible that even before the XX century began all buried treasures were unburied and all sunk ships explored. But if you build a ship is to travel somewhere and maybe discover that our dreams are found in the missing jigsaw puzzle pieces.  Thoughts: Emilio is a very imaginative child. He has a lot of support on his family and even being an only child he still finds ways to make himself busy. He has a very vivid imagination.  He had issues that he had not worked through and in his dreams, he comes to face things he does not want to accept consciously. It makes sense but still, I liked the way it was done. The only bad side, it felt to be too long, it was a very short book but it did go on for a while. I enjoyed my time reading it. The family here was not perfect but it was n...

This year I plan to get to several series.  I want to have a list of the series I want to prioritize for the end of the year. Let's begin. Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. This is the super popular book and tv series that most people have heard about it. I expect to love it. It is fantasy with a strong political intrigue with people going at great lengths for power and loyalty. Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan. This is another fantasy series I want to get to mainly because it is very widely known.  I only own the first three books so I will try to get through those ones and then decide if buying the next ones. The First Law trilogy, Joe Abercrombie . A grimdark fantasy that I was recommended, it is said to be darker than A game of thrones.  Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson. A Fantasy story about a world with people who have the ability to consume metals in order to augment their abilities.  His dark materials, Phillip Pullman...

Author: Kate Quinn  Genre: Historical Fiction Original publication date: February 2019 Book description:  Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. Growing up in post-wa...

Author: George RR Martin Series: A song of ice and fire #1 Genre: Fantasy Original publication date: August 1996 Book description: In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes of the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. Thoughts: It was a very slow read. I...