CandidCover TBR Wipeout Challenge – Update #1

It’s time for the first update to the Summer TBR Wipeout, hosted by The Candid Cover!  I wasn’t sure how well I would do, since I had to start work again, but I ended up reading six books.  I read 16 books last month when I wasn’t working, so not so bad (In my June update, I said I had read 15 books, but I forgot that I did a reread of Warcross, because I keep track of my rereads in a different place).

So these are the books that I finished:

• Origin – Dan Brown
• Ever the Hunted – Erin Summerill
• Caraval – Stephanie Garber
• Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas
• The House of One Thousand Eyes – Michelle Barker
• Batman: Nightwalker – Marie Lu

They were all good, although I only gave Origin and The House of One Thousand Eyes three stars on Goodreads: Origin just didn’t seem to be full of puzzles like the previous Dan Brown book I read, The Lost Symbol, did, and just wasn’t my cup of tea.  I think The House of One Thousand Eyes is an important book, because there is very little fiction that I’m aware of that’s written about East Germany during the time of the Stasi, even though there were a few issues with the book that caused me not to rave about it as much as some of the other readers on Goodreads have.  The reviews for both of these books will be out later this summer.

I’m already on the waiting list to read Ever the Brave and the sequels to Throne of Glass at the library;  Kingdom of Ash isn’t available (yet) at my library to put on hold, but since I’m still 44th on the waiting list for Tower of Dawn, I don’t want to be the first to get my hands on it anyway… I prefer to read the books in order.

I don’t really have an interest in superheroes, but I couldn’t really say that Marie Lu could write about anything and make it good if I wasn’t willing to test that theory out.  Batman: Nightwalker was certainly not my favorite Marie Lu book, but it was good, and I can still say that I’ve liked everything that she has published.  My daughter does like superheroes though, and when she saw me reading the book, her eyes lit up.  She’s been really depressed lately and nothing has made her eyes light up recently.  I’ll be loaning the book to her this evening.

So that’s my first update to Candid Cover’s Summer TBR Wipeout!  Will I ever completely wipe out my TBR?  Yeah, right.  Not unless people stop writing books (and that’s never going to happen).  But I did read some of those books that I see people always talking about and finished reading all of the published Marie Lu books.  So I’m pretty happy with the reading that I did do.