Busy Days

I've gotten a fair bit of reading done so far this week.

Much of my time has been spent finishing/reading most of Phoenix Transformed. As I expected, it was fun to read - and easy to get lost in that whole world. Although there'd been hints at it, I wasn't actually expecting the Mageprice for Calling Kareta to be quite what it was. Both Harrier and Tiercel were keeping secrets from each other throughout much of the story, I'm not sure everything would have worked out properly if they hadn't; similar, I suppose, to the eventual correctness (most likely) to the Elves' official action/help. I suspected that Ancaladar would come back - but not quite the way he did. I like that though - surprises can be nice.

After finishing that book this afternoon, I decided that I wasn't ready to go downstairs and watch some of the TV show I have checked out from the library right now, so instead, I stayed in bed and started Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia by Brandon Sanderson. I've already read the first two books in this series and thoroughly look forward to the next one (or more likely two - as there were hints in this one that there were to be five books (or I suppose, at least five books)). The Smedry's are quite amusing people and Alcatraz gets into such trouble at times. Also, I love their Talents. This series seems a lot like a blend of Harry Potter and the Series of Unfortunate Events. I would recommend this to everyone!

Having finished that, I'm now in the middle of Kate by Jean Little. I'm enjoying it so far - even if it's not the book I was expected. I missed, when getting the book, that the back is describing the preceding book, not this one. I'm going to have to find the other one soon I think; I'm still interested in that story too.