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Natural Beauty By Ling Ling Huang This is another book that attracted me based on the cover. I wrote a quick little summary previously about how excited I was for this book's publication. Now that I have a copy in my greasy paws, and I had gotten around to finishing Kunstlers in Paradise I wasn’t so sure this was the next book for me. I looked through the disgustingly growing to ‘be read’ pile and nothing seemed to jump out at me. So I found myself looking back at the first book I thought of reading. "Don't be so unimaginative. This is America. And not just America, but New York, and Helistik. I can be whoever I want to be." The book begins with learning that the protagonist is working at a restaurant as a dishwasher. A Chinese 2nd generation immigrant whose parents share their love for music to the protagonist at an early age. Through their direction, and their shared love for music the main character pretty much becomes a prodigy of music, more specifi...

Starting off with Elspeth Spindle, a resident of Burden, who as a child wandered into the mist that seems to always be around the township. While in the mist Elspeth ended up contracting "the fever". It's said that people who survive the fever end up having a magical ability afterwards.  From the beginning of the story Elspeth has what seems like someone/something else in her mind, she can hear a voice. More than her own thought process, but less than another person. The magic caused by the mist is something that is feared by commoners, and is something that is hunted and by the ‘physicians’ locked up and destroyed. As I progressed into the book there is an introduction to two different sources of magic. There is magic that comes from surviving the fever, which is not completely understood. The other sources  of noninfected/fever magic is provided by enchanted cards, each card has a different colour, and symbol associated with their ability, and detriment. ...

Okay, so I think I have finally sat down and chosen a book that has piqued my interest. I have been humming and hawing, attempting to decide what genre would be next.  I am very much a mood reader, this creates a challenge in finding my next read. I can be excited for a book publication, but when I find that I have a moment, or a perfectly time reading gap,  I may not actually be in the mood to read that book. This all means that I have an aggressively growing to #toberead pile. I have a book from one of my favorite authors, that was published last year, I paid to have the book on publication day, and I have yet to read it. Everytime I attempt to read the book I read the first chapter, and end up putting the book down to read a completely different genre. I suppose at the same time I find myself discovering and rediscovering some old and new favorite genres. I started reading mostly police procedurals, it specifically had to be police procedurals, and nothing else. I found t...

The main premise of the book is about a book shop owner Ashlyn Greer, a rare book seller, who has this special ability to feel the feelings left on a book from an owner through what she calls echos. One day as she is going through a box of old books that a friend came across, she ends up feeling a great despair emanating from a particular book. After reaching out to the person she recieved the book from she finds out there there are 2 devastating novels both with feelings of despair associated with the echos given off from the books. The story is 2 sets of stories intertwined with unfolding as it is actualy happening, with a more of a realtime feel, and the other is taken from the found novels leaving a whole world of historical mystery.  I found that as I was reading the book, I was more interested in Ashlyns story, rather than the stories told by the authors from the discovered novels. All in all I did not find the main story and the other two discovered from the books too far ...

  The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff Set to release January 29, 2019 I have been waiting for months for this book . I have been scouring Netgalley , and applying for advanced copies, and entering into contests to perhaps get my hands on one of the few circulating copies of this book. When I was finally approved to a copy via Netgalley, the formatting was unfortunately not a decent match for my Kobo. So after the long expected wait I have managed to get my greasy paws on a copy, and I have already streamlined this book to be read within the next book or two. Initially while I was doing my research into the release date of this book was saying it was set to be released on February 5 th , but as I was finishing up Broken Angels by Gemma Livewire I found out that the actual release date was January 29 th .             This book starts in 1946 Manhattan with Grace Healey coming...

So it’s been quite some time since I have posted on the kobokonos, and I thought that I would explain as to where my head has been. Most of the books that I have posted about on this webpage were free preceding copies provided by publishers and Netgalley. I became frustrated with the webpage when all of my preapproved copies expired on my device whole I was out one day attempting to read a new story. So I left to read something that I had on my device that didn’t have and expiry date, which wasn’t the worst thing, but I started to go through the books that I found on my own. With a lack of a demand to have to post it looks like there wasn't much of a reason to do so. To be honest with you it looks like I miss writing about books. Looks like we are on the comeback tour. I was sitting at home finishing the shape of water, and I loved the book that I thought I would write a post for it because the book is beautiful. So in short it looks like I am planning on coming back and post...

The book starts with seventeen year old Eleanor 'Ellie' Parker waking up on the embankment of a river half in the water, in the early hours of the morning. Ellie has little recollection of the night before. She manages to get home, but throughout the morning she begins to find that she has significant bruising on her chest and arms, she finds that she can’t get warm, and cannot eat or hold anything down when she eats. After no food, no sleep, and no experience of pain since awakening on the river embankment, Ellie becomes convinced that she died that night. She has no explanation as to how she is still conscious and functioning as she did prior to the forgotten night. Ellie and her family lives in a small town where gossip appears to be one of the main currencies. Nothing is private in the town, and for anything that is a well kept secret, becomes embellished beyond belief through rumours, and lies. Ellie’s brother Oliver has been the centre of scrutiny in the previous y...

After I finished Jillian Cantors The Lost Letter I picked up Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews. The first book of the Red Sparrow trilogy. I rated this book ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 on my goodreads account which generally means that the book couldn't get much better, but usually lacking an emotional connection with the book. When I finished this series, I didn't have to tame time before choosing the next book to read. I'm not usually one to pick up a present day espionage book, let alone take on a trilogy. What really had me is that I kept seeing all of the trailers for the first movie. Once I ackowledged that it was going to be a movie I couldn't seem to get away from the book reviews. From there I was hooked, and I kmew that I had to read the books before they became films. I could have just waited and watched the movie when it came out, but the adaptations are never as good as the book is. Nathaniel Nash the rising CIA handler of high value informants within the Russian intelligence...