This was such a fun sequel to Last Sun! It had all the fun world-building and magic as the first book, plenty of character development and quiet beats to further flesh out both the story and characters, and still managed to pack in lots of action. The stakes are even higher in this book than the first and we get to learn a lot more about the Arcana, and boy howdy are they cool. The Hanged Man himself was such a deliciously creepy and imaginative villain. I really hope we get another book in this series - while this book had a strong ending it left me wanting to see what comes next for our heroes.

Seven Hanged was exactly why I like the Little Black Classics! I had never even heard of the author, and the subject of the book was so dark (the final weeks/days of seven people condemned to death) but I really liked it.

Russian books always have this kind of depressing atmosphere, and Seven Hanged even more, but it really worked well for me. It was very interesting and also very sad, especially the end.

Recommended - but maybe not a good read at this time because it is slightly depressing.

~Little Black Classics #104~

The stories are very well written and engrossing but they are at times too disturbing and gruesome (although that was the point...) for me. An excellent writer for creating an atmosphere of suspense and horror.

A fitting sequel to "The Blade Itself", this second part of the trilogy is entertaining, engaging and well-written with plenty of character development. It concerns a few story-lines:

Ninefingers, along with Jesal, Bayaz, Quai  and Ferro, travel West ot find a weapon to use in the forthcoming war.
Colonel West, Dogman and his crew, travel North to confront Bethod's armies.
Superior Glotka travels South to help save the city of Dagoska from the Gurkish invasion.

There's a lot of fighting and battles so, if you get bored of these, this may not interest you for long.
All to be resolved in the third volume.

Another not-so-stellar month in getting through my TBR. I need to think of these monthly TBRs as more of a rolling wish list than anything I might actually get through. One of my problems is that I do not include audiobooks when I am making my monthly TBR. Though I listen to at least a couple audiobooks each month, they tend to be selected at random based on what's available, so that's usually two books read but not two books crossed off the TBR necessarily. 

Anyway, for September, I said that I was going to focus on NetGalley books. Well, that didn't happen, so I've created a NetGalley TBR to help kick my butt on some of these.

Once again I only completed four books that were actually on my monthly TBR, so I'm starting to feel like an utter failure. I also really just need to make more time to read. I feel like a part of me is missing when I haven't escaped in enough good books.

September Reading Roundup:

Audiobooks:

March

Under a War Torn Sky

The Old Brown Suitcase

NetGalley:

none - that's right, none

More Historical than Fiction:

Game of Kings

Indie Authors:

Half Hanged Man