/ˈplanjənt/
adjective
Kizzy knew, but she willfully unknew it, and the plangent voices of the dead were lost to the drum of her hot blood and the tingle of her ready lips.
– Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
/ˈtôrpər/
noun
Now I’m shaking off the torpor, powering through it, rising up and up — above the road, above the trees.
– Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows
/prəˈpiNGkwədē/
noun
And, in spite of it all, Miss Browning and Miss Phoebe considered themselves as Mr Gibson’s most intimate friends, in right of their regard for his dead wife, and would fain have taken a quasi-motherly interest in his little girl, had she not been guarded by a watchful dragon in the shape of Betty, her nurse, who was jealous of any interference between her and her charge; and especially resentful and disagreeable towards all those ladies who, by suitable age, rank, or propinquity, she thought capable of ‘casting sheep’s eyes at master.’
/ˈlasəˌt(y)o͞od/
noun
During the days following Easter Sunday, he noticed a certain lassitude of spirit in himself.
– Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford
/inˈtransəjəns/ or /inˈtranzəjəns/
noun
The dream receded and left him there, in his bed, alone — stranded in the merciless intransigence of reality, and it was as bleak a truth to his soul as the nothingness of the Elmuthaleth.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
/ˌdeprəˈdāSHən/
noun
His spirit, depleted by his own depredations, pulsed too fast through his veins, twinning with a whirr and discordant jangle of… of disbelief crashing against evidence, producing a sensation of disfaith.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
/əsˈpalyər/ or /esˈpälyər/
verb
Flocks of brilliant butterflies moved through like schools of fish, and the upper levels of the amphitheater were espaliered with jeweled fruit trees.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
/ˈdōlər/
noun
The little girl ghost, Bahar, dripping with river water and dolor, told her solemnly, “Sarai can’t play right now,” which sent a chill up her spine.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
These are books you read in 2018, not only ones released in 2018.
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This book really disappointed me. I had been looking forward to reading this book for years, but kept putting it off for one reason or another. Now I wish I had kept putting it off…
Considering the little mystery and the obvious mental illness, I thought this book would be more interesting than it was. Instead I spent the whole time with a look of vague disgust on my face. Read my review.
I’ve discovered Yovanoff books are pretty hit or miss with me. Either I love them or I hate them. Unfortunately this was a hate. I wound up abandoning this book.
So BORING. The prologue to this book made it seem like it was going to be soooo interesting, but it really wasn’t. DNF.
It just seemed so rambling… I don’t really have much to say about it. I had high hopes and they weren’t met. Read my mini-review.
What were your disappointing reads of 2018?
/ˈfləmərē/
noun
It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
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