Sunlight-Colored Roses

I finished Lauren Kate’s Passion. The fourth in series is Rapture. The ending of Passion wasn’t so bad, but there was still a lot about the book I didn’t like. My greatest objection was the shallow skim of history she did. It reminded me a lot of how Alyson Noel described historical settings. Both authors had the main characters rubbing elbows with historical figures, the first ones that come to mind if you haven’t thought about history in a long time. I suspected that Kate did some research for the chapter set in ancient China because she included more specific details about the setting, but even then.

I decided to read this book I’ve had for a long time, Patricia A. McKillip’s Heir of Sea and Fire. It’s the second in a series, The Riddle-Master. I read two novels of hers in the early 2000s, The Tower at Stony Wood and Song for the Basilisk. I seem to remember checking them out from the library. My first entry in this journal, where I mention McKillip, was when I was still in Conroe, though. I don’t remember using the library there. Maybe I only checked out Song for the Basilisk. I thought they were a little confusing. I was very attracted to the covers. I loved Kinuko Y. Craft’s artwork.

This book has a medieval keep type of setting, which I like. The main character is betrothed to someone who has disappeared, and her father insists she wait around at home. She can’t go visit her friends or anything. He’s also very controlling toward her brothers.

I have been wishing I would get a library card and check out books from a Fort Worth library, but I haven’t done so.

I feel like I have dabbled in current and recent fantasy to have seen enough for now. The books are shallow, the writing like a first draft, the plots recycled from either Beauty and the Beast or Twilight. I have been curious about the Sarah J. Maas books, and I will probably check them out a little later. The preview of one of them on Audible didn’t leave me scrambling to purchase it, but it wasn’t bad.

It seems like I can’t get a library card since we’re outside of city limits of any of the cities, not just Fort Worth but also Everman. I think I probably looked into this before.