Show Us Your Books Link-Up: April 2018

It's the best day of the month!!! Bloggy-wise anyway, in my humble opinion. It's the day of the Show Us Your Books link-up, where we talk about all the good/bad/ugly books we've read in the past month.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 

I will probably end up doing a separate post and specific blog review, because...it deserves it. But the short version that I put on Goodreads right after finishing is:

This book made me feel A LOT OF FEELINGS. It’s an honest and plain look at poverty and family and pride and conformity and nonconformity and values and self-sufficiency and addiction and determination and culture. It examines a life that we rarely read or hear about, but that many people in America live daily. It acknowledges the good, bad, and ugly- which is important because all people and lives have a little of each.  

READ IT NOW. 

★★★★★

Finding Georgina by Colleen Faulkner

I enjoyed this book...but I didn't love it. Decent family drama...some things were done well and others could have been handled much better- well, not even better but more in depth. It passed the time fine until the end which really pissed me off. The author may have been trying to do something worthwhile but it feel incredibly flat to me. Passed the time okay but don't rush to it. 

★★★

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson is awesome on Twitter, let's just get that out of the way. I became aware of her through John Green, and enjoyed one of her earlier books. I was halfway spoiled on this, mainly because I didn't know it was the first in a series. Someone online commented about guessing the "big twist" leading to the next book so I kept trying to guess the twist or see if it really was that easy and I hate doing that. I generally don't try to see what's happening in a book, I prefer to just let it happen without too much expectation. So that warped my view- but overall this was a really interesting story and I will definitely pick up the rest of the series. It's sort of a Sherlock-meets-Harry Potter-meets-Breakfast Club YA, and I dug it.

★★★★★

The Master Magician by Charlie Holmberg

This is the final book in the Paper Magician trilogy. It has been a while since I read the first two books, but I saw this at the library and wanted to finish the set. It was really enjoyable, as the first two were. The world and ways of magic are really interesting, and I almost wish there would be more. Definitely feel like there is a lot more that could be written, and also a little curious about Bennett & Mg. Prit...

What have you been reading this month? 

Link-up & let us know!