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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listening to TJ Klune’s A Wish Upon the Stars, fourth in the Lightening Struck Heart series. I’ve really enjoyed the characters in this universe, especially how the narrator, Michael Lesley, has brought them to life.

Just started reading: Ocean’s Echo, by Everina Maxwell. Second in the same sci fi universe. The first was enjoyable, looking forward to this one.

Planned:
The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fischer. By EM Anderson.  I’ve been waiting for this for a looooong time.  It will be a riot!

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske.  I have this in physical copy and I’ve been saving it to read outside in the warmer weather.

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I pushed out Ocean’s Echo as Wolfsong (by TJ Klune) became available through Libby. Finished it in a day. I love how varied Klune’s writing is.

I read The House in the Cerulean Sea first. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but didn’t run out to buy more by Klune.  Then I needed to laugh, like things were really bad here and I begged a book club for a comedy, fantasy if possible.  I was recommended The Lightening-Struck Heart.  Which, I found was the beginning of a series by Klune (Tales from Verenia).  I got it in audiobook.  It was so, so, so incredibly different than Cerulean Sea, I was surprised.  And it was, in fact, hysterical. The humor here may not be for everyone. I thought, perhaps it channeled the middle school sense of humor I didn’t know I still carried.  Man I loved it.  And it’s got heart and incredible characters. I’m in the fourth audiobook (the narrator is amazing here, Michael Lesley).

All that to say, Libby just started to carry Wolfsong, first in his Green Creek series, so I grabbed that one.  The book was, again, quite different from the other two.  The writing here, in the POV of the character he chose to tell the story from, was so beautiful.

Not the humor of Lightening Struck heart, but lots of family, friends/found family feels. That, that feeling of human connection? Klune is masterful at it, and, while his books’ stories and style vary, this is a theme he’s thread through all those I’ve read. It is, of course, a longing we all have, and makes his stories a treasure.

I’ve enjoyed going back through some of his earlier work.  I’m hoping the library adds the rest of the Green Creek series at some point.  I have Under the Whispering Door up next, one of his more recent novels.[/quote]

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