July monthly wrap - up and August tbr

Well hello everybody :) I know I'm so late with this post, but sometimes life gets in a way. The same goes and with a reading. I confess, that my July tbr was too ambitious and I choose to many books.

Books I've read: 3
Pages in total: 1640

All of those three books belong to a worst trilogy I have ever read. And this series, written by E. L. James,  consists of:

1. Fifty shades of Grey 
2. Fifty shades darker
3. Fifty shades freed

I don't have much to other than I was cringing the all time. The main female protagonist was absolutely childish and ridiculous. That lip biting and blushing from everything, and I mean everything, made me almost mad.  And I don't even have words about that "inner goddess" thing....what the hell was that ?! At first I even tried to count how many times she bites her lip while blushing and thinking about her inner goddess, but I lost the count in the middle of a first book. 

And what can I say about Grey... well that dude need serious mental help.

Also writing style was less than mediocre, and the story line was meh... so I gave this trilogy only 2 stars out of 5.

After that I got into a reading slump, I started other books, but couldn't finish them in time. So I will finish them next month. And that bring us to the August tbr. As you know I planned to read 6 books in July, but that didn't happened. So I will read remaining three this month and those books are: 

1. The storyteller's daughter: a retelling of the Arabian nights, by Cameron Dokey
2. The Devil's star,  by Jo Nesbo
3. Angels, by Marian Keyes

I'm thinking, that I will be able to read them in the beginning of a month, and only then I will choose what to read next. By the way this month will be a "Bout of books readathon" and I will try to participate in it. I will do separate tbr for it later on. 

Short review of Mistborn trilogy

Mistborn is an epic fantasy trilogy and a heist story of political intrigue, surprises and magical martial - arts action. The saga dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of  prophesy fails ? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge ? 

Mistborn series, written by Brandon Sanderson, consists of three books:

1. The final empire 

2. The well of ascension 

3. The hero of ages

I guess my opinion will be very unpopular… but this series disappointed me. Although I have to give credit to first book, maybe because it was different from what I’ve read before, but it kept my attention, it was full of action, the characters were diverse and interesting, the world building was exceptional.

However after what I’ve heard in many videos on youtube, I thought that all three books will be something wonderful, something that will almost change my existence J But second and third book made me feel bored almost all the time I’ve read them. It came to the point were I couldn’t read it in the evening, because they put me to sleep after few pages. Main characters became boring and intolerable, at some points even ridiculous. Finally at the end of last book, I felt like I was reading the Bible, the writing style became too dramatic, and somewhat reminded me of that story, where God created earth. Actually, as I said in my June wrap up, only listening an audio book helped me finish third book. 

 In my opinion all of those books could have been much shorter, because sometimes there were unnecessary description of characters journey or  landscape, that took 1 or 2 or at some points even 3 pages. In the end I started to skip these parts and read only dialogs.

Of course I can’t say that I hated them….all this trilogy was interesting enough for me to reach the end and find out what happened.

That is it for now....Happy reading :)