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I've had little time or energy for reading this last week or even a bit longer, but I've managed to get through two books since last Monday - The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King and The House of Hades by Rick Riordan.
Neither blew me away but both were well above average in the enjoyment factor offered, so while I'm still somewhat in a reading funk, I was reasonably happy with both of them.
I must say, though, that as much as I've enjoyed Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians and the spin-off / sequel Heroes of Olympus series, I'm very much okay with the next book, next year, being the final one - as fun as the quest-based plot model can be, after nine books it's become incredibly formulaic and I keep getting a sense of deja vu / having already read this before: the basic structure of the books, at least as far as the plot goes, has remained the same throughout.
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