The Literary Lucy

  It's been really hard to finish books lately.  I've started reading like three of them, gotten bored, and then put them back on the shelf for another time.  I'm not sure what the issue is or how to fix it.  It's like I'm just bored of all the things I used to like. Case in point:  this is a really cute book which seems tailor made to my specific interests and yet by 3/4 of the way, I started skimming pages just to get through it. Cynthia is a theater nerd just trying to get through high school.  She's working on a technically challenging project for her school's production of Sweeney Todd while seriously crushing on the male lead, Ryan Halsey.  The last thing she needs is for a demon to show up in the guise of the new librarian, start sucking the souls out of her classmates, murder her teachers and principal, and brainwash her best friend, Annie, into being his evil bride.  By a quirk of fate, Cynthia is immune to the demon's charms and find...

  Okay, we've officially reached the end of the Haydon books that I've previously read.  From now on, we will be in uncharted territory. Achmed receives an unwelcome challenge from one of the few remaining full-blooded Dhracians left in the world in the form of Rath, who has come seeking the six F'dor that escaped the Dhracian prison when the island of Serendair sank after being hit by a giant meteorite.  Rhapsody is busy dealing with a baby that can phase in and out of time while her husband, Ashe, is trying to govern a mostly ungovernable people and prepare them for the coming war with Sorbold.  Tahlquist has besieged the holy city of Sepulvarta and continues to muster his forces.  I really thought this would have more of a wrap-up in terms of action but it proves to be another stone in the journey instead.  I was interested to see how the Portia storyline would resolve, since I thought it had a lot of potential, and I have to say it did not go t...