So I finished Pretty Girls – and was left underwhelmed. I like dark – and that story was certainly dark, but there were, simply, so many questions about how things were possible, who was involved, how those who were involved in the grand conspiracy. The best to which I can equate the story would be like finding out who all was involved in the grand conspiracy revealed at the end of Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, but the story just ends with Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — you kind of need the story to figure out why & how the bad people came to be.
After the dark, dark book, I chose to switch things up and head over to start listening to The Dwarves – but I’m still in the early goings (I have more than 18 hours of listening left). It’s Geeky. I think the world is likely more intricate than Lord of the Rings. So far, I’m really enjoying it – though it hasn’t quite…lit me to wanting to run all of the time — I have a marathon in 7 weeks, so I hope that something in the book starts to click where I feel that I *must* continue listening, meaning I’ll run more & more, or I might just pause things and move onto an old favorite.