Flexible - Ruth Buchanan

Title: Flexible (Collapsible #2)
Author: Ruth Buchanan
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 143
Date read: February, 2020

Summer's over, and Rachel Cooper is back! Limping staunchly into the fray, she's determined to develop flexibility in more than just her stiff ankle. With Lynn and Ann at her side, she tackles the challenges of the new school year with her own unique blend of panicked bravado. With new students, new classes, and--could it be?--the possibility of new love in her life, she's already got plenty to keep her flailing. But there's more. While fulfilling her role as director of the school's fall play, she begins to suspect that not all the drama is playing out onstage. Uncovering a series of unsettling clues, she works to solve the backstage mystery before the final curtain falls.


Honestly? I think I liked this even more than the first book in the series. I loved the acting, I loved the English classes (and got a small thrill out of the fact that I, myself have taken a class on that very Shakespeare play, given by the author herself!), I loved the kids, I liked that Rachel's relationships with Sharon, Lee and Ian was explored further. All meaning that I finished the book and turned right on to the next book in the series!

Leoniderne - Nanna Foss

Title: Leoniderne (Spektrum #1)
Author: Nanna Foss
Genre: YA, fantasy
Rating: 3/5
# pages: Audiobook ~14hrs
Date read: February 2020

When did it start?
When the old lady accused us to bring about the end of the world?
When I dreamt of the glowing hands?
When the compass burned out hands?
Or long before?

15-year-old Emilie draws a boy with turquoise eyes and a mysterious necklace. The next day that boy turns up in her class.
Before she knows what's going on, Emilie has triangle scars in her palms and her classmates have weird abilities... or is she just imagining it all? The lines between dream and reality are fluid, and Emilie is desperately trying to stay out of the chaos.


... I can't quite make up my mind what I thought of this. I liked the beginning and the end, but the middle was a drag. It was very obviously a set-up to the rest of the series - to the point that it felt like the main plot didn't start until we were 75% of the way through the book. Which meant that I was still considering just giving up on it until very late in the book... which suddenly everything happened at once, and now I'm slightly curious as to what will happen in the next book after all! Might just find a detailed synopsis instead.

I liked Emilie and Alban, but felt the other main characters were too 2-dimensional. They might be fleshed out more in the sequels though. I was less than impressed by the huge amount of swearing that went on, but have a feeling that might have been more blatant because I heard it as an audiobook, whereas I would have been more inclined to just skim by it and not really notice it, if I had read it myself.