Novelization/Tie-Ins: Update, TBR, Book Haul

In honor of finishing  the Suicide Squad Novelization its time to talk about more novelizations.

I’ve done two novelization TBRS: one in 2017 and one in 2018

2017: 

Spartacus: Swords and Ashes~ currently reading

Spartacus: Morituri~ read and reviewed

Man of Steel ~ read and reviewed

The Flash: Haunting of Barry Allen~ still unread

Ever After~ still unread

Wonder Woman~ still unread

Mean Girls ~ DNF, I did not like it funny enough I bought Riverdale: The Day Before which I think is lackluster too. But I bought it so I feel I have to finish it, awesome.

Miles Morales Spider-man ~ read and reviewed. Also, go see Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse with Miles Morales.

Mass Effect: Initiation ~ on the fence about reading this because I don’t think I like N.K. Jemisin writing

Star Wars: Phasma ~ DNF, I just couldn’t get into it

Rise of The Isles of the Lost~ on the fence a bit about reading this but leaning more towards reading it because Uma and Cruz is not a bad writer. It’s just for the most part she is an overall eh writer.

2018:

Black Panther Junior Novel~still unread

Thor: Ragnarok Junior Novel~still unread

Spiderman: Homecoming Junior Novel ~ still unread

Alien: Covenant ~still unread

Kong Skull Island ~still unread

Love, Simon (or Simon vs Homosapiens Agenda) ~still unread

Annihilation~ DNF, I think the book is more literary sff which has been shown to not be my cup of tea. 

Monster~ on the fence, on  one hand it is good to see another book talking about police and black people. On the other hand I don’t know if his writing is for me having dnf one of his books. If anything I want to see the movie (even though I recently saw The Hate U Give it was a lot emotionally as a black person, it was a lot).

The Darkest Minds ~on the fence about this but mostly its a no from me. I liked Alexandra Bracken’s The Princess, The Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy(+) I already saw the Darkest Minds movie and thought it was okay (+/-) Sampled first chapter of the book it felt like average ya dystopia fare (-) this one is probably really going to come down to if I find it for cheap somewhere. 

Snow Falling ~ just got this from the library couple of days ago and it’s already a DNF. Only read a little bit but it’s poorly written and obviously thinly (very thinly) veiled reenactment of the show in historical time period.

Assasins Creed: Origins ~still unread

Charmed: The Power of Three ~still unread

Fringe: The Zodiac Paradox ~still unread

War for the Planet of the Apes: Revelations ~still unread

Battlefront II: Inferno Squad ~ read and reviewed, I made a comment in my 2017 tbr about  Phasma. Oddly, I’m more into the Star Wars tie-in novels than the novelizations or the movies.

Surprises Not On The TBR 

Now lets talk about novelizations/tie-ins that I did not have on my TBR that got finished.

Brave (Mini-Rant) ~ Hated it. *inserts In living color gif*

The Ghoul Next Door ~Hated it.

Star Wars: The Princess, The Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy ~ enjoyed it a lot. 

Girl Meets World: Let’s Do This~ surprisingly had fun reading this

Four Acquired, Four Unacquired

I want to mention  quickly that I created a 2019 and 2018 novelizations  releases list on goodreads.

Four I Bought

Star Trek Discovery Drastic Measures ~ wanted to get Desperate Hours first because Michael is the main character of that one but its cool. I’m excited to get a Star Trek discovery novel overall.

Riverdale: The Day Before = 50% through it don’t like it but is does read fast.

Independene Day: Crucible

Independence Day: Resurgence

Four I Don’t Own

Dater’s Handbook ~ excited its black woman authored, black main character in a romance, romance is rare in novelizations

Star Trek: Discovery Desperate Hours

Dishonored: The Veiled Threat

Warcraft Novelization ~ I really think that this story will be improved in a 300+ page format. This one has been on my tbr for a very long time the fact that it’s not cheap cheap is causing me not to get it.

256: The Proposal⚾

Synopsis

The author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when a public proposal doesn’t turn into a happy ending, thanks to a woman who knows exactly how to make one on her own…

When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn’t come as a surprise–or happen in front of 45,000 people.

When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn’t the hard part–they’ve only been dating for five months, and he can’t even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans…

At the game with his sister, Carlos Ibarra comes to Nik’s rescue and rushes her away from a camera crew. He’s even there for her when the video goes viral and Nik’s social media blows up–in a bad way. Nik knows that in the wilds of LA, a handsome doctor like Carlos can’t be looking for anything serious, so she embarks on an epic rebound with him, filled with food, fun, and fantastic sex. But when their glorified hookups start breaking the rules, one of them has to be smart enough to put on the brakes…

The Bad

From the first page I did not like this book but I thought it would get better.

The story wanted me to be on Nikole side about the proposal from the beginning but if I’m being honest I felt she was slightly in the wrong.  I came around after a while but *shrug* I just did not care

Nikole “Nik”, never did like her she just rubbed me the wrong way

I was so tired of talking about Fisher, the rejected proposal dude.

 Nothing happens= you would get chapters upon chapters with characters saying the same thing

 Forcedness

-diversity=I do not say this lightly, it just felt forced in the way that the characters were first presented

-feminism= Nikole

-relationship=No chemistry between the leads it all seemed like the relationship was in the beginning stages and not we are in love or even we really like each other. As a couple they were not cute or fun to read.

The Meh

There was some interesting events that acknowledged some of my issues  in  that I think should have happened earlier. It would have made the story better.

 

Finished a book off my romance tbr

(all images and the synopsis are from goodreads)