Reading Challenge (3, 4, 5, 6 of 50)

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Multiple update here, as I've been lazy with updating for this challenge.  But, I'm still hard at it.  Let's see, for "book with a number in the title" I read Jeaniene Frost's One Foot in the Grave.  This series bothers the crap out of me, but I've bought, like, every book but one in it, so I'm gonna keep reading them.  I'm sorry, but that story story I read from this series--set later than where I'm at in this currently--had great, well developed characters and everything.  The two books I've read thus far in the series (Halfway to the Grave being the first book in the series) were both such shameless Buffy ripoffs.  I'm still waiting for those characters that hooked me to emerge.

Now for "book with nonhuman characters" I read Kitty Takes a Holiday by Carrie Vaughn.  Talk about a series that gets better the more you read.  The first book in the series (Kitty and the Midnight Hour) was good, but it seemed like nothing terrible important happened in it.  I've already stated in a previous post on this challenge that the second book was better, and the third book was even better than that.  Plus, it introduced a ship that I had no idea I'd been shipping until it happened.  Good on you!

For "graphic novel" I read--don't you dare laugh at me--Darkwing Duck: The Definitively Dangerous Edition.  Basically, an omnibus of the Darkwing Duck comics that were published by Boom!Studios a couple of years back.  It's been majorly edited to feel more like Darkwing Duck, and had a new ending--which leads into new comics, coming sometime this year.  I loved it.  I had previously read the first two arcs in their entirety, but I reread them to see the changes--which I loved--and the third arc with Duckthulu was so much more intriguing that I could ever give it credit for.  Like, for real, I was invested.  If you're a DWD fan, you've got to read this collection!

And finally--for this post anyway--for "book you started but never finished" I read Dean Koontz's What the Night Knows.  I had begun reading this book a year or so ago and dropped off around my birthday last year or so when my husband had bought me a new Vampire Hunter D novel, finding that I desperately wanted to read a new VHD book rather than this Koontz book, at the time.  Koontz, sometimes in my humble opinion, can make his characters seem a bit... rambly?  And it had lost my interest.  But, as soon as I picked this book by up, right where I had left off, I found that I couldn't put it down.  Truly thrilling, depressing for some characters to be honest, but a satisfying ending.  I really enjoyed it, in the end.