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"Three Dark Crowns" was hyped very heavily to me through podcasts and such and so I decided to give it a try. I'm usually not a huge fan of high fantasy, but this seemed interesting enough for me to at least give it a shot. The story follows three sisters, triplets in fact, who have been living separate since they were very young. Each sister is raised by a different family that specializes in a different kind of magic or skill, hoping the sister will, on her sixteenth birthday, successfully kill her sisters to become queen. This has been the way the Kingdom picks their rulers for the longest time. We meet all three sisters, and see that one of them is clearly more powerful than the others, and she is currently the favorite to win. This is the first in a series, but the big question is who will win?

I was fully prepared for this book to be a wild ride, and be like a three queen triplet sisters version of the Hunger Games. That's not really what I got. We got more of an inside look at the sisters and the world building here. It wasn't terrible, but also didn't keep me glued to the pages like other books had. The book was kind of slow to pick up, but once it did, the ending actually blew my mind and left me saying "WHAT?". I want to pick up the next book just because of the ending, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I am tempted to reread this book, and see if I liked it more because it wasn't terrible, it was just not what I was expecting at all. If you're expecting an action packed book, with little to no romance, this isn't it. That doesn't make it bad, just change your expectations so you like it more!

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I was SO FLIPPING EXCITED to read this book. After all my friends reviews and some of the little snippets that I had read I thought I would be rolling on the floor laughing when I read this book. Sometimes I forget that I have a very strange sense of humor and this book did not make me laugh like I expected. Boo.
 
Lamb follows the fictional gospel according to Christ's best friend Biff. It follows their friendship from kids all the way through to his death and resurrection on the cross. There's a lot of very humorous moments, and the book was actually quite well researched and I was quite impressed. You can tell that Christopher Moore really wanted to do this right if he was going to do it. 
 
This book was actually strangely hard to get through for me? I had been looking forward to reading this book and thought that I would tear through it ravenously, especially considering so many of my friends reviews. I have to admit, I haven't read a lot of adult fiction lately or at all, it's just not something that I've found a lot of interest in, I find many of the books long and hard to get through. I prefer fast paced moving books, and this didn't move fast at all. I was intrigued by it, and was expecting to laugh out loud and there were parts that I did, but it left me hungry for more. I skimmed the whole last section, just not really entertained or laughing. Most of the humor was sexual humor that just seemed unnecessary and just not funny to me. I recommended this book to my grandpa, which was slightly terrifying as I got to Joshua and Biff's adventures with Balthazar. 
 
I'm not an easily offended Christian, and this book didn't offend me, but it was just a little too Much for me. It wasn't as funny as I'd hoped it would be. Also the fact that my grandpa found it hilarious is really strange to me.