We had some WiFi problems yesterday, because we changed the provider and they did new fibre and stuff, but the signal wouldn't go through. I remember that last year there were some guys checking the signals, and they said, in our house, everything was OK, but there is a disruption somewhere outside. They could not locate it because they needed different equipment for that. Then they said, their boss would check it out and repair it and they would tell us if it didn't work. It must be somewhere between our street and the next one. I had a strong suspicion that said boss never came.
Today, a technician showed up because we called them. Our old provider cut the signal and the new provider should have kicked in, but it didn't work. But now they are more motivated to repair the damage, because as of yesterday we are their customers and now they have to pay our old provider to grant us wifi as long as they have not solved the problem, muahaha. So, for now we have WiFi.
I stopped reading the book for a week or so, because I am relistening to the Dresden Files. And I couldn't concentrate on any other book. I am now at Battle Ground. THE Chapter is already behind me. I did some garden work while listening to it, and I managed not to cry.
Now I have read a few pages from the other book. It isn't bad, it's just that I seem to be spoiled by all those extraordinary books I've read so far, the DF included, that my threshold for "book that keeps me reading" has become very high, lol.
I am not sure if I told you already: the author (from the USA) asked in a language group about how to call a German village whose inhabitants were all magicians. Kind of a subculture. A bit likeHarry Potter where almost all the wizards live in their own bubble. She decided to take one of my suggestions, so I asked her to share the link and that I would read the book, even if I am not a fan of romance, but I like fantasy and vampires. And so I came to read the book.
I like the ideas and the story so far, but sometimes I am either annoyed by the main character or by them solving a problem in a much too complicated way while on the other hand they often got away too easy.
But there were also good exciting parts, like when the vampires sent a freshly turned one to kill the wizard equivalent of a government including their vampire hunters. And he succeeded. Only two of them survived.
One old veteran with sadly not much combat magic and one female kind of secretary who only recently was trained as a vampire hunter, because she has rare lightning powers. But being very inexperienced. That's the main character.
One guy (the German one, coming from the mentioned village) has been abducted by the vampires and now they are trying to free him. Of course he is the romantic interest.
Only now they are both prisoners. But this actually is the interesting part now.
The book is well written in my opinion. Definitely worth reading, but more by readers who also like romance, because sometimes the romantic aspect is very much the focus of the story.
So, I am just not the target audience. But I know my cousin is.
