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Woman on the Edge of Time

by Marge Piercy

Finished 2022-06-23
The Seep

by Chana Porter

Finished 2022-06-17
Infinite

by Brian Freeman

Finished 2022-06-16
Fevered Star

by Rebecca Roanhorse

Finished 2022-06-09

I enjoyed it but it suffers a bit from “book two” syndrome, where a clear purpose and arc to the plot is lacking, as characters kind of just maneuver around the board after the last book and setting up the next.
The Violence

by Delilah S. Dawson

Finished 2022-05-30
Greenwich Park

by Katherine Faulkner

Finished 2022-05-18
The Downstairs Neighbor

by Helen Cooper

Finished 2022-05-14

I enjoyed it. As it wrapped up though, there was a bit too much going on. Too many red herrings or dark secrets. Even though that’s kind of what these books are about, it was just a little too much. Still fun though.
The Golden Couple

by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Finished 2022-05-11
The Banneret

by Duncan M. Hamilton

Finished 2022-05-05
The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Finished 2022-04-30
The Squire

by Duncan M. Hamilton

Finished 2022-04-27
The EmployeesA Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

by Olga Ravn

Finished 2022-04-16

I don’t think I understood this book. I found it interesting, written in a way where the topic was kind of danced around rather than directly explained, but then it ended and I don’t know that I understood what was being danced around, for the most part.
Manhunt

by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Finished 2022-04-15

This one was pretty challenging in some ways for me, as a straight, cis man—not because the cis men have become zombies, but because the life experiences I was reading about were vastly different from my own, and in some ways, unfamiliar or new to me and in others, just hard to hear about because I know how real some of that trauma etc is. The characters and the plot were novel and entertaining. I rooted for the protagonists and enjoyed their victories. I also appreciated some of the winks—I think some of the characters traveled through Derry, Maine (? maybe I misheard, listening on audiobook), and the terfs’ warship was named the Galbraith, an obvious nod to JKR’s pseudonym which I understand itself is a nod to a historical transphobe of some kind?

The narrator mispronounced Worcester, which is basically a crime for a book set in New England.
The One

by John Marrs

Finished 2022-04-07

This was a kind of exercise with a fun concept that was handled well from start to finish and managed to build a decent feeling of story arc despite the disparate casts of characters.
A Conjuring of Assassins

by Cate Glass

Finished 2022-04-01

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Woman on the Edge of Time

The Seep

Infinite

Fevered Star

The Violence

Greenwich Park

The Downstairs Neighbor

The Golden Couple

The Banneret

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Squire

The EmployeesA Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

Manhunt

The One

A Conjuring of Assassins