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Seraphina

by Rachel Hartman

Finished 2018-08-07

Really middle of the road for me. Decently-written, moderately interesting/original world while still being familiar enough to hit that fantasy itch, but never really hooked me. Kind of curious to see how the stuff set up in this book plays out, so I may pick up the next one, but not right away.
Firewalker

by Josephine Angelini

Finished 2018-08-04
Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

Finished 2018-08-02
Trial by Fire

by Josephine Angelini

Finished 2018-07-26

One of my favorite genre books in a long time. Such an interesting world, magic system, political structure. It’s not particularly literary, focusing more on characters, dialog, and plot than on evocation or atmosphere, and honestly a bunch of its pieces are standard fare for YA with a female protagonist (I don’t know if the author considers this YA but it shares some traits regardless: outcast, “broken” girl is suddenly very important, torn between two boys, etc). Yet it still does a really great job fleshing out this world. I’m really looking forward to the next one.
No Second Chance

by Harlan Coben

Finished 2018-07-22
Age of Myth

by Michael J. Sullivan

Finished 2018-07-19

Entertaining and competently written. Hugely formulaic, built on tons of familiar tropes, beginning to end, but well-enough put together. I might listen to more. Early on, the freed slave gives this small out-of-nowhere Ayn Rand rant about the value of struggling to survive that almost made me put down the book. But in the end I didn’t get a ton of that—in fact I got some stuff that was at times quite contrary to it—so I’m happy to have finished it. I might read the next one.
An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

Finished 2018-07-13
Year One

by Nora Roberts

Finished 2018-07-13
The Death of Mrs. Westaway

by Ruth Ware

Finished 2018-06-26
Out of Spite, Out of Mind

by Scott Meyer

Finished 2018-06-25
Don't Let Go

by Harlan Coben

Finished 2018-06-22
Head On

by John Scalzi

Finished 2018-06-20
The Wife Between Us

by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Finished 2018-06-17
The Outstretched Shadow

by Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory

Finished 2018-06-15
Skip to the End

by Jeremy Holt, Alex Diotto

Finished 2018-06-14

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An American Marriage

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Don't Let Go

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The Wife Between Us

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Seraphina

Firewalker

Lincoln in the Bardo

Trial by Fire

No Second Chance

Age of Myth

Year One

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Out of Spite, Out of Mind

Head On

The Outstretched Shadow