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The School for Good and Evil

by Soman Chainani

Finished 2022-10-15
Such a Quiet Place

by Megan Miranda

Finished 2022-10-04

By the end I really liked this but the arc is kind of weird: it feels like it’s still getting started and then very quickly it resolves and is over.
On a Quiet Street

by Seraphina Nova Glass

Finished 2022-09-28

Most of my feelings about this one are wrapped up in how it ended. Spoilers are not specific but will tell you what to expect from the ending so read at your own risk. It’s tough to read a lot of this book because it’s a lot of people being relentlessly cruel to each other and a lot of “they don’t know what we know” frustration, but while I spent a portion of the book worrying that this would be one of those “everybody loses” kind of dark reads, it wasn’t, and because the ending was satisfying, I ended up liking the book.
Wrong Place Wrong Time

by Gillian McAllister

Finished 2022-09-24
The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

Finished 2022-09-19

It takes a long time to get interesting, but I’m interested enough that I’ll pick up the next. It still feels a bit devoid of character, even with some big bombs near the end that seem like they should be shocking. But there’s enough in there to keep me intrigued.
The Return of the King

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Finished 2022-08-27
The Two Towers

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Finished 2022-08-16
The Fellowship of the Ring

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Finished 2022-08-11
Stranger in the Lake

by Kimberly Belle

Finished 2022-08-04
The Never Tilting World

by Rin Chupeco

Finished 2022-08-01
The Poppy War

by R. F. Kuang

Finished 2022-07-28
The It Girl

by Ruth Ware

Finished 2022-07-20
The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Finished 2022-07-14

Bad copaganda. IA as cartoonish bad guy, right down to cartoonish names. I’m sure it’s a product of its time. It could be worse, I suppose.
The Wife

by Alafair Burke

Finished 2022-07-07

I enjoyed the book overall but I do think that the eventual revelation that the women were lying, while maybe necessary to keep the twists coming and reveal the _big twist (which was an interesting if not entirely unpredictable one), wasn’t really twisty itself and is obviously problematic. I spent a lot of the book wondering if the author would reveal their politics, and while I don’t think the twist is an endorsement, it builds up these women to a real extent, somewhat intelligently presents all the things people tell themselves so as not to believe the victim, while presenting them in a way that seems to indicate it’s not a great thing… and then says “yep that’s right they weren’t a victim” and that sucked
The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters

Finished 2022-06-30

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The School for Good and Evil

Such a Quiet Place

On a Quiet Street

Wrong Place Wrong Time

The Way of Kings

The Return of the King

The Two Towers

The Fellowship of the Ring

Stranger in the Lake

The Never Tilting World

The Poppy War

The It Girl

The Black Echo

The Wife

The Last Policeman