Books I've Rated 3 / 5
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Parable of the Sower
Finished
I enjoyed it as I was reading it but it feels like only part of a story? I’m going to have to read Parable of the Talents to see if it completes it in a satisfying way. There was no real arc in this—perhaps a rising action, but maybe it rises to something in the sequel.
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Bannerless The Bannerless Saga, Book 1
Finished
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American Gods
Finished
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
Finished
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The Incomplete Book of Running
Finished
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The Vexed Generation
Finished
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Why Marx Was Right
Finished
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Mr. Mercedes
Finished
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Rivers of London
Finished
I would never have read this book if it had been presented in what is apparently the American branding which is renamed “Midnight Riot” and features a low-pixel explosion and a silhouetted figure who looks like Vinnie Jones (the protagonist is mixed race and presents as black) and looks just all-around terrible. But I came across the paperback, with the intriguing map illustration and the “Rivers of London” name, and that made me seek out the audiobook (presented as Midnight Riot by Audible US).
It’s a fun story, combining elements of American Gods and other magic stories in a detective/crime structure. I’ll probably read the next one at some point. So I’m glad I saw the paperback, and not that terrible American cover, first.
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House of Blades
Finished
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The Well of Ascension
Finished
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For We Are Many
Finished
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An Anonymous Girl
Finished
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Pandemic
Finished
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Artemis Fowl
Finished