Marion by Leah Rowan
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. The first part 30 percent of the book I thought was really good, but then it started to just kind of spiral and I didn’t believe anything that was happening. After a while it just felt like Rowan wanted to keep upping the kill count, no matter how absurd it started to get. I also didn’t buy the ending even a little. For something that was supposed to […]
Gigs by Mark Mosedale and Si Smith
Right now, I really dislike Mark Mosedale, Si Smith,Top Shelf Productions, and the person who sent me the reader’s copy of Gigs by Smosedale and illustrated by Smith. I dislike you because you made me feel all the emotions at once. You made me unable to put my reader copy down. You made me want to finish before it comes out mid-June 2026 so I can get it on release day, stand at the front doors and tell customers, “You ain’t leaving until you buy […]
The Children by Melissa Albert
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I didn’t really enjoy Albert’s Hazelwood, but had hopes for this one, but again, I think she has issues with one with the book premise sounding great, and then the execution not really working. I had similar issues with the characters not really drawing you in as you read. I know I was supposed to see Guinevere’s mother Edith as dark figure (she gets mentioned as being similar […]
Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal
Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I was sitting here thinking about how I should rate this, and I just really, really enjoyed myself, so I’m rounding this 4.5 star book up to five. Perhaps it is because there are two cats in here and one of them is a black one, and perhaps it is because of the ending, but regardless, I’m doing it, and I have no regrets. I liked the first […]
You First by Caroline Kepnes
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. There was zero need for this book. I have zero idea why it was written unless Caroline Kepnes wanted to really write about Sex and the City. All this book does is make you hate Joe some more. There’s no special insight into him at all at the age of 17. He’s still insane and falls in love with someone and does whatever it takes to keep them away […]
Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer
Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Continuing my recent trend of perfect little genre novellas*, Obstetrix was exactly what I was wanting it to be. We follow Liz, a doctor who was recently prosecuted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota (the jury deemed her not guilty). Fresh off being traumatized, she is then kidnapped by a Christian fundamentalist cult to be their OBGYN. *A short novel? It’s just over 200 pages, my cutoff for […]
