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why finish one of the many books I'm in the middle of when I could start a new one?

Not sure a 15 year old would use “reconciliation” in conversation, but maybe kids are smarter in Australia

“My entrails cinch together.”

That does not mean the same thing as one’s gut clenching. Your editor either failed you or should have been meaner to you.

I am invested, but I think it's mostly out of confusion. I do not like the way this author writes, and it frequently feels like I'm just missing lines of dialogue from the non sequiturs. But also, I need to know what's happening

Already loving the writing in this one

This book is kind of pissing me off. The writing specifically, not the story.

too many characters, too long, way too convoluted. I'm so ready to be done with this series, and I hate that because it started off so well

Wonder if this cites The Color of Law in zoning section.

Interesting conflict between allowing growth in cities and environmental conservation

Finally gave up on actually reading this so I switched to the audio. Then someone got a cat, and now I’m slightly more invested.

So like… when are we going to see Ransom again because her running around the woods with a priest who refuses to speak to her and a traumatized 6 year old is going to get old fast

I appreciate that they're going about this by critiquing the democratic approaches that have led to our current circumstances. I find it ironic that the utopian society they lay out in the intro sounds scary to me lol. I do know that I have an aversion to technology, and I hope this book will help me think more critically about that aversion and ways that new tech might be beneficial for the future I hope to see.

God this feels like stepping back into my honors block classes in the worst and best ways

The only reason I’m not DNFing this book is because I only have 150 pages left in the whole series, but damn to I want to quit. Lazy writing, bad pacing, and annoying characters.

Also one of the MMCs (why are there 9 again?) whining about hardly talking to his parents because of the timezone— bitch there’s only an hour difference between Geneva and London shut up

I'm skipping the first half of this stupid book because I've already read it in the short story collection. I'm mad that this book exists at all, but I also can't not finish the series because that's just not how my brain works.

This book is a money grab, and I hate it for that. I probably won't rate this one since there's on way I can be rational about that.

I'm so scared why is the rating so low

Started this after DNFing The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder, and I’m having a much better time!

this book desperately needed a better editor

Who hasn’t thought about jumping off a bridge over ~$2000

This last chapter sent me into a bit of a tizzy because what do you mean that we have one man to thank for pasteurization, the rabies vaccine, and the beginnings of the study of pneumonia, and yet we still have people disrespecting his work by drinking raw fucking milk again???

Thankful for this book for bringing LeVar Burton back into my life both in the foreword to this collection and through his podcast that I didn't know about. Very excited to meet some new authors alongside some that I already know I enjoy!

Not sure about the writing style with this one. Interesting premise, though if the weird eugenics ideas don’t get an examination, that doesn’t bode well

Banshee is my favorite, and I'd do anything for her.

Remembrance in Cerulean has been my favorite of the collection so far. Made me tear up more than once.

Florilegia
4 stars

Calls back to a few other stories in the collection; about being cut off, forced to be small, and finding belief in yourself and your ability to grow and change

John Hollowback and the Witch
3.5 stars

On forgiveness, punishment; the witch as a figure of justice
I liked the concept more than the execution; read very much like a fairytale; excising bad memories would cause us to lose a part of ourselves; interesting conversation about justice, how it’s achieved, and who it’s for

To Follow the Waves
2.5 stars

Beautiful story and really cool idea, but felt weirdly rapey? I have no idea how to explain that, but what happens in the story seems like a bad way to start a relationship, romantic or otherwise, and it doesn't exactly seem like Nahla means kind things for Hessa.