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Majel is 50% done with Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
You can tell an author spent so much less time on the sequel than the first one. Gone are the poetic beginnings of each chapter, gone are the particularly complex and dark description of magic or people. I mean, the author fast-forwarded, montage-like, thru the Shepard King's memories of creating the cards. Pure exposition. Not utilized well, such as for more creepy reveals or King's character development.
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Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

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Majel is 17% done with One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
How like how one review put it, "Big on vibes, not on details." I thought it was strange how I felt lost in what to imagine, kind of stateless and placeless and faceless. Nope, others agree, the author just doesn't describe the world much. A poor choice, I think. It makes the story feel very detatched. Ungrounded.
Dec 28, 2025 12:16PM Add a comment
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)

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Majel is 69% done with The God of the Woods
The ebook on libby has messed up the chapter headings and it says all the dates at the top of a chapter. Luckily from the first couple sentences you can tell what time period its supposed to be, but still. Annoying.
Nov 17, 2025 04:26PM Add a comment
The God of the Woods

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Majel is 43% done with The God of the Woods
Good story, good writing, but too many characters and too much jumping, both between pov and timelines. Im starting to confuse who grew up with what background and how they knew each other
Nov 16, 2025 07:53AM Add a comment
The God of the Woods

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Majel is 20% done with Yellowface
The ceativity of the rationalization by the protagonist for her actions is gobsmacking. My jaw drops. The shift in possessive language (Alethans book to My book) is both subtle and not subtle and so revealing. Well done so far, by the author.
Aug 14, 2025 10:07PM Add a comment
Yellowface

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Majel is 58% done with All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
This is great. Totally living up to the hype. I should have read this sooner
May 20, 2025 07:48AM Add a comment
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

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Majel is 40% done with Demon Copperhead
Quick notes before i forget:
- his quick work of finding how to make friends eith Angus is an astute display of his people-intelligence and survival skills. Also heartbrakingly sad
- his remarks on meeting his grandmother and then moving into the mansion were hilarious. Quick witted. Sharp. Unexpected.
Mar 19, 2025 10:26AM Add a comment
Demon Copperhead

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Majel is on page 44 of 517 of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The writing. YA sickening. "He's the most exquisite man I've ever seen. And living in a war college means I've seen a *lot* of men....Flaming hot. Scorching hot. Gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level of hot."
A lack of immersion into the world. E.g., a cadet runs screaming from the dragons and is scortched to ash. The reader is not given enough description/feeling to be afraid of the dragons to understand why.
Feb 02, 2025 08:23AM Add a comment
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

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Majel is 10% done with All Fours
This woman is detestable. Lying. Egocentric. A portrait of a self serving tortured artist. Fuck off.
Jan 18, 2025 09:42PM Add a comment
All Fours

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Majel is on page 3 of 336 of All Fours
Writers need to stop hanging out with artist types and them writing them into their books. I swear, if I was hanging out with some man, and he launches into a treatise on "how there are two types of people: drivers and parkers," I would stare at him like he had 2 heads and then laugh in his face. This kind of armchair philosophy that poses as creative is shit.
Jan 12, 2025 08:16PM Add a comment
All Fours

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Majel is on page 15 of 367 of When Women Were Dragons
Wow! The aunt was a WASP! How did the author know of them? They are so overlooked in history!!
May 21, 2024 07:57AM Add a comment
When Women Were Dragons

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Majel is 27% done with I Have Some Questions for You
Im very done hearing about the high school immaturity and identity formation stuff. I dont connect with and I dont really care. Slow pacing.
Apr 21, 2024 09:08PM Add a comment
I Have Some Questions for You

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Majel is 20% done with Who Is Maud Dixon?
uh.... what? protagonist is big yikes. Wouldn't wanna be in her orbit, dayum.
Jan 14, 2024 03:00PM Add a comment
Who Is Maud Dixon?

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Majel is 37% done with Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Can someone explain the magic rules to me? Hahha. So a scribe "cant touch or be touched by magic." But they can write magic spells? They dont "hear" books, or do they? They can destroy books with spells in progress, whereas regular people can't destroy books? And books need to be written by scribes blood, but also, books need the readers blood to work? Or they dont? Joanne can set wards, but herself is not a scribe?
Nov 13, 2023 06:26PM Add a comment
Ink Blood Sister Scribe

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Majel is 13% done with Finding Me
What a fucking legend, man. To come from all that. To be what an accomplished person she is todag. Damn.
Sep 05, 2023 06:16PM Add a comment
Finding Me

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Majel is 42% done with The Turn of the Key
In Jane Eyre, the person behind the mysterious locked door is the master's mad wife.
Sep 03, 2023 07:40AM Add a comment
The Turn of the Key

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Majel is 18% done with The Turn of the Key
I kinda feel like this has elements of Jane Eyre, Get Out, Parasite, Klara and the Sun, and M3GAN.
Sep 02, 2023 08:00PM Add a comment
The Turn of the Key

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Majel is on page 134 of 305 of The Only Good Indians
Wow twist. Spoiler
Aug 23, 2023 08:43PM Add a comment
The Only Good Indians

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Majel is on page 296 of 384 of Carrie Soto Is Back
Favorite quote so far: "We have all been waiting for the men's final to end. The party can't start until then. The finalists were Andrew Thomas and Jadran Petrovich, neither one of whom would set a record by winning. We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men." 💯💯🔥🔥
Aug 20, 2023 08:17AM Add a comment
Carrie Soto Is Back

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Majel is 50% done with Carrie Soto Is Back
Its good. Even if I don't understand a damn thing of what people are talking about. Do tennis people get this book? Lol
Aug 19, 2023 08:06PM Add a comment
Carrie Soto Is Back

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Majel is 27% done with Loyalty
Right at the moment that I was bemoaning how quickly people turn on others, and I was thinking, is this book just gonna be one whole bummer??? The author has Dante recall that in the Song of Roland, the protagonists die (foreshadowing?), and that the lesson is that suffering teaches you things. Well placed, author, well placed.
Jul 16, 2023 08:50PM Add a comment
Loyalty

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Majel is on page 170 of 368 of Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths
Stories like Herakles are a mix of origin stories, value teachings, and character instructions, so its hard to know what to get from them. Freeman is pretty funny, but I also wish he did some explaining
Apr 02, 2023 10:28AM Add a comment
Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths

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Majel is 36% done with The Bone Houses
I creepy story set in a Welsh backdrop??? YES!
Mar 25, 2023 09:51AM Add a comment
The Bone Houses

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Majel is 76% done with I Must Betray You
The part with him saying "We are Romanian, and we are better than this" to inspire the kids.....really, really moving.
Mar 22, 2023 04:10PM Add a comment
I Must Betray You

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Majel is 50% done with I Must Betray You
Oh Bunu. Awful. Awful. :( :(
Mar 20, 2023 07:05AM Add a comment
I Must Betray You

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Majel is 17% done with I Must Betray You
Absolutely a page turner. This oppression sounds awful. Makes me grateful that, at the very least, i don't have gyno exams at work. Communism's dream is a good one, it sucks that the same old hierarchies just replicated themselves in 20th and 21st century communisim. There were still the rich who got richer and the poor who got poorer. Much like what we have under capitalism. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Mar 19, 2023 08:52AM Add a comment
I Must Betray You

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Majel is on page 140 of 416 of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Honestly, I walk away feeling sorry for Sadie. A woman in gaming aren't valued and are preyed on. It's just gross.
Feb 19, 2023 08:34PM Add a comment
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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Majel is on page 57 of 416 of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
My eyes rolled out of my head with the Dov - Sadie situation. Im just so fucking tired of the bullshit women experience as minorities in STEM and tech. Waiting for the Macbeth reference.
Feb 18, 2023 03:19PM Add a comment
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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Majel is 50% done with How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
First half of the book is boring, skip right to the more complex considerations.
Jan 15, 2023 10:25AM Add a comment
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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