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Huh.

Nothing against Kiwi, really, and he is certainly having a time of it, but during his chapters I mostly wish that we could get back to Ava and the Birdman.

I am quite concerned about Ava.

Argh!
My physical copy stops partway through the second to last chapter and then just begins the volume again from the first chapter!
Nooooooo!

Ah, so refreshing!
A secret love confession and then an epic sports battle between Kyoya and Tamaki? Yes, please!
Volume 11 is sure to be good!

🪛👺

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Switching from the audiobook to the ebook version at Part Three because I just discovered that my new library card only does seven day (!) Libby borrows.

I could handle that with the ebook, but that’s not enough time (for me) for an audiobook.

So far, this does seem filled with fairly straightforward recipes that I would like to make. I’d keep an eye out for a sale on this one. (Mine is borrowed from the library, currently.)

Now there’s a turn!

“The House watched the three girls, and a thin line of water dripped from the ceiling. If it had been raining that night, it could have just been rain. But it wasn’t. It was dry outside. The House was salivating.”

I’m listening to the audiobook and it’s the same narrator as Convenience Store Woman, which threw me for a minute, but she’s really good, so it’s cool. 😎

Calling this a DNF at the end of part one.

Something interesting has finally happened, but I think it might be too little too late. A vaguely interesting mystery can’t make up for supremely uninteresting characters.

Yeah, I don’t know about this one.
I struggle when there’s no strong protagonist. This follows a couple sets of characters (either two or three), but everything after the initial flashback prologue just feels like pointless meandering.

It doesn’t help that the characters are universally annoying and I kind of want them all to get eaten by giant snakes.

Never an encouraging start to a novel.

Low-key disappointed that the witches do not seem to actually be groovy.

I can’t find any evidence that “bippy” was ever used as slang for cigarettes. It was slang for bottom or butt and cigarettes have butts, so I can see how the author maybe got to it sideways, but having the girls constantly saying bippy or bippies is getting a bit grating.
A very small criticism in an otherwise enjoyable book.

To quote a story by my youngest: no one was amused by the “barf bath”. 🧙‍♀️

There’s a point at which the trauma of the past can no longer excuse the idiocy of the present and the protagonist has absolutely blown past that point.

Kingfisher always makes you want to live in her worlds—even the ones with scary stuff going on. 🌵🦖

I have a feeling that this is going to go exactly where I expect it to.

This one is unexpectedly kind of a slog, at least partially because I don’t like the narrator. (Audio version.)

This is a fantastic, sneaky, and genuinely scary little story. It’s also immensely clever.

Oh geez yikes.

Interesting, but the audio version that I’m listening to feels like it’s being read by an Elvis impersonator.

This is a bit…weird? Not necessarily in a bad way, though. 🐦‍⬛🩸

This is extremely wintery, but not in a cozy way. Brrrr.

Time to admit that I’m not going to finish this one. DNF