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Oof. This one is a struggle! I love witches, I love historical fiction, I love dark academia...but not much is happening, and everything that IS happening just seems to be in service of creating a tragic romance. Ugh.

I love RF Kuang and I want to love this but...I'm bored :(

On the one hand, I admire Johnson not caving to fan pressure and getting rid of a character she clearly has plans for. On the other hand: David SUCKS and I need Janelle to finish him off. Here's hoping that IS the plan?

Oh no so much ick!

Noooooooooooooooooo

Hmph. I loved Heir and the whole Ember series, but this one just isn’t grabbing me. I’m mostly here for Helene and the cat at this point.

Initial impression: I feel like this should have been ONE book.

Something about the narration is bugging me and I can't put my finger on it. Also I am beyond stressed that something awful is going to happen to the cat, so I may not actually end up finishing this until I can confirm Blue remains unharmed!

It's the end of summer reading, my brain is swiss cheese, I just need something fun and dumb that I don't have to think about. It is time!

If this twist at all hinges on "lying to yourself even in your own mind," I may just chuck this book into traffic. Which is risky, seeing as it's a library copy!

I want to love this, but it's leaving me sort of cold and annoyed!

Really can't decide how I feel about this - I feel like it's way less of a satire in 2026 than it was in 2021?

This is ok so far, but I can't help feeling like I might enjoy the whole thing more if it were written by (or in the style of) Carl Hiaasen.

Hmm. Already employing my most hated trope - when people talk *around* a past event in a way no human actually would communicate. And no, just straight up calling something “The Incident” does not make it cuter.

I'm still not 100% sold on the style, but it's pretty hard to put down.

I'm liking this OK, but I just cannot get past the inherent silliness of the last name Button.

It's finally here! And it's set in a city I've actually visited!

My god this book is torturously slow! It's giving less "slow burn" and more "repetitive bore".

Oh boy this is navel-gazey! I'm not sure I can actually get through it!

I am *really* struggling with this one! I want to love it, but it just isn't working for me.

Not sure how I feel about the format, but I am relieved Kimball and Kitner haven’t shown up yet.

Plane read. I forgot how much I love Julie Clark!

Oof. This is a tough read right now. Kinda wish I'd read it back in October when we all still had hope.

There are too many characters here, and yet I kind of hate all of them!

This reminds me of His Fair Assassin…except it skipped over all of the assassin training and went straight for the love triangle.

Teen book club selection. Oh boy am I struggling! I’ve never read any of the Percy Jackson series, so I’m extremely lost (I was mistakenly given to understand that this was some kind of standalone deal).

Maybe it's me and this isn't the right time to read this, but my GOD it is moving slowly.

This is cute (I love how Rowell writes dialogue...and inner monologue), but I'm already bored by this gratuitous wrenching.