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This novel is way too slowly paced - it’s gone from cute and charming to kind of tedious and has been since at least the 50% point.

I was enjoying this book but I’m about two thirds of the way through, and the narrator is about to make the exact the same mistake she just made maybe a hundred pages ago and was a huge learning point, and yet she is in the middle of doing the exact same thing with her very next patient. At least show some gap between her making the same mistake.
Really have no desire to pick it back up right now.

This doesn’t even feel like it’s part of the same series as the previous two books. I hope the rest of the book isn’t just Rupert and Devi, I need the wider cast of characters to balance everything.

This book would be much more enjoyable if I didn’t have Laia and her constant need to make stupid decisions from book to book without learning. Was hoping this would turn the series back around for me (book 1 was so good!) but so far, just more of what I didn’t like in the two middle books.

Harry as a father doesn’t interest me - at all (I don’t think Butcher knows how to write it or Maggie). Now a volunteer is choosing to fight because he has a newborn baby girl. Is everything going to be through that lens now? Because only a few pages ago, we saw another father protecting his day care aged daughter. Also, where are the human women? Only Murphy and supernatural women get to defend the city?

You know it would be easier to enjoy this book if people got their priorities straight. Helene is the best one, Elias would be better if he didn’t keep getting distracted from his rather important duty because of Laia, and Laia is just irritating - pretty sure she is misinterpreting her role in the prophecy, and also I thought she figured out last book she didn’t need to be her mother, why are we retreading that?

Me when Jane packs to leave Thornfield Hall and mentions she has only 20 shillings: I get that you have pride, but he lied to you about being married, take the damn pearls with you.

So is it me or does Jane seem to have a lot of anger at points throughout the book but none of it is directed at Mr. Rochester. Not when he is dressing up as a woman to get her to share confidences, not when he admits to a wife.

I haven’t read this since high school, and it might be because I am doing the audiobook but a lot of people in this book like to monologue and speechify. Were people like that in the 19th century or is this Bronte being melodramatic? Rochester is definitely a mansplainer.

Really regretting doing this one as an audiobook- since these are blog posts rather than essays, some of the chapters are very short and I find my mind wanders only to realize I am in a new chapter. There have been a few that I really liked and wanted to take a closer look at but I realized that the ones that have been used in this collection have been removed from her blog.

Five chapters (and animals) down. Entertaining and interesting, but the fact that almost every chapter ends with, "this animal is now endangered/on the verge of extinction" it isn't exactly a light read.

Feeling a bit bogged down with this one ... Not sure if too much of the series in a short period of time or if I just don't care about this specific plot line.

I am really starting to doubt Phedre's designation of super spy - it seems like everyone either guesses what she is up to, and if not, she or Joscelin tell them ...

I've had this forever, and finally picked it up because it fits in with a challenge. It's definitely Star Wars set in Middle Earth but not bad. Although, I don't really like Saphira ... I like the idea of dragons, I just don't like her personality.

I needed a break from Doctor Zhivago which I honestly at this point think is acclaimed because of the circumstances during which it was written and published rather than book quality.

It's definitely a Russian novel - lots of names and characters.

Listening to the audiobook during my road trip. Poor misunderstood Snape. Really enjoyed it so far except I don't like the narrator's Hermione voice.

Cute but it's for a slightly younger audience than I thought. Or at least it feels much fluffier than YA I usually read. Though it's a completely different style and world, something about the character reminds me a bit of Flavia deLuce.

Good so far but between this, Son of a Gun and This Boy's life, I may on the verge of memoir burnout (Judy Greer doesn't count because light hearted).

I feel like this novel has all the elements to be an exciting and intriguing read but somehow they aren't coming together correctly. Maybe I just don't actually like noir style mysteries. I didn't like The Great Sleep, the one Raymond Chandelier novel I read ...

I'm further than I got last time I tried to read this but I'm not really engaged. Wondering if The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was just an exception because I don't think I'm that into Chabon. I didn't like The Pittsburgh one, I may have actually preferred the movie with Wonderboys. However, I remember Amazing Adventures being a slow start so this could still turn around.

I'm enjoying this but Rachel's rogue attitude when interacting with the FIB and Trent Kalamack is getting a bit grating. Does she not understand she might get more info if she was subtle rather than rushing in saying "you killed everyone"?

Yet another novel with one plot point too many ... It's like accessories - don't overdo it. Not that that is the only flaw but probably the easiest one to fix.

I'm torn - it's well- written, I want to see where it's going but the dialogue is ridiculous. I'm not convinced that people talk like this, at all.

Actually doing this as an audiobook - that's a first for me! But Harold Fry made me want to go for walks and this way it won't cut into my reading time ...

"I tried to imagine who I was without you" - you're sixteen ... You shouldn't know exactly who you are yet but you definitely shouldn't be defining yourself by a relationship ... If I had realized this was written in 1st and 2nd person, I wouldn't have picked it up.

I've read so many reviews for The Fault in Our Stars in the last year on CBR with no spoilers, and I managed to spoil it for myself yesterday while reading a random book article/list. Oops.