You know what? The first book in this series is still the best of the lot, but as a huge fan of the movie "You've Got Mail" myself (I used to watch it once a year with my mom and the soundtrack is still a playlist I love listening to sometimes) I can appreciate this new take on it. So 2.5 stars for the idea behind it and also for the fact that the story focuses on the two MCs getting together without immediately jumping into bed together.

I still have some minor issues with the nonlinear writing, but thankfully that wasn't too much of a bother this time. There was really only one instance that left me a bit confused as to when a specific situation occured exactly.

It was also nice to see some characters from other books again. But both of the MCs lack depth in my opinion. There wasn't a lot I could connect to and the fact that it takes them both so damn long to recognize each other from their shared server ... please, the signs were EVERYWHERE. Someone should have said "wait a damn minute" way earlier.

Also, I hate Sumi. Like yes, make your dream come true, but she is confronted with what her dream does to other people and she just ... doesn't care at all? I would have expected her to find some compromise at least or agonize a bit over her choices. But there is just nothing.

Men in Black meets The Federal Bureau of Control

This was so confusing at times and I am not sure I really understood what happened towards the end. But I guess that‘s the point of ideas that are too big for the human mind to grasp.

Quinn is the head of the Antimemetics Division, an organisation that tries its hardest to keep humanity safe from things we are not even supposed to know about. Viral ideas that take control, beings that feed on memories, creatures that emit a kind of psychic forcefield that makes them invisible to our eyes. Only special medication helps the employees of the AD to do their job. But how do you even fight a foe who ▇▇▇▇▇▇ as soon as you ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇? It seems impossible, yet ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and Quinn, with the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇ loss of memory, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ a fight that cannot ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. They are ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇, frightening, making you question ▇▇▇▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ mutation, severe side effects and almost certain death.

I must admit, it was a very compelling read.

That was a very cute novella!

The author states that this was the first novella she selfpublished as T. Kingfisher after only publishing children’s book under her other name so far. And you can definitely tell that this could also be a book for kids, if it werent for all the murder and war and horrible things. Before I started this I was kind of hoping that this book fits into the world of Paladin‘s Grace, but this seems to be totally disconnected from the White Rat universe. I wouldn‘t mind reading more from THIS world, though. Especially if it includes my new favorite elf.

You can kind of tell that this is an early work, but it was still a fun read that you can finish within a day.