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I read anything that has magic / murder / mayhem ✨

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Dark Academia
Iconic Series
Level 3
Reading...Mister Magic
My Taste
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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  • Choosing Theo (Clecanian, #1)
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    Mar 30, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

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    Mister Magic

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  • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
    malintries
    Mar 28, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

    Loved then ending in particular, but felt the middle was a bit long for no good reason - would have preferred this one to be another novella

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  • Murder at Mt. Fuji
    malintries
    Mar 25, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

    This one was so fun! It's well written, and feels like a mixture between an Agatha Christie and the series Columbo, because it starts with the whole murder then we're left to discover how the detective will solve it, and what other mysteries we weren't shown in the first chapter. It left the reader a lot of hints throughout which was great because I love reading those Japanese murder mysteries as buddy reads with my brother and we stop at the same page to recap every now and then and try to guess the solution to the mystery 🤓

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  • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
    Thoughts from 40% (page 99)

    So I really want to like this one as much as the others, but I do feel like the full-size novels are a bit less good than the novellas so far, and this one is the same. There's a good 50 pages or so of exploring an area where there's a lot of technical terms used, a lot of observation, and not much happens. I feel like it could have been a novella, cut down on those 50 pages, and been a faster read which is partially why the novellas are so good... I also wish there'd be a recap at the start of each book with maybe a glossary of characters/names.

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  • Our Last Echoes
    malintries
    Mar 16, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5

    Entertaining but not as scary as the first one (Rules for vanishing) and the plot felt a bit more loose

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  • Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
    malintries
    Feb 23, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0
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    Honestly a fun, fast paced ride, will defo pick up the next ones!

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  • Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between
    malintries
    Feb 22, 2025
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    Short and useful - with some good tips here and there, like a much more efficient version of story genius.

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  • Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
    Reading Update from 6% (page 23) Chapter 1-2

    Started this buddy read with my mom - the first chapter was NOT for us lol, there's a lot of chaos, basically you're introduced to the main character who is a MESS, can't handle her kids, has a horrible ex-husband and doesn't seem to have a backbone to save her life, so I was very worried starting this book. BUT chapter 2 already more exciting, gets the plot started, and my mom who is halfway through the book confirmed the MC is way better after ch.1 and we don't see her like this again so it was a weird fluke that gets better after!

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  • The Drift
    malintries
    Feb 18, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0

    Holy shhhh*t holy sh*t what a RIDE this book was! Some of the best twists I've ready, ever. And so entertaining, from beginning to end - lots of action, without it being at the detriment of well-crafted and interesting characters. Bit gruesome in places, beware if squeamish.

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