we may have got a bit too close to the sun with the transgender main character who has an inherent fear of everyone leaving. i often don’t know how to feel about too optimistic endings but actually they needed this trans people should get everything they want in media. a bit jargonistic with baseball like i’m not american and i don’t care about most sports so i had no idea what was going on visually.

i had a terrible realisation at the ending that i would probably do this for my james who ironically enough was the person who told me to read this book. i truly think this probably garners a new level of appreciation if you are more familiar with shakespeare and it would be my pleasure to reread this with that insight. until then i had a wonderful time maybe sort of knowing what was going to happen but still being gut punched.

exactly what i needed fun warm hug wise. rachel’s writing is nothing special to me but i have such a soft spot for some of her character work and casey hicks has been welcomed into papa’s orchard. sure there’s some holes in the communication here and i am #anti tying people down before they’re 25 but a good time.

a fantasy world very reminiscent of one of my favourites although struggles to hit the ground running in the same way. i like our protagonist and must say am incredibly excited to watch her relationship unfold but i felt no urgency in this story until the last quarter. lots of potential and a series i will continue but i am praying the pacing corrects itself.

i greatly enjoyed so many parts of this and the character work is really wonderful but i would be lying if i said i felt like every single scene was needed i reckon you could chop a chunk of this and still get the desired effect what is this man’s relationship with his editor.

picked this up at a book exchange and so pleased i did this is some of the best character work ive read this year i felt like i was apart of this group in a way very reminiscent of the raven cycle in that i was less bothered what happened and just happy to be there

a great concept this truly could’ve benefitted from being a full length i appreciate these short form horrors but i need more!!!!

so many points for the world building and the otherness and horror elements minus so many points for the fact the protagonist made me want to put my head through a wall with such an exceedingly dull narration. would love to go back to this series but I need a more exciting protagonist.

beautiful prose. i found this is really what i am looking for novellas of this size to do. i didn’t feel like i needed to know anything else as that wasn’t the purpose of the story.

wonderful introduction to nosy gossiping icon jane marple although i failed to feel much connection to any of the other characters and her part was realistically minor. a fun but slow moving mystery i do so enjoy christie’s red herrings and twists.

i am very well known to enjoy a music biopic; it is a truly fascinating industry to me. unfortunately this didn’t feel like it had as much depth as others i’ve read and was more of a surface level skirt. i enjoyed it all the same, particularly the discussion of carrie and corrin navigating their changing relationship, but felt like it was missing that little bit of spark.

carrie soto is a brilliant protagonist - an absolute bitch and you love her! i do have to credit a certain film but the tennis world is one of my favourite sports to follow and tjr has such a way with storytelling that make her novels so easy to race through.

such a sucker for a mixed media it makes a book 50% more fun and interesting. nothing special in the reveals for me they weren’t predictable but just not groundbreaking.

have such a fun little time with these oldies it actually frustrated me a bit the guys didn’t get their time to shine as much (especially ibrahim, give me more ibrahim!!) these do really hit the spot of an easy read however thank you richard