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The Midnight Bookshop

Amanda James

4.25

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fabulous merger of Women's Fiction, Found community / Family and personal growth, with a Magical Bookstore to pull in a hint of fantasy. Magical Realism at its finest.

Stone and Sky

Ben Aaronovitch

4.0

adventurous challenging dark funny lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

A New Lease on Death

Olivia Blacke

4.0

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Engineer's Odyssey

Erin Ampersand

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I read this originally on Royal Road, after bingeing the Apocalypse Parenting books 1-3. This book begins at the same time as book #1 and ends shortly after book #3, and is told from the the POV of Vince, Meghan's husband. I loved this story. It doesn't have the parenting interactions of the main series, but is instead all about the engineering, teamwork and courage of a group of coworkers, struggling to survive and return home after a world wide apocalypse, brought on by an alien system.

Fabulous Lit-RPG at its best.

Hide and Seek

Erin Ampersand

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This story was a great continuation of the prior Apocalypse Parenting, books. I've already read Engineer's Odyssey (Apocalypse Parenting, #3.5), and I can't wait to read book 4 and see what happens after the family is reunited and Vince and Meghan are a power team against the Aliens.