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133 reviews

Lovely Tangled Vices by Olivie Blake

4.0

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

4.5

Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin

3.5

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

4.5

The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin
Did not finish book. Stopped at 49%.

50% of the way in and the pacing is just too slow for me.  Also just found out it's a series and not a standalone, which is not what in looking for right now.

The Martian by Andy Weir

4.5

Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

5.0

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang

2.5

Oof.

I think if you remove the repetitive dialogue/exposition this book could be about 100 pages shorter. 

The characters are very shallow and honestly I didn't care for any of them.  Almost all of the relationship building between Ruying and Antony happens during a 6 month off-page time skip. Their entire relationship feels incredibly flimsy and surface level, and I have no idea why she suddenly trusts him and is also smitten by him. I think that

Taohua's death

was supposed to be this big moment, but because there's almost no interaction I found that I didn't care at all.

Interesting ideas but incredibly poor execution.

Murder Road by Simone St. James

4.0

Darker by Four by June CL Tan

3.75

The first 50% or so of this book is just Bleach, honestly. The pacing is a little off and it's not until literally halfway through the book that 2 of the POVs actually meet.