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Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

emotional funny sad fast-paced

3.0

i love love love the worldbuilding and the magic system and i found jane and the rest of her coterie—VH aside—completely tiresome. boo.

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

5.0

you know when you read something that affects you so intensely—that changes you at your core with an awful seriousness—the older i get the more i understand

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

4.0

very very sweet—i do enjoy a fluffy historical queer romance, what a nice time—the way these stories normalize the existence of everyday queerness throughout history is just so lovely and meaningful, and the romance in and of itself is just very very nice

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

adventurous emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

so much the vibe of when women were dragons—i love i love i love—found the depictions of anxiety v stressful and the misogyny horrendous but these things were accurate to experience !!! and thus i am wrathful and also just want to give many hugs—definitely a scene inspired by mona lisa smile in there w betty and i adored it—so keen to continue the series !!! what a joy what a delight

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

mysterious medium-paced

2.5

i fear that 2.5 is actually quite generous but there are three aspects that contributed: (1) the prose is so, so clunky and the dialogue is inconsistent (some v unnatural turns of phrase), (2) plot is v superficial and all over the place—in trying to be clever is just becomes confusing, (3) truly feel like the smuttiness of it is just not for me as an audience—there’s v little emotional core to the sex, and that can be fine but then it just doesn’t land w any sort of real impact—maybe that’s just my own preference for smut tho

The Girl in The Tower by Katherine Arden

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

5.0

i literally felt like i was going to throw up before the race like i was going to be too nervous to fall asleep so i had to just readreadreadeeadread will i be purchasing this series u betcha also deep down i will always be a horse girl i fear

A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

4.25

not obsessed w it but the prose is nice and the plot is sweet—funnily enough, elsy is the one bit i found pretty mid

Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death by Maria Vale

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

sweet and kind and interesting but simultaneously the sweat and salt and solidity that makes humanity

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

5.0

deathless & spinning silver collided in this one—such a delight—perfect for a coldly sunny january—i ache to be as true as vasya

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

just my favorite kind of novel—there isn’t a thing Parry has written that hadn’t made me think and ponder and love fiercely—i adored this