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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

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4.0

Bite-size and creepy, this audiobook truly felt like a fever dream. Ambiguous ending.
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

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4.0

Jones always makes his prose feel like you're tapping into the narrator's thoughts rather than reading words on a page. Marvelous.
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

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2.0

 My friend said this book got better for her once she realized it was camp; that moment never happened for me. Holmes tried so hard to be funny but he just isn't, so the book drags. If you read it, remember that it's camp and hopefully have more fun than I did.
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

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3.0

I listened to the audiobook which usually makes a story zip by, but this one dragged for me. I was intrigued in the beginning by the parallel interest in how Fiona's sister died and is it somehow tied to the girls at school there 50 years before?

I did genuinely enjoy both mysteries, and
I love a good ACAB ending
but I was never as invested as I wanted to be.
Point B by Drew Magary

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3.0

If I could have one wish it would be the ability to reload a previous save of my life the way I do in video games -- but teleportation would be a very close second. But this book (as scifi is wont to do) proves why we can't have nice things.

It's a wonderfully unique idea, Bamert is a delight, I love the teen angst and that the MC is a lesbian. But the pacing failed this story. It took me ages to read this because chapter after chapter was high intensity and it was just exhausting. There needed to be some filler chapters: something calm, show me the world just as porting was being introduced, give me a self-indulgent school moment, show me a diving lesson. Some of the scenes ran on too long even for me, and I love self-indulgence (see: Bamert was my favorite character). A better editor could have made this a great book.
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.
This was so boring. I could not even believe how boring it was. The full-cast audio was great, but not enough to save this lame story.
Looker by Laura Sims

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3.0

I love an unreliable narrator. This should have been a little snappier but overall it was entertaining enough on audio.
Changeling by Philippa Gregory

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2.0

An overall disappointment with a few decent scenes. If I didn't own the second book and feel obligated to read it, I wouldn't have finished this.
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

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2.0

All of the characters are extremely irritating, so this one is a little hard to read. The twist at the end
(you find out that Daisy has been a ghost the whole book; she has been dead since she was 13 when Connor hit her with his car and her sisters help him cover it up)
was <i>almost</i> enough to make me want to go back to the beginning, but it just wasn't interesting enough to make it worth the time.
The Amber Room by Steve Berry

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.
I read 88 pages and kept drifting off. The chapters were all like four pages long and I still struggled to finish one. So I skipped to the end to see if there was a good payoff, and just my luck, found the scene where Rachel was about to get assaulted. This one's not for me.