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This book pulls the rug out from under your feet, but not necessarily in the best way

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

April 15, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

HMMM this book, this book. I had SO very many thoughts after reading it, and I definitely should have just pounded this out immediately after reading it because now I am onto book the next and already some of my biting insights have started to flutter away. I would say that for large portions of the the middle of this book, I was pretty certain that I wasn’t going to read on and would instead force one of my friends who had finished the series […]

Excellent recommendation, definitely second!

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

April 12, 2021 by wicherwill 3 Comments

Thank you for the rec, Mobius_Walker! My thought while reading this was omg this would make an AMAZING Pixar movie. And then I was like, too bad we already have Coco. And then I was like HOLD UP, WAIT A SECOND, THAT’S SOME INGRAINED THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE-ISM SPEAKING. I stand by my original thought. This movie would make for an INCREDIBLE animated movie, specifically, because when you’re in the realm of animation you can really imbue a world with realism while not being […]

Super cool, innovative setting with so-so plot

Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden

April 10, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

One thing is for certain–I can’t be faulted for consistency. I had thoughts on this novel, and went to go and see what I thought of the prior novel. Voila, they are almost identical: I think this was four stars for the world building and generalized atmosphere, and knocked down one star for the combination of Very Unsubtle Gender Commentary and lots of screaming/lashing out. In this second installment (concluding installment?), the world continues to be fascinating and novel. The atmosphere continues to be creepy […]

Targeting that local public radio niche audience

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

April 8, 2021 by wicherwill 3 Comments

WHY can’t we get half stars, books like this one are MADE for them. This is a 3.5 star book, or more accurately a 4 star book dropped down to 3.5 because while I will forgive many an implausible plot twist in the service of DRAMA, even I have a limit, and that limit was reached in this book. As I noted to my friend, this book is about 50% a walking talking advertisement for the benefits of having a robust, fulltime HR department. And […]

Disaffected emotionally stunted (Indian-American) manchild??? SIGN ME UP!!1

Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

April 8, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Content warning: suicide Second Disclaimer: I am perhaps unduly harsh on books about the Indian-American experience. They are more likely to exasperate me. Not because I think that every book needs to perfectly express my experience–I loved Never Have I Ever, and my experience could not have been more disparate–but because they seem to barely skim the surface of the wealth of experience that I know the #ownvoices author must have. So they don’t come off as insightful to me, the way that Big Bang Theory‘s […]

The journey is the point, not the destination

Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase

April 7, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

These Chase books are really making me read very quickly, because I have deemed it necessary to read one “normal” book between every one of her delightful tales. That being said, I am sort of at the end of the ones that I’ve stockpiled as being immediately interesting…must regroup. After the wonderful recommendation of Mr. Impossible, my Kindle suggested this novel to me as well. I’ll freely admit to being a bit of a Goodreads snob, and for romance novels I tend to agree with […]

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