Okay, nice job, March Chrissie; April Chrissie has high hopes. I seem to be doing a better job of DNFing. I ended up with FOUR 4.5 star books and TWO 5-star books. That’s a win, folks.
FINISHED READING
📱 A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young (★4.5)
I’m loving Young’s moody standalone books.
🎧 Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan (★4.5)
I’m officially a short story person now.
📱 Right Back at You by Carolyn Mackler (★4)
Very cute time-play middle grade novel.
🎧 The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (★4.5)
Loved this series opener.
🎧 The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence (★5)
I adored this book and all its trappings.
🎧 You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue (★4.5)
Enrigue created such a unique hist-fic book!
📱 Saltwater by Katy Hays (★3)
Present tense gimmicks held this one way back for me.
🎧 The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon (★5)
What a wonder when the second in a fantasy series is better than the first.
🎧 Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray (★4)
I’m so glad I revisited the first and second books to finish out this series.
📱 Heartwood by Amity Gaige (★2)
Um, this is EXACTLY what I find troublesome with present tense and abandoning the pretense of epistolary narratives.
DNFs
🎧 The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn
Present tense epidemic continues — this one felt too juvenile to boot.
🎧 Where Are You, Echo Blue? by Hayley Krischer
The main character didn’t feel real — or like the adult she was supposed to be. And I never bought into the obsession, so-called.
📱 Still Life at Eighty by Abigail Thomas
I am not familiar with this author, and these blips playing with being essays or thoughts just didn’t land with me.
CARRYING OVER TO NEXT MONTH
🎧 Maya & Natasha by Elyse Durham
📱 The Wandering Season by Aimie K. Runyan
🎧 The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
📖 Watchmen by Alan Moore
Happy reading!
—C.