Month: November 2020

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

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Started: 11/14/20
Finished: 11/17/20

This is the first book in the Great Library series, and it came highly recommended.  I’ve been burned (heh) by that before, so I didn’t have particularly high hopes, especially when I realized that our main characters were all teenagers (sigh), but what a wonderful surprise this one turned out to be!  It starts out with one premise, immediately makes you rethink it, and then gradually gives you a whole different perspective, and I loved it.

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories by Karen Russell

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Started: 11/14/20
Gave up: 11/14/20

I read the first short story in this collection and started the second, and no, thank you.  These are not for me.  A little too graphic, a little to uncomfortable, a little too “I’m not sure what happened here”, and I decided to move on.

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

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Started: 11/1/20
Finished: 11/13/20

This book marks the first time I’ve been disappointed by an Ann Leckie book.  The style is different, but interesting-different, not off-putting, so that was fine, but I finished this book over a month ago and I cannot remember the ending.  I remember the reveal, but I don’t know what happens to the characters.  So…I suppose that’s saying something about how I feel about this book.