Witches Failing At Witchery: VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Witches hunting down magical spoons in order to hex the patriarchy…did not live up to its promises.
Tag: three star reviews
October DNFs
Four books that crashed and burned for me this month – all of them ARCs.
Sunday Soupçons #13
A troupe of actors out to triumph, a historical fantasy of dark family secrets, and a far-future queer noir!
…It’s Complicated: The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
In which I have extremely mixed feelings.
An Enjoyable Letdown: The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
An extremely readable dark-academia-fantasy that ultimately disappoints.
Too Many Side-Quests, Not Enough Epic: The Splinter King by Mike Brooks
A very readable but ultimately disappointing sequel.
Fine, Fine, Awful: Three Mini-Reviews
Two books that are perfectly okay, and one that is actively terrible. Feel free to skip and avoid the negativity!
It’s Not You, It’s Me (Probably); The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick
Alas, I just didn’t care.
Fire and Flowers: The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson
A weaker story doesn’t live up to the incredible worldbuilding, but still a fun read!
Find Your Voice: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
This was my read for the Justice square of the TarotBLM Reading Bingo! I turned the final page of this book and was left with the feeling that I needed to reread it immediately. Because I think the reason this didn’t wow me might well have been that I just wasn’t in the right headspace […]