Finished this one and yeah, I loved it! My favorite sort of werewolf narrative (where figuring it out is a big part of it), with a more thoughtful take on fandom than I was expecting, and two leads I loved. The emotional stakes/situation at the end was pretty perfect. Awoooooo

Confirmed!

I am currently listening to this audiobook, because it turns out hoopla has it and I can't just take a day off to read the book like I want, but what that means is I cannot check if, indeed, Devin describes himself as taking a "big, slutty inhale" - dirtbag puppy indeed!

oh my god, this book maybe takes place in Florida

Let me meet these ocean changelings! Let me meet them right now! I hope one of you is some kind of star fish, one of the voracious predators, just to keep that changeling theme going!

When you gotta finish one wolf book to read a completely different wolf book

🚨I think some side characters might be gay in this book! Finally!!!🚨

This thing was never going to be a pick, but that last slog really took it out of me. Get your shit together! And don't even get me started on the fucking MMC POV as epilogue and you switch to 3rd person!!!

The grim, -grim- feeling that a book should be wrapping up, but it still 150+ pages left...

I read a little more and, uh oh, I am in danger of loving Bobby aka Count Zero aka an idiot who just got his brain computer scrambled by maybe touching a vast, alien machine intelligence. Try not to pull your own face off, Bobby!

Reading along with Shelved by Genre, starting the parts of the Sprawl trilogy that I don't think people talk about much! Very interested to more properly meet the possibly titular Count Zero, who has been around for about 3 pages and spent them all stupidly computer-dying

Oh, this YA graphic novel is Charming As Hell! When the children I know get older, they will be getting a copy.

I enjoy this series, really I do, but they are definitely trips into the cishet mines, and now that Sascha is pregnant it's just getting weirder. You know your fetus's gender, psychically??? And don't even ask me about feeling the life-force at a couple weeks post conception...

Gift Card Books (minus 2 February preorders)

Honestly, the horror of some of the final chapter bumps this Gothic up to a light pick. Good for you, book!

I... I don't think this book understands It's A Wonderful Life very well

Truly couldn't hold up under its own back half, though there was still moving stuff it there

My impulse December stack has an unexpected color scheme!

These dudes are cracking me up

Couple of horror publishers are having sales today: Ghoulish Books is doing a 31% off sale of their stuff and everything in their bookstore, and Tenebrous Press has half off ebooks. Treat yourself to some horror!

The year is not correct, but I think this book is besmirching the cinematic classic Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and this I cannot stand for!

Normally I enjoy characters this rock stupid, but these two are a bit much

Sweet natured and cozy and very autumnal, but I am having to force reading it, which is a cue to return it to the library.

I really enjoy the way Lackey writes characters hanging out, which is good, because this book (like the last one) takes nearly half the page count for some plot thing to happen.

A couple more thoughts on this Federation history:
1) fucking Malcolm Reed makes captain? And he expected to roll up and big dog the Organians?!
2) convergent evolution already exists on planet Earth, I don't think it's that radical to think it could exist across planets (the extent it exists with the humanoids does seem unlikely)

In a book full of drawings, this page was a real lol

I realize that, if I'm lucky, I will continue to get older than a lot of the leads in genre fiction, but please: don't get yourself killed by ghosts before you're even 32! It's not worth it!

Grim, gay tragedy

As if this book wasn't already gay, what with the vibes from basically moment one, and the A Separate Peace, and the Greek statuary, now they're watching Rope?!

I cannot believe the Burbank Chuck E. Cheese is in this book #FullMunch

Normally I don't care about business dealings in fiction, but it turns out when the dealings are thinly veiled takes on real life movie studio nonsense, billionaires slitting their own throats and trying to destroy an art form, well, then I care A Lot

The podcast Shelved By Genre has picked their next unit, which means I'll be reading Mercedes Lackey for the first time! I think there are psychic horses on these?

The thing about this book is, since both leads are changelings, there are a lot of serious and also fully nude conversations in the woods. Fun!

Also truly psyched to spend even a scene with Amara, the bad vibes woman. I am rooting very hard for her!

If one of these books is focused on these reporters, maybe in some kind of more-violent-less-fun His Girl Friday situation, I'm going to throw a parade

Listen, if you want some polyamorous epic fantasy with a fun pantheon with cool powers, well, I don't know if you -have- many other options, but this is a great one!

God, it rules when a starchy hero gets entirely unmade by his own emotions

Me, reading: wait, a capital A looks like a mountain, this is a book about a mountain called Ascension and also the narrator is definitely autistic, do the As mean anything?????

Hate it when that happens

A different book would get into how living in a super haunted town might lead to an exhibitionist kink, but I don't think this one will. Shame.

Also, I would NEVER stop texting the group chat about my haunted house, no matter how little they cared

"Living in a tourist town would be heaven on earth if it weren't for all the damn tourists."

I'm watching you, Florida-set book, but this is a fairly promising early sign

It was charming! Don't know if it's uncommonly so, but there you go.

Following my instinct to bail on a book when the idea of reading it makes me go "ugh"; this is my third try with this author, and my third bail. I just don't think we get on!