34. N.K.Jemisin, The City We Became -- Huh. I was expecting to have a hard time getting through this book, based on everything I knew about the premise and also the reviews I've seen from people for whom it did not work. So I cautiously peeked at it when I needed a new thing to be reading on my phone, when I didn't have my main (hard copy) read ( Read more... )

55. Ursula Vernon, Whiskerella (Hamster Princess 5) -- the last of the Hamster Princess books currently out, so there will be no more sparkly hamsters for me until October (which is fine, as I'm ready to take a break; binging these is probably not what one should do, anyway). This one was also pretty cute, with the Cinderella story subversion ( spoilers! )

48. N.K.Jemisin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) -- So I read Jemisin's debut Hundred Thousand Kingdoms books, the first two, and was underwhelmed. People were praising them to the skies, but to me, the first book was a perfectly ordinary, middle-of-the-road high fantasy story, with the (important, I agree) distinction of a world that did ( Read more... )

33. Neal Shusterman, Bruiser -- this was a weird book. I quite enjoyed it, but it was weird. I wasn't sure if it was going to have a fantasy element or just be a troubled teen sort of YA novel, and ( Spoilers )

27. Tanya Huff, Blood Ties -- this was fun! I've read some of Huff's stuff before -- two of the Quarters books (which I enjoyed, mostly for the world-building), another urban fantasy/mystery thing. I liked this one, too. ( SPOILERS for everything )