I finished Adnan's Story by Rabia Chaudry. I resisted buying this because I am so deeply caught up with the podcasting about this case of Adnan Syed, a young man almost certainly wrongfully accused of murder, who has been in prison for more than 15 years. The podcasting story about him started with Sarah Koenig's Serial, the most popular podcast in ( Read more... )

I have so many mixed reactions to Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer! I can't think of the last time I read a book with worldbuilding so good, so rich, so complex, and so engrossing. I did think the worldbuilding got a little out of hand in the last third-to-quarter of the book, but before then she completely had me. The worldbuilding alone is ( Read more... )