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QuinoaQueen

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Actively moving from Goodreads, hopefully more people start using this site. :) My star ratings are: 1 - did not like, 2 - it was ok, 3 - liked it, 4 - really liked it, 5 - loved it A three star book is still a good book!

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League of Gentlewomen Witches (2022, Penguin Books, Limited) 3 stars

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the teahouse...

Miss Charlotte …

Hit and Miss :(

3 stars

I preferred the first one.

Everything I liked about the Wisteria Society transferred into this one, however, with a slightly less enjoyable heroine. Charlotte is lovely, sure, but I found her wit to be more annoying than Cecilia's. Everything about Charlotte and Alex's relationship seemed to center around sex and fulfilling physical needs rather than emotional ones. (Not that that isn't a little bit relatable too, ha). Yes, I know they stopped having sex once to talk about emotional things, but that felt like too little too late for me. I did like Charlotte's budding friendship with Cecilia. Where the writing involving men sometimes falls short, the writing in regards to female friendships hasn't failed yet.

3/5 While it's not as good as the previous book, this was still an enjoyable read. If not for the romance, then for the world building and newly introduced society, the mystery posed by …

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Paperback, 2021, Berkley) 4 stars

Y'all, This One Got Me Into the Romance Genre...

4 stars

An entertaining twist of the realm of piracy; lady pirates who are powerful and feared, pirates and women who look out for each other, magical pirates?? Ugh, it's met all of my standards.

Cecilia, our main character, is witty and thoughtful and navigates her relationship with Ned and her overprotective aunt in a way I think is familiar for many people with overbearing authority figures. She doesn't throw away aspects of herself or her dreams for love, and each of the Wisteria ladies were wonderful side characters that added a new twist of personality to the already one-of-a-kind cast.

3.5/5 rounded up because I really did enjoy this book. Not quite a five star for me, but lovers of the romance genre, magic, women who know what they want, and a dash of quirky events will likely enjoy it even more than I did.

Rogue Protocol (EBook, 2018, Tordotcom) 4 stars

Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …

About The Same As Book 2

3 stars

While the previous book in The Murderbot Diaries focused a lot on dialogue, here there is a good mix of action and emotion, with another new bot/human relationship dynamic that added more to the world building.

The Murderbot story is interesting, the plot with GrayCris seems like it's going somewhere, but these past two books feel like a setup for the fourth book in a way that left both feeling incomplete. Murderbot still hasn't grown to like humans or see anything in a different light, but readers did get more insight of it's relationship with humans from it's reactions to Miki's relationship with it's leader.

Repetitive plots aside, I'm hoping that the fourth book will bring out new aspects of Murderbot as a character, shed some light on it's past, and take those final steps into the emotional impact of Murderbot's story.

3/5 for the humor, the fun action, the …

Artificial Condition (EBook, 2018, Tordotcom) 4 stars

It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past …

More Murderbot?? Sign me up.

3 stars

Another quick read in which we learn about Murderbot's backstory, get to see it defend new friends (and also call them idiots), and just be a general badass. ART is also lovely, it's quippy dialogue and reaction to Murderbot's downloaded media really solidified how much I like the character.

The plot in this book was a bit less strong than the last one, there's more talking and the action is towards the end. However, with the introduction of such interesting new characters and the evolution of the mystery of Ganaka Pit it's definitely worth the read.

3/5, I suggest this for readers who enjoy casual lgbtq rep, lots of sarcasm, and another book in what has quickly become my bite-size guilty pleasure sci-fi series.

To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Paperback, 2023, Del Rey) 3 stars

The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs …

A Wonderful Read :)

3 stars

This is a good book! Going into it blind meant I wasn't expecting the discussions of racism towards indigenous peoples, but the narrative was eye-opening and thoroughly showed many aspects of the impacts of colonialism.

I liked the writing, the characters, and all of the fantasy elements introduced to the world. The LGBTQ+ and polyamory representation was also unexpected but brought me a lot of comfort and joy. Anequs is strong and confident and I love her and Kasaqua to pieces. :)

Uprooted (EBook, 2015, Del Ray) 4 stars

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …

'Uprooted' by Naomi Novik

4 stars

This book is very, very close to perfect. Novik's prose is stunning. Reading Uprooted felt like watching the Howl's Moving Castle movie again. In fact, this book felt very similar to Howl's Moving Castle, with a bit more of the plot happening outside of the tower.

The characters in this book were stunning. I thought Sarkan was goofy in the best way possible (he's the most serious character ever, lol), and adored Kasia. Even the villain was written so beautifully I felt her connections to the valley in the way I feel connected to my own home. There are so many themes of love and connection in this book that reading it filled me with so much joy. It was genuinely difficult to put down, that hasn't happened to me in ages.

I've read some other reviews for this book (the one-stars seem popular) and I definitely see where they're …