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#37. Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean. 4. Hunger Games with Japanese mythology.
#38. Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution ed. by Ann VanderMeer. 3. Some good ones, but kind losing steam, pun intended.
#39. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark. 4. Exhaustively thorough, fascinating in places but sometimes a bit much for me.
#40. We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory. 4. Well, that was the creepiest group therapy of all time. Good job!
#41. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev. 4. Indian American surgeon as Elizabeth, Black chef as Darcy, only she's the arrogant one. Fun variation, although I was disappointed not to have more of a reckoning with her asshole father.
#42. Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan MacGuire. 3.5. Fun, but not as inventive as and doesn't stand without its predecessors in the series.
#43. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 2.5. Gorgeous prose, offset by the utterly blase shrugging off of rape, especially groomed child rape leading to offhand suicide. Blah blah of its time, not really sure that should matter.
#44. The Last Emperox by John Scalzi. 4. Satisfying trilogy conclusion that manages to be hopeful and a bit heartbreaking at once.
#45. Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger. 4. Silly-sweet Cold Comfort Farm pastiche, with vampires.
#46. How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger. 4. And "worst parents ever in a romance novel goes to". Maybe not, but they're pretty bad. Reread.
#47. Poison or Protect. by Gail Carriger. 4. Shockingly few stabbings for Preshea. Reread.
#48. Romancing the Werewolf by Gail Carriger. 3. Charming but plot is rather thin. Reread.
#49. The Omega Objection by Gail Carriger. 4. Hot werewolves, less stupid Omegaverse. Reread.
#50. Sourdough by Robin Sloan. 4. Magical realism involving sourdough starter - an inadvertent classic for our time. From the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, similar charm, blink-and-you'll-miss-it callback.
#51. Star Wars: Canto Bight by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller. 4. Disney can afford some of the better SF writers, and they deliver. Four tales of Star Wars adjacent casino mayhem.
#52. Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley. 3. Each story would do well on its own, but together they're kinda too similar. Overwhelmingly bleak.
#53. The Sumage Solution by Gail Carriger. 5. Snarky werewolf smut. Reread.
#52. Stone Mad by Elizabeth Bear. 4. Another Karen Memory adventure, this one involving basically a kobold. Great voice.
#38. Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution ed. by Ann VanderMeer. 3. Some good ones, but kind losing steam, pun intended.
#39. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark. 4. Exhaustively thorough, fascinating in places but sometimes a bit much for me.
#40. We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory. 4. Well, that was the creepiest group therapy of all time. Good job!
#41. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev. 4. Indian American surgeon as Elizabeth, Black chef as Darcy, only she's the arrogant one. Fun variation, although I was disappointed not to have more of a reckoning with her asshole father.
#42. Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan MacGuire. 3.5. Fun, but not as inventive as and doesn't stand without its predecessors in the series.
#43. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 2.5. Gorgeous prose, offset by the utterly blase shrugging off of rape, especially groomed child rape leading to offhand suicide. Blah blah of its time, not really sure that should matter.
#44. The Last Emperox by John Scalzi. 4. Satisfying trilogy conclusion that manages to be hopeful and a bit heartbreaking at once.
#45. Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger. 4. Silly-sweet Cold Comfort Farm pastiche, with vampires.
#46. How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger. 4. And "worst parents ever in a romance novel goes to". Maybe not, but they're pretty bad. Reread.
#47. Poison or Protect. by Gail Carriger. 4. Shockingly few stabbings for Preshea. Reread.
#48. Romancing the Werewolf by Gail Carriger. 3. Charming but plot is rather thin. Reread.
#49. The Omega Objection by Gail Carriger. 4. Hot werewolves, less stupid Omegaverse. Reread.
#50. Sourdough by Robin Sloan. 4. Magical realism involving sourdough starter - an inadvertent classic for our time. From the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, similar charm, blink-and-you'll-miss-it callback.
#51. Star Wars: Canto Bight by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, Mira Grant, and John Jackson Miller. 4. Disney can afford some of the better SF writers, and they deliver. Four tales of Star Wars adjacent casino mayhem.
#52. Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley. 3. Each story would do well on its own, but together they're kinda too similar. Overwhelmingly bleak.
#53. The Sumage Solution by Gail Carriger. 5. Snarky werewolf smut. Reread.
#52. Stone Mad by Elizabeth Bear. 4. Another Karen Memory adventure, this one involving basically a kobold. Great voice.
