Reviews and Comments

I haven't read this since it was first published but my high school senior is reading it, so I wanted to reread it with him. And I think my heart might break.

What can I say, I love this whole series

I do not read horror often but heard great things and those great things were all true. This is the least informative review, sorry, but I am still thinking it all through. (It's grisly! But also it's a book and I think it's all part of the point of the story it's telling)

I think I remember liking The Ruin a lot better than this one. This was fine, but it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be.

I mean you didn’t think I’d stop reading just because the soap opera is out of hand, did you? I still love Ruth and she’s still got murders to solve.

I didn’t know much about this going into it and was under a vague impression it was going to be fluffier or something. But it was heartbreaking at times and uncomfortable and I’m glad I read it. That dude though.

I didn't expect to like this as much as I did (tbh I only did because I vaguely know the author and evangelical Texas is not usually a draw). But it's beautiful and I devoured it. If I'd remembered to write this closer to when I actually finished it, I could probably tell you more details about how it was beautiful/complex/etc but all I recall now is wanting to dive into the book until I got done and waves of emotions.

I think I reviewed the previous in the series by complaining how soap opera Ruth’s personal life has gotten and it’s no less true here but I still love her and the series and thank heavens for Cathbad

I hated that book about Belle da Costa Greene so much I am slathering myself with comfort reads to get over it

It’s just a fluffy fun feminist romance with two very strong people who refuse to bend. I mean, it’s Milan and she’s great.

I hated this book. It’s a poorly written fictionalization of one of the most remarkable librarians, the woman who built the Morgan Library collections. All the book is interested in romanticizing her relationships with her father and JP Morgan and Berenson and justifying her mother’s decision to have the family pass as white. Meanwhile, Greene was mostly a self-taught expert in early printed books and manuscripts and art and there’s no focus on that. Her surviving letters make her sound witty and clever and these authors have just made her dull and flat. It’s an insult to Belle da Costa Greene. But one star for effort I guess

I am truly deeply disliking this book and our bookclub convo better make up for it

I really liked this series initially--a town hidden in the wilderness of Yukon, a new detective solving mysteries and learning to live in the woods. The characters were interesting and not obvious. And then. It's less of a series and more of a string of 6 books so far that follow a longggggg arc of who is responsible for the bogeymen in the woods and how evil actually is the corporation running the town. I might not be able to stop myself from reading until the series concludes, but I also might just try to dig up plot summaries as they come out.

I found this much more emotional of a read than I expected. The questions about what makes a person a person, and a home a home, and a family a family, not to mention what is the relationship between ourselves and our physical bodies— it’s a lot to handle! And the book does is so gently even as it’s really fierce on valuing lives and loves. Anyway. She’s so good, Becky Chambers.

I am never going to finish reading all the things before I start teaching about feminist bibliography next week ughhhhhh