THAT IS THE HIGHEST SCORE SO FAR!!! By quite a bit. So even with the DNFs we have plenty of overlap! I WAS BRACED FOR A NUMBER IN THE MINUSES 😂 And am delighted to have been so wrong!

207. The Poet Empress by Shen Tao. Fantasy, arc. On one hand, I read this in a single six-hour sitting; on the other hand, it should not have been that breezy a read with the concepts and themes it was trying to engage with. Very simple prose with almost no description. Definitely not what I hoped!

I think that captures the spirit of, we were both drawn to the same book, so what appeals to both of us overlaps! But we had very different opinions on the execution of what appealed to us XD

No no, those are good questions! HMM. I think it would be really funny to use negative points for something I liked and you DNFed… Maybe something like, +5 because we both picked it up/put it on the tbr, but -3 because you DNFed it?

You clearly have MUCH more self-control than I do, I pruned my tbr pretty ruthlessly last year and it's still over 1000 books long XD

That is the highest score so far! WOO! And I hope you find some new faves among the ones you hadn't heard of before :D

Still so grateful that you wrote Lessons and shared it with the rest of us :D

206. Landlocked in Foreign Skin by Drew Huff. Scifi/horror novella. MOST EXCELLENT. Fascinating non-humans, toxic sapphics, selkie vibes but the selkies will straight-up EAT YOU. No one is good, everyone is interesting, lots and lots of murder. Check the trigger warnings!

205. The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman. Fantasy. Loved this just as much as I expected to! Lycanthropy as metaphor for chronic pain/disability was so powerful and meant a lot to me; the sheer writing CRAFT on display here is so freaking impressive. (2nd person! 3rd person! Verse!) Instant fave!

Yes I know these!

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