Catriona

Definitely better than Sheets, look forward to wrapping it all up with Lights

Some fun information but structure was absolutely all over the place 

I would have loved a book that was just Kadiatou's story. Unfortunately the other sections were far too lacking in plot for my tastes. I also found the American liberals to be straw-man caricatures and not believable at all, which is a shame because I normally love the complexity of Adichie's characters. 

My favourite of the series so far 

The Greatest Showman of books

Even a mediocre Heyer is an excellent book

Story a bit thin - moustache twirling villain and all. Always love Thummlers art though so I'll finish the trilogy 

I love learning more about the Presger Translators and spending time in that world. I also enjoying Qven and Reet's relationship, it was sweet. 
However I definitely felt this book was less atmospheric and engaging than the first trilogy. 
Enae could have been excluded as a POV completely and nothing would have been lost. Identity politics, gender, pronouns etc isn't particularly of interest to me and so the focus on that wasn't very engaging for me. 

Sadly the scope of this book felt so small when compared with The Silence of the Girls
DNF at 65%

I found the first chapter of this book giving the background of Mexico intimidatingly dense and difficult to parse through. 
Luckily I didn't let that put me off as from then on I thoroughly enjoyed this book. 

Emily Henry can do no wrong

dnf at about 85%
I enjoyed the first half of this book but eventually found it grating how every revelation and exploration of a topic was given through seemingly imaginary conversations with her various friends and acquaintances. I would avoid the audiobook.

I read this surprisingly quickly for the length and at times it was very compelling and readable, at others it dragged slightly.
I did love seeing all the stories eventually intertwine with ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land' the novel and I felt most were satisfactorily rounded up, except for Konstance's which I felt was very lacking at the end. How did she manage to adapt to life on the outside? Is it really likely that she was just able to escape, was noone monitoring the experiment? I feel we were robbed a bit there

Natalie Haynes is such a gift. I loved all the explorations of the different ways these women have been portrayed through the ages and what it can tell us about how we view women today.

Really captured the feeling of that period of COVID lockdowns in the UK. 
There was no fat on this book, I loved it all

Some passages of this will really stay with me, I found the exploration of ethics and effectiveness within non-profits very interesting. 
However it took me a very long time to get into this book, there were a lot of very long passages describing a certain character's history, personality, motivations etc where the narrative completely ground to a halt.
I stuck with it because I've been a fan of Eleanor Catton's previous work and I was intrigued by the snippets of plot we were getting, particularly the goings on at Thorndike with Lemoine.
Unfortunately I didn't feel very rewarded for my perseverance. The plot climaxes are huge but they happen completely off-page, we are only shown them through the eyes of characters coming across the aftermath and I felt robbed of all the tension.

I raced through this which really surprised me given the length.
I particularly love the setting, I was completely transported to Brookhaunts! I also really enjoyed the exploration of all the relationship dynamics throughout

Only my second ‘non-cosmere' Sanderson and I found it a lot of fun

Loved every minute of this. Such an interesting story, a microcosm of Soviet censorship and artistic oppression. The author showed Pasternak warts and all

dnf at 65% . Found myself just dreading picking this up, everything feels so pointless and circular. I might just read a plot summary and pick back up at Knife of Dreams

dnf at 42%

My favourite of Sanderson's short works that I've read so far, a lot of interesting concepts and a really fun way to introduce a new magic system.

I was absolutely loving this book right til the very last chapter. The tension was building, I was so engrossed in these characters and what's as going to happen. And then the last chapter was a total cop out. No idea how to rate it really.

Cute

Very very silly, so much fun. A few moments where I laughed out loud.