Senevilla

I would actually recommend this to some students and families. It's a collection of examples of college students this therapist has seen with some overview about what the takeaways should be. I liked the middle ground of "therapy is good! go to therapy!" and "you probably don't have xyz illness, you probably need to sleep more." Solid advice for college kids.

Thanks to NetGalley for the free copy, all opinions are my own.

This book is a lot of things, but it wasn't good. It felt like a fever dream of parallels and recurring themes that you expect to mean something deep but fall so flat in the end the narrator has to spell it out for you to take anything away. I loved the dioramas, that subplot was so cool. And yet they never really made use of it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the free copy, all opinions are my own.

A little bit of Tainted Cup, a little bit of Babel... if you're looking for more 'dark academia' fantasy books that aren't in a school setting, this is it. The main characters are wonderful and grow so much over the course of the book. The world feels lived in. The writing is easy to follow without feeling boring.

Thank you to NetGalley for the free copy, all opinions are my own.