Katie

Not my favorite. I feel like when Sanderson spits out a Cosmere novel, he relies too much on this universe he has created instead of building compelling characters and storylines. The Stormlight archive used to be cool and novel and actually mean something, but now it just feels like a reiteration of the same things that were established in the first book. There seems to be room for so much more that Sanderson isn't utilizing. Which makes sense, he's found his target audience and he's going to stick with it.

I really liked this book in theory, but I guess at this point Tremblay books are just a hit or a miss for me. Like, it was good for sure, but not the good I was hoping for (if that makes sense)?

The ending was horrifically sad, though. I will give it that.

Wasn’t so sure about this one at first, but then the stories started to play with formatting and language and all that stuff and I was hooked.

THEN I had a CBD soda over the weekend and decided that the best, most smartest thing to do would be to keep reading this book, and I got to the House of Leaves-like story about the barn and it scared the absolute shit out of me. Got jumpscared by a footnote. Ran up the stairs because I was afraid of the dark. Luckily I’m pretty sure my cats fight ghosts.

4.75
-.25 because I'm too stupid to understand the trains fully

she never finds out