Ali

“Enshittification” spells out well how the corporations who dominate our lives have no incentive to change their aggressively terrible ways as they’ve monopolized their competitors and have only their self interests in mind.

That said, I don’t understand the main target of this book - is it techies, economists, the chronically online, everyday consumers?

I agree with many reviewers that it really could’ve been edited down lengthwise as Doctorow’s argument loses some punch when you’re reading it reworded and repackaged in chapter after chapter. I ended up skimming the last third of the book just to get through it.

I personally was hoping for a broader cultural look as enshittification has infested so much of modern life but then again, these corporations drive our current culture.

The cures proposed were a bit too optimistic given the current state of affairs. While it touches on the beginning of the current administration, it underestimates the amount of dismantling that was to come.

Thanks to Farrar, Straus and Giroux and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review.

I love this little recovering assassin family.

I read almost all of this in a single day because I needed to know how the events in the first chapter came to be. I needed to know how the family would be tested time and again supporting the ones they’ve grown to love in their imperfect ways. And by god, they were tested. Partially as the result of their own actions, but that just kept me turning pages.

You don’t get the ending you might want but it makes sense after everything has unfolded.

Lulu deserves her own book cause she’s clearly got one hell of a backstory. Lucia and Kittie Smalls? You’re both perfect just as you are.

(Also I need to know what this dumpling place was based on!)

I hope we get another adventure some time soon.

Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam for the opportunity to read and review.

I don’t know why anthropomorphizing animal serial killers makes it more compelling but it just works.

We’re again drawn into the sleepy town of Woodbrook although there remains an underlying unease after the events of the first series. The pages fly by as you know the town won’t stay quiet for long and the ensuing escalation is epic.

Much like the previous volume of “Between the Trees”, I’m left wanting a bit more. More about what motivated Samantha’s first (and shocking) murders. More about what happens next cause my goodness someone needs their comeuppance.

Thank you to NetGalley and IDW Publishing for the opportunity to read and review.

As a long time Orphan X fanatic, I’m ashamed to say that I hadn’t read any of Gregg Hurwitz’s other work until now. I’m glad I finally corrected that mistake.

If you’ve been on the fence about AI and what it could be used for, you won’t be after reading this. What was hoped to be a tool for productivity and efficiency becomes an instrument that acts upon your darkest thoughts.

I wish it had been fleshed out into a full novel with a little more conclusion for some of the characters. That said, it’s a fast paced and thought-provoking read.

In this day and age, you’re never truly alone and unheard.

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the opportunity to read and review.

The best compliment I can pay to this series is that I would absolutely pay to see it turned into a movie because it would be an incredibly good time (and I NEVER go to the movies).

A crazy ride that could only take place in Florida, it’s a madcap sendup of The War on Drugs, cocaine magnates and more than a few inferences to a current public figure. The title spells it all out for you and delivers on its promise.

Thank you to NetGalley and Mad Cave Studios for the opportunity to read and review.