I Got CARRIED AWAY This Month! 📚 | August 2026 Reading Wrap-Up

But Barrayar is like a four star for me. Still really good, but it's just too much of a good thing type of deal.

Caught me completely off guard because this book is dark. This book is messed up. This book is incredibly weird. It's incredibly Dark Tower.

So, I'm going to as of 70% right now, it's at like three and a half It's my least favorite He Who Fights with Monsters book so far. Although, it's got arguably some of the best stuff.

And I really liked Malice.

Mark of the Fool 7 was so incredibly good. I loved this thing. Just keeps getting better and better and very excited to finally be wrapping up this series that I started all the way back in like 2022 or 2023.

This was another Detective Kaga book. And I really liked Malice. And I really like this one. It follows just such a different structure of a mystery novel.

There's just good action, great analyzation of like trauma and stuff like that. And the way that the protagonist past is revealed to you is so incredibly good. I found this such a rewarding read.

And I really enjoyed Shards of Honor. 4.5 to 5 stars. Lot of great content in there. a lot of sensitive content handled very well.

And it was good. And it was well done. And it's just not my favorite trope. But I'm still going to give it like a four, four and a half.

This particular book however, I didn't particularly love this book, but I read it and I got I'll give it like a three-star. Bobby Dollar just isn't my favorite of Tad's works.

Anyway, very good book. Solid sci-fi. And this is what let me know that I was like, "Oh, this is military sci-fi. This is modern military sci-fi. I had a great time with that. Maybe I should check some out more some more sci-fi."

Anyway, it's working and so far so good. I'm I'm really enjoying it but I'm very early on.

I liked a lot of the ideas. I liked a lot of the cases that he finds himself in, but I just don't think it's going to be something that I'm going to be continuing here on the channel just because I don't see myself really reaching for it now that I've tried the first one.