Reviewing the 17 books I read in May and June 📚 Reading Wrap Up

I liked it. I had a good time with it. I wouldn't say that it really made a huge impression on me necessarily, but I had a good time while I was reading it.

I just hated how stagnant the characters were. I really liked them at the start, but they just went nowhere. Zero growth.

I'm going to just say this was a disappointment for me. I had such high hopes for this book.

There was a bit of a tonal mismatch again, just for me personally as a reader. And like I said, I think I'm starting to land on the reality probably that Chuck Tingle's books just aren't for me, which disappoints me because like I said, there are elements of his stories I really like.

I thought the setup was interesting. I liked the creepy, unsettling quality here. I liked the weird family dynamics.

This was by far my least favorite book that I read in these two months. Such a disappointment.

I feel like especially book three is very repetitive to me. I also feel like by book three, Emily had lost a lot of what made her such a compelling character in the first book.

There were elements to the story I liked, but I don't really know why it had to exist, and it felt superfluous to the story to me. And I felt less connected to Emily, less connected to Wendell, less connected to this world in general than I did in the first book.

So, I relisted to both of them and it was great. gave them both five stars again. Highly recommend.

Harrow the Ninth probably squeaks out to be my favorite. past Gideon just the tiniest bit, but it's really a close race.

I kept being surprised by the narrative, but I also was so drawn in by the themes and by what it was exploring that I just had such a fantastic time with it. And I ended up giving it five stars as well.

It just sort of left me pretty cold. I didn't feel that it did as good of a job as the first two books at getting you attached to the characters.

Without spoiling it, I found the ending very antilimactic. And that was in part because I felt that Agatha Christie made it impossible for a reader to actually put the pieces together and solve the mystery.

I loved this book. It's become one of my favorites of literary horror.

It took me a while to get into this one and to get into the swing of this different tone, but once I was in it, I was really in it. And it ended up being very moving emotionally.

I gave both Shadow of the Wind and Angel's Game five stars.

Definitely just an easy read contemporary thriller, fast-paced, engaging to try to follow and try to put the pieces together, complicated, interesting characters and dynamics between the characters, some touching moments on grief and sisterhood. I really liked this and I gave it four stars and would definitely recommend.

Not my favorite Agatha Christie ever. That title still goes to the murder of Roger Akroyd, but I liked this a lot.

I still liked this one, but it just wasn't quite as perfect for me. I think not only is it shorter than the other two, but it feels a lot shorter. It feels more like an interlude.

I gave both Shadow of the Wind and Angel's Game five stars.

And the first book in the series is still by far my favorite. And I'm a little worried about continuing because nothing has lived up to the first novela to me so far.

I loved it. I thought it was really fantastic. I had a couple little quibbles here and there, but very minor.