(very late) Hugo Novel Nominee Ranking | 2023

This is definitely a very slow story very atmospheric all of sylv Mora Garcia's stories are very atmospheric she is obviously an excellent writer but as far as like the plot and my like connection to the story not very high for me it was just like very much fine. I actually would have preferred if there were some more horror elements.

It's very cute it's very wholesome it's very much like found family. For stars because I found it delightful and enjoyed it highly.

This I feel like is like Peak cozy with more substance I loved it yeah it's it's perfect it's everything. The writing is excellent the plotting is excellent the story is excellent the characters are excellent like no notes everything in here is perfect.

This actual installment I felt was a bit of an offshoot of what was actually going on it felt like it wasn't super connected to the main story even though I know that it is there's parts that felt really slow. My overall enjoyment of this in comparison to the other two books in this series was just so much lower so this is just like a solid three for me.

As far as like a Sci-Fi mystery this was incredibly mediocre and I found it to be just like very slow in parts and for a closed Circle mystery not actually like a ton of suspense in my opinion. And then the ending was so dox makina where it just was like a very easy out to explain how everything happened in a way that was very annoying.

Honestly I really enjoyed this but again not as like an award-winning book. It was fine and it was very fun and I do think about it a lot.