Thoughts on Tomes 63.4K subscribers · Sep 29, 2026

recent reads while fighting a summer reading slump

Reviews10

So this is like little bite-sized chunks of some of her like thoughts on things which I thought was cool because I actually haven't read any other like major works by her. I think this is very good and if you're interested in her kind of like emerging strategy series I recommend giving it a go.

I really liked the world building in this. But I would say that our characters in the plot are a little flimsy here. So yeah, I end up giving this like three stars. It might be more like a 2.5.

this ended up being fine. I liked parts of it. All that starts to fall apart is the actual world building of this story that I'm not going to get into cuz it would be spoilers, but like some of the worldbuing elements of this and some of the plot points of it don't quite make sense.

But as a whole, I did enjoy this as a thing that is again so foundational, as a world that is so cool, as a world that I've been so familiar with for so many years in the movies. So, it was really cool to kind of compare this to the movies. But this is like a four star.

WitchlightSusan Dennard
Mixed

this was a satisfying conclusion in some parts. this finale still stuck the landing in many ways and didn't in others because this is kind of an open-ended finale. I would say this is a four out of five stars.

WitchshadowSusan Dennard
Loved it

As I started reading it, I was like, "This is still good." This again isn't quite as good as Blood Witch was, in my opinion, but this is still very good and still in line with the rest of the series.