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Dr Ms Kat

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Naomi Kritzer: Liberty's Daughter (Paperback, Fairwood Press LLC)

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise …

I nearly noped out of this one when I thought it was a story about how good US libertarianism is, but it turned out to be the reverse so I'm glad I stuck eith it.

started reading Sleeper Agent: Revenge by John Birmingham (Sleeper Agent, #2)

Not even sure if this is released yet, but I have a copy as one of JB's patrons. There was a character named after me in the first book of this series but I don't think she'll make a reapparance.

finished reading The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Older: The Mimicking of Known Successes (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom)

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …

I know a lot of people really liked this but I found it kind of meh. Fundamentally it's a whodunnit but set on another planet (or moon, I guess), and it has queer characters. But one of them is manipulative and coercive and it did not read as a healthy dynamic to me.

Vajra Chandrasekera: The Saint of Bright Doors (Hardcover, 2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …

This wasn't a bad book but I really struggled to care about any of the characters. Felt like I was just trudging through the last third to get to the end.