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Dr Ms Kat

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13% complete! Dr Ms Kat has read 7 of 52 books.

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.

John Scalzi: Starter Villain (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.

Sure, …

Ok this was great. Read the whole thing over the course of 24 hours. Don't want to spoil anything but 5 stars, read it.

John Scalzi: Starter Villain (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.

Sure, …

5 chapters in and I'm already finding this delightful and a breath of fresh air after trudging through my last book.