Yes, I liked her!

In other news, I have pre-ordered the new Kate Elliott, the sequel to The Witch Roads. Happily, Bookshop.org has it DRM-free, so I can load it on my kindle.

I bought The Witch Roads but haven’t read it yet, another victim of my need to read library books before they are due back pushing the books I own further down the TBR queue.

I love it when my kindle tells me there’s a new book out by an author I’ve read and it’s already in another reading app because past me pre-ordered. Sadly, a different book is due back to the library in 3 days and I haven’t started it.

Ooh what did you preorder? I never preorder but I also probably miss books I would otherwise be into (though thankfully catch some of them through heads up here!)

I’m trying to decide if I want to buy the latest from an author I used to like but haven’t much liked her recent books. I feel like she’s leaned too hard into the neurodivergent cozy theme and made everyone just sit and talk about possible feelings and actions and what would happen if they vaguely thought about going on a date rather than…going on a date? In her last few books. I like the world she’s built, and the premise of the new book is good, but…

Cat Sebastian After_Hours_at_Dooryard_Books

I am super hit and miss with pre-ordering, it’s always an impulse decision but it can be months before I get the gratification. Sometimes I am sure I must have already ordered something because I am looking forward to it so much but somehow I never did. And sometimes I forget that I ordered on Kobo and also get it through iBooks. I should have more of a system.

That one hit my Kindle yesterday too, but I always hold off on Cat Sebastian because once I've read it, I'll be done reading it.

That is a good point.

The library book is Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil which I did start and 20 pages in I do want to keep reading but finishing the remaining 500 or so by Friday seems unlikely.

Anyone have good recs for audiobooks? Preferably sci-fi/fantasy, horror, or thriller. We've had success with Hail Mary, one of Stephen King's Holly Gibney books, and Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak, but the current book that we have powered through is Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. I've liked the couple other books of his that I've read, but this one is not good for an audiobook, and the audiobook narrator is...very much not my taste.

She emotes her way through EVERYTHING, which is okay for dialogue, but when the whole narration is like that, it slows everything way down. Instead of "They were alone" with a narrative perspective, she says "They...WERE........ALONE." There's also a lot of chanting nonsense words and yelling, and those parts of the book are so painful I've skipped through a couple.

I just finished listening to Starling House and it was really good, both the book and the narrator