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From Dust, a Flame

Rebecca Podos

DID NOT FINISH: 1%

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Steel Crow Saga

Paul Krueger

DID NOT FINISH: 1%

Too visually detailed for me, doesn't mix well with aphantasia.

The Genesis of Misery

Neon Yang

DID NOT FINISH: 12%

The amount of visual detail is too much for my aphantasia.

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Midnight at the Houdini

Delilah S. Dawson

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

DID NOT FINISH: 3%

Having heard for years that the book "I Am Legend" is much better than the movie (which I liked), I tried the book.
Holy crap, that was a quick DNF. The (cis, white, male) protagonist's main complaint about maybe being the last human is how it made him involuntarily celibate. Written in the 1950's, this has not aged well. Also, his reaction to vampire babes moaning sexily outside his window is to be upset about how much he wants to but can't/shouldn't fuck them. I like sexy vampires. I like unsexy vampires. I do not care for man complaining that sexy vampires are a trap.  I stopped after the weird thought exercise about whether vampires are worse than the mothers of politicians and arms manufacturers, distillers, and pornographers. 
The one thing I will grant it is that the audiobook narrator did a great job, their narration reinforced the trapped feeling of his perspective, how much he focuses his thoughts on emotionally safe pathways (for him), and tries to avoid his distress. Unfortunately those pathways are sexist as fuck. 

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Maximus

Stella Rainbow

DID NOT FINISH: 13%

There were constant infodumps as worldbuilding, and I didn't like the style.

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The Jasad Heir

Sara Hashem

DID NOT FINISH: 8%

I might try this again later, but I paused and then forgot to go back to it.

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Dangerous Remedy

Kat Dunn

DID NOT FINISH: 1%

Too visual of a narrative style for me.

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Banewreaker

Jacqueline Carey

DID NOT FINISH: 6%

The setting was detailed and complex in a way that was hard to follow, a lot of lore very densely.

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