I really liked this! There's actually a lot of reading involved here, so I'm including it in my reading goal because I can do whatever I want!
Giving it a 4 because, if you're an avid watching of CR content, some of the stuff here is just repeating that. 

This last book in the Tensorate series really encapsulates all the different themes we find throughout the series; the bounds of fate and trying to break them, the state and the way it manipulates its people, and love and betrayal and loss and how that changes you. I loved the way it revisted all those themes. 
I also really liked the idea of having a villain origin story narrated by someone who is not the antagonist, rather, someone close to them that was betrayed by them. It was a nice change from a lot of origin stories we see that almost shed the antagonist and the awful things they do in a 'devil's advocate' sort of light. 
However, I can't help but feel a little disappointed at all the loose plot ends left behind. It makes me wonder if the author maybe has an inkling of continuing the series? I was felt feeling pretty underwhelmed by this despite liking the writing and the themes. 

While the books in this series are all sequels to each other, they read a bit more like companions, each jumping to a different main character but all following the same plot arc. This one was super interesting as something goes down at a research institute and the whole novel is told is journal entries, correspondence, and interviews. While the first book remains my favourite in the series, this is a close second. It especially looks at the extent to which the state will go to manipulate and cover up information in an investigation to have a certain group of people look dangerous. sounds... familiar.... hmmmm

Didn't like this one as much as the first. I found Mokoya's overall character development a little lacking - the same issues I had with her in the first book, but this time she's our main character. 

First of all, I loved that this novella features an intersex main character. While I'm sure there are many other books with intersex characters out there, this was my first and I'm not intersex myself, so I can't speak on the representation, but I thought it was pretty well done. 
This one is for the stereotyped "horse girls" as it follows Reagan as she finds herself in the Hooflands, a mystical land made up of, you guessed it, hoofed creatures. 
I thought this could have been like a whole 400 page book on its own, following the entire journey of Reagan as we expect it to be in the Wayward Children series. Part of me is disappointed we didn't get that, but part of me wondering if we might have though it too predictable had it been that. Alas, we shan't know, but I did still absolutely love this nonetheless. The development of the world and its characters, the mystery of a human in the Hooflands, and the background commentary on the functionings of society and its communities. Overall well done, and even more, I really enjoyed it! 

I'm literally about to gift this book to everyone I know. EVERY white Canadian needs to read this book. 

I can't say much that won't spoil the first book, but I loved this book more than the first, and the first is literally one of my favourite books. 
The biggest development of this is in Son of a Trickster, Jared is so deeply loyal to his friends and family, to the point where he puts himself in harms way for them. He is constantly trying to help the people around him. But in this book he finds himself in a situation where people are constantly trying to help him, and he has to weigh whether or not they're doing it with no strings attached or because they want something from him. He's okay with be loyal to others, but has a hard time accepting loyalty himself (because it has and may bite him in the ass). 
I'm actually pretty glad I waited to read this until now because I'm dying to read the last and it comes out soon!

It's so interesting to read an author's old work from before they were established as they currently are. There's definitely some weird ones here, but overall it was enjoyable!

I went into this book only knowing that it had greek mythology elements and I was really pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the "game" aspect of the plot. It's super violent, but I really don't mind that in books, and the main character has a really angry and violent outlook on life, which 15 year-old me related to hard. Overall, I would recommend it and will recommend it to people at work, and teenage Emily definitely saw no flaw in it, so in that aspect I think it's great!
24 year-old, Emily, however, saw some issue in the development of the characters, and the lack of female friendships and diversity. I also had some issue with the pacing, it's an extremely fast-paced book for how long it is, and things are constantly happening one right after the other. There are a few mysteries going on in the background and I found that because of the quickness of the book, twists kept getting thrown at me and left me a little bit confused as to what was going on.
I think this book would've benefitted to have the Agon be like, a month instead of 8 days, that way all the plot could have happened still, but there would have been breathing room to better contextualize the modern fantasy elements. (idk if that makes sense, I'm rambling.)
I was disappointed in the lack of diversity of the characters as well, even though all of them are Greek, it takes place in modern-day New York City, one of the most diverse cities ever (plus, who says Greek people have to be white, anyways). 
As for the lack of female friendships, it really bothered me that all the female characters, including Lore, the main character, [minor spoilers] all eventually had ulterior motives going on that never really allowed those female alliances to happen, when there is literally a whole conversation in the middle of the book talking about the blatant misogyny that goes on within this world.