Super-speedy adventure scifi with some really crunchy questions about life and AI thrown in. I both appreciated the messiness of the questions and also occasionally felt that things worked out a little too...okay in the sense of people doing the right thing. But also it's 2021 and my cynicism knows no bounds so I'm not going to claim definitively that that was the book's problem.

If you liked The House by the Cerulean Sea...yeah I have no idea how you’ll feel about this. 
If your main problem with twilight was that it was decidedly too straight, had too many vampires, and not enough sex, I can highly recommend this book. 
This, incidentally, is not the first time I wandered into an author’s back catalog after really enjoying their most recent sweet queer romance and found a queer fix-it-fic. Last time it was Alexis Hall takes on 50 Shades and makes it very gay and also fixes the portrayal of BDSM. Here, Klune decides that the omegaverse is fundamentally mistreating wolfkind and vampires are a waste of space. And also Bella’s weird “I’m useless and everyone likes me anyway” is not how high school works. 
This is another “people who like this sort of thing will find that this is the sort of thing the like” book.

One of the things this book did surprisingly well, given the genre, was not making the language cringe. I feel like the books I love are more likely to lean into the "we are not portraying history, we are viewing an era through a modern lens" and are actively trying for the flavor of the regency, not the experience. Marlowe tries for the experience and does a pretty good job, overall.
And also reading this soon after The Duke Who Didn't does the actual plot no favors.

This book is a fucking delight.
I could leave the review there, but since it's a romance novel, I am contractually obligated to talk about how--in between the sex and the scoundrelry--Charles is deeply interested in the question of wealth, class, power, and the struggle to have enough of what you need. It's really interesting because it's an update of the era's own obsession with the idea of the gentleman. Is it about birth or character? The movement towards character as the defining feature is deeply Victorian. And Charles calls into question what counts as character; what is it that we value in a person.
Also I am EMBARRASSED at how long it took me to get the jokes in the names.

This felt a bit like someone’s dnd character coming to life and living through their backstory and their first major campaign. Which, to be clear, is absolutely not a criticism of what is a really fun story in a great world. 

Are you in the mood to be angry, nay FURIOUS at the Reformation? Are you ready to howl about the bombings of places you probably didn't know existed? Are you suddenly wondering about the security of all the material you've ever created in your life?
Do I have the book for you!
Part story, part call-to-action, part homage to the Bodleian Library, Ovenden has written a book about the importance of where the things we know live and the reasons our stories need our constant, active protection in order to survive. You guys, we have lost SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE. Ovenden's book barely scratches the surface of how much and is a reminder of the work needed to protect what we have.

Me: I’m not really sure I’m getting into this book.
Also me: wow, I really want noodles with sesame oil and tofu for dinner. I wonder why that is?
This was super fun, although it was a bit of a slow build, I think in part because it took me a while to really get the way the class was operating in this book. Which I think was my fault, the book was pretty clear about it. Anyway, it was very sweet and Chloe was AWESOME. 
I am also really loving the “petty revenge against the patriarchy“ that has been pervading Milan‘s recent books.

Martine's SF is just SO GOOD and the way that she negotiates really crunchy issues through storytelling is just perfect.
This book isn't about empire in the same way that book 1 was, but it's about what happens when empire looks in the glass darkly and whether it can see itself and how and also just the way that naivete can work when it works and, oof, I liked it SO much.

Unrelated, why is the entire spec-fic universe suddenly obsessed with fungus!?

This book is EXACTLY what it says on the tin.

I love when a book actually tells real Jewish fantasy. It's one thing to throw a golem into the mix, but to tell a story with true Jewish sensibilities is much rarer. Savit does so beautifully here, understanding that the struggle is not about good versus evil or God versus demons (and his sheydim are excellent!) but about doing the right thing at the right time, whatever that might be.
It was brilliant.