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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

DID NOT FINISH

dnf'ing at 25%

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

DID NOT FINISH

I'm DNF'ing at 38% because I am so bored I want to die and the idea of reading this is making me not want to read books ever again. Bye.

Nevernight

Jay Kristoff

DID NOT FINISH

I'm DNF'ing at 60%

I really wanted to like this book. LIKE REALLY, I DID.

The book is so heavily descriptive that I was not enjoying myself. Some of the similes and metaphors didn't even make sense and were highly unnecessary. I was going to suffer through it because the plot was interesting, but then
Spoilerthere was a sex scene so clearly written by a man for a man's gaze that made me extremely uncomfortable to read. Also why the fuck was there that whole thing about Mia's boobs, it was weird.
and these things don't normally bother me enough to DNF, but all of it together left me with a book I didn't want to finish.

The Tale of the Body Thief

Anne Rice

DID NOT FINISH

No more lestat

Golden Son

Pierce Brown

DID NOT FINISH

no <3 (dnf @ 30%)

The Gift

Lewis Hyde

DID NOT FINISH

dnf @ 25%

Machinehood

S.B. Divya

DID NOT FINISH

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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I unfortunately am DNF’ing this book at 32%. I don’t find it all that interesting, and, found myself skipping over Welga’s chapters entirely for the side-character that is Nithya. I really wanted to enjoy this and it sounded incredibly interesting, but the plot just did not at any point get interesting enough for me to continue to read. Unfortunately for me, if a book is not interesting by 25%, it’s not worth continuing.

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry

C.M. Waggoner

DID NOT FINISH

dnf @ 40%, longer review to come

The Shadow Coven

Nissa Leder

DID NOT FINISH

dnf'ing @ 50% because I just don't care that much about the plot

And Now She's Gone

Rachel Howzell Hall

DID NOT FINISH

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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

DNF @ 50%
TW: domestic violence, irresponsible drug use

I had to DNF this for many reasons, but the primary reason being the domestic violence descriptions being personally triggering (unusual for me). The writing was hard for me to get into it, and there were too many characters. I found that any time I started to enjoy the plot or the story, another character of interest was introduced, and I felt distracted and swamped. Additionally, there’s a way to do multiple plot lines in a book, past and present, and this didn’t work well for me. Instead of adding to the interest, I found myself internally groaning anytime we switched plots. We also just sort of offhand mention our main character abusing pain killers and driving and that was weird.