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Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation

DID NOT FINISH: 10%

An old book from a college class on Robin Hood that isn't super readable.

Jade City

Fonda Lee

DID NOT FINISH: 8%

Giving up at 8%. It wasn't a bad book, just not for me. If I'm going to read a mob story I require banter and hijinks and this book does not appear to know the definition of either of those words.

A fairy tale, a romance, a series of increasingly horrific events. I don't want to go to this world, but I would absolutely hang out with the dust-wife and her demon chicken.

So boring.

Bonus section to the audiobook of Half A Soul.

Dull, self-righteous protagonist and mediocre prose.

The Deep

Alma Katsu

DID NOT FINISH: 13%

Me: Have you read anything by Alma Katsu?
My sister: Yeah, she wrote that book about the Donner party that was so boring. How do you even make a book about the Donner party boring?
Me: I started one that's supposed to be a horror novel but so far it is just so boring. I don't even know if I want to finish it.
My sister: I wouldn't. *shrug*

And I believe her. Abandoned at 13% after reading the Wikipedia plot synopsis and I have no regrets.

Meh.

As part of my ongoing project to read and yeet any books on my shelves that I don't love, we come to my freshman year college history textbook which was honestly surprisingly readable. I learned a lot of things and now I need a fluffy fantasy novel.