Happy that all the Brian stuff is (hopefully?) resolved now. I love watching Bay's necromancer powers grow.

I put this down for a week and had zero desire to pick it back up. It was so boring. What kind of fantasy can possible draw you in when it starts with a bang, then the next part is nine years later, the next is six years later, and the next is a new character? I had hoped for some romance, but Zanja and Karis were immediately separated.

Abandoned at 31%.

Very cute. I liked the full cast audio.

Cringey.

Gave up at 2 hours / 15%. Very boring.

The advertising lies; this is not a southern gothic, it's YA light-thriller.

It's also mediocre at best.

I really liked this when I was young, but it doesn't really hold up to an adult re-read.

My sister and I were discussing how the books do a better job of showing Dandelion and Geralt as real friends than the tv show does, and that was probably my favorite part of this book. Unfortunately, I don't like the random way that Sapkowski reveals worldbuilding and plot information, and how everything seems random and scattered. If I didn't like the show so much I probably wouldn't keep reading.

Though I enjoy his snarky tone and his love of butter and distaste for vegan eating, this book was half biography and half kitchen expose and neither felt very fleshed out.

I gave up at 55% when Karamo, after sharing many, many stories in multiple chapters about how he was an abuser, relates a joke he made on The Real World about stabbing someone -- and then says, "obviously, I would never stab someone."

That's not obvious, and the casual way he said so made my stomach turn.

This book is just an unleashing of all the horrible things Karamo has done over his life, perforated with his assurances that he is not that man anymore.

He was my favorite person on Queer Eye. I wish I had never read this, because I'll never be able to look at him the same way.