This was an interesting memoir. Wilson tells stories from her life clustered around themes, from her childhood on movie sets through growing up. I appreciated her open discussions of her mental health challenges with OCD.

I loved reading this creepy novella, it hit all the horror notes just right for me.

I have a high opinion of Julie Murphy and was excited to start reading her novels. Unfortunately this one didn't really live up to my expectations, but I'm still planning to read more of her. For me, the way the past and present story lines were woven together instead of progressing linearly from past to present gave much of the story a feeling of obviousness, since you felt like you knew the past story line vaguely before reading it, just from the ways it informs the present story line. This only exacerbated the expected level of predictability of the story's main will-they-won't-they romantic arc.

This one is a hard review because I started out loving this book and then it got so devastating. When I think about it I kind of like some of the things I hated about how it turned, but I'm tired and going fuzzy around the edges so I'm not going to explain that well while avoiding spoilers. I might come back to this review, but I'll definitely be thinking about this book a lot more. Also I want to read a lot more Tana French for sure.

This novel adds much richness to the world and story of the Arcadia Project, although I will say Phantom Pains remains my favorite of the series. I continue to resonate deeply with Millie, even as she baffles me at times. This series is so powerfully character driven, and has such a great conception of fae and magic. I also love how the "sides" are more complex than an absolute "right" vs "wrong," and how considered Millie is in assessing who she stands with and against at a given moment.

I'm so excited about the setting of this book. The culture and the depiction of magic were wonderful, as there is so much to unpack in the tension of people groups with and without magic as they clash with each other. The middle of this book dragged a little for me, especially with all the romantic moments that aren't in general my cup of tea, but the ending was really strong and I'll definitely be interested to read more in this series.

I've been putting off reading this book because I was afraid I wouldn't understand a lot of the references, and my lack of knowledge of the varied literary subjects of the imagined text conversations was worse than I expected! I hadn't even heard of some of the subjects, and even some of the references I thought I would understand didn't click very well. Still, this is a delight to read, with Ortberg's style singing from each page.

A fun story full of JoCo references.

An achingly beautiful, sad and hopeful book. I loved LaCour's prose, and Marin's voice and thoughtfulness.

This book was as sweet and fun to read as I expected, and I was doubly delighted because I hadn't read any descriptions closely enough to know that the setting is a coding program! Dimple is a kick butt protagonist and I loved her.