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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo

DID NOT FINISH: 53%

While topics are important, there are too many characters and details. It is a really good history lesson, but I keep tuning out.  I expected something different.  

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Devils Kill Devils

Johnny Compton

DID NOT FINISH: 12%

I could not get into the writing style of Devils Kill Devils.  A lot words with not much happening.  And also it gets kinda religious.  Just not for me. 

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

DID NOT FINISH: 52%

The Glass Castle has lot of wild stories (some I find hard to believe) and irresponsible parenting.  I don’t know who Jeannette Walls is and found myself not vested in her story.  So at about 52-ish % I decided to not continue this book. 

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No Longer Human

Junji Ito

DID NOT FINISH: 50%

I did not finish No Longer Human because I lost interest.  All the psychological analyzations and questioning about humanity was annoying.  Other than that Yozo is just going around sleeping with a lot of women, drinking, causing trouble for other people, and seeing ghosts.  I didn't care to continue another 300 pages of the same self destructive behavior.  However, the art work was good.  Very creepy images and lovely naked ladies.  Glad I did not read the original.  

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Vagabonds!

Eloghosa Osunde

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

I didn’t like the metaphoric and roundabout prose and there are too many characters.  The cover is cool though

Witch King

Martha Wells

DID NOT FINISH: 40%

Firstly, I received Witch King as a #netgalleyARC.  I thought there were too many characters, complicated names of things, and places that I couldn't keep up.  Also there were names of things not explained and despite the legend in the front of the books I was still confused.  I was not vested enough in the book to continue.  Cool magical system of reading minds, witches and demons.   

Temper

Nicky Drayden

DID NOT FINISH: 21%

Temper was not for me and I did not finish (got to page 80). Too many immature characters and abstract concepts, rich/poor people talking mess to each other, ghosts/hearing things, just too much going on. Not what I thought it was and wasn’t invested in Auder’s plight of proximity. Interesting concept of the lesser and higher twin though.