I've been reading since I was three - and building a TBR since then too 😜
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a 1990 novel …
I read this about 20 years ago and liked it then, so I thought I'd give it a re-read. It's nothing like I remember.
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure …
Abandoned after first chapter but I will concede that I am probably the wrong audience for this book; it would more likely appeal to mid-teens. I usually love YA fiction, but I just could not get past the arrogant whine of the main character. I flipped through to spot read to see if her entitled attitude would dial back and then realized I wasn't invested enough in the hints of the story to come presented in chapter one, so back to the library for something different.
I don't know what I was expecting, but I know I was hoping for a book that struck me as much as Animal Dreams did. This book just didn't grab me and had strong after-school special vibes.
A really great imagining of sweeping pandemic and complete societal collapse bogged down by too many side stories of half-formed characters and convenient contrived coincidences that detract from what could have been a fantastic piece of post-apocalyptic fiction.