Akiva Reads

by Seanan McGuire

I was looking for something fun and relaxing to read. THIS WAS NOT RELAXING. (Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog is doing a better job.)

It was good, though! Wow, PLOT. As other people say, I can't even begin to go into it, and it's so clear that McGuire was planning this all along. You'll be kicking yourself for not noticing some of the clues; I know I did.

I wasn't thrilled with how Toby acted towards some of her friends and allies, but I'll have to think it over and decide if she's as much in the wrong as I think she is. Throughout the series, she is sometimes way too harsh with people. She never apologizes or gets called out for it, and often the people in question don't even seem to hold it against her.

Her falling-out with Sylvester and Luna is gut-wrenchingly sad to me, which was maybe the intent. But still, ouch.

On a totally unrelated note, I finally learned how to buy ebooks from somebody other than Amazon, although I still have to figure out how to get Kobo books through independent bookstores instead of their website. I will probably be buying ebooks more often now!