2024 book 179

 Olivia Waite's Hen Fever

After slogging through a long and slow epic fantasy series, and with the election on the horizon, I needed something LIGHT and FUN to read. Enter this historical romance novel I've been saving for a rainy day, which involves queer ladies and also chickens. (It’s not a hundred percent fluffy—one of the women is a war widow with PTSD.) Anyway, it was just what I wanted, and my only complaint is that it's a novella and could have benefited from more pages developing things. But definitely very fun. A-.

2024 book 178

 Kate Elliott's The Traitor's Gate

Ok, this was super slow and I don’t think it needed to be 900 pages. I was more interested in some characters than others, or course, but some parts reallllllly dragged. The last quarter was solid and I did like the end, even if a lot of stuff that came before was a major bummer. Interesting series for sure but I think if it was more streamlined,it’d have been stronger. B+.