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I am super hit and miss with pre-ordering, it’s always an impulse decision but it can be months before I get the gratification. Sometimes I am sure I must have already ordered something because I am looking forward to it so much but somehow I never did. And sometimes I forget that I ordered on Kobo and also get it through iBooks. I should have more of a system.

That one hit my Kindle yesterday too, but I always hold off on Cat Sebastian because once I've read it, I'll be done reading it.

That is a good point.

The library book is Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil which I did start and 20 pages in I do want to keep reading but finishing the remaining 500 or so by Friday seems unlikely.

Anyone have good recs for audiobooks? Preferably sci-fi/fantasy, horror, or thriller. We've had success with Hail Mary, one of Stephen King's Holly Gibney books, and Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak, but the current book that we have powered through is Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. I've liked the couple other books of his that I've read, but this one is not good for an audiobook, and the audiobook narrator is...very much not my taste.

She emotes her way through EVERYTHING, which is okay for dialogue, but when the whole narration is like that, it slows everything way down. Instead of "They were alone" with a narrative perspective, she says "They...WERE........ALONE." There's also a lot of chanting nonsense words and yelling, and those parts of the book are so painful I've skipped through a couple.

I just finished listening to Starling House and it was really good, both the book and the narrator

Ooh, I like that author.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Oh, that reminds me! My mom wants another book she can read with Aeryn similar to The Locked Tomb books, and wanted to know how age-inappropriate this one would be. Most sites say "older teen," and Aeryn is 14. I'm fairly permissive about what I let them read, but there's a difference between "I won't stop you from borrowing it from the library" and "I'm going to recommend your grandmother buy this for you so you can read and discuss it together."

(At that age I was sneakily reading Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty porn but I certainly wasn't in a book club about it with my grandmother. )

So, folks who have read it, where does it land on the spice/gore scale?

The first 20 pages are pretty tame...

Unrelated to anything: BookBub just pitched me a murder mystery as "Dan Brown meets Murder, She Wrote "

If I just saw the title and cover I would have been interested but with that description...

Note: I have read and enjoyed MSW tie-in novels, they are fine! Dan Brown, though ::shudder::