Read in 2024

Did Not Finish

• Aphrodite and the Duke
  by J.J. McAvoy
  (romance, historical)
  DNF first chapter — didn’t like voice
• Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend
  by Emma R. Alban
  (romance, historical)
  DNF first chapter — didn’t like the setup, MC was annoying
• Moonstruck Vol. 1
  by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
  (graphic novel, fantasy)
  DNF first five pages — didn’t like the way characters treated the MC
• Perv
  by Jesse Bering
  (non-fiction)
  DNF page 32 — interesting but kinda icky
• House of Suns
  by Alastair Reynolds
  (sci-fi)
  DNF 6% — just never felt compelled to go back
• A Sweet Mess
  by Jayci Lee
  (romance, contemporary)
  DNF 5% — didn’t like the writing, wasn’t in the right mood
• The Cybernetic Tea Shop
  by Meredith Katz
  (romance, sci-fi)
  DNF 7% – I was uncomfortable with the sentient talking hummingbird being a tool because it wasn’t sapient
• Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots
  by Cat Sebastian
  (romance, historical)
  DNF 48% — rooted in misunderstandings and Not Talking About It
• It Had to Be a Duke
  by Vivienne Lorett
  (romance, historical)
  DNF 13% — heroine is way over the top
• Operation Sunset
  by Susan Hayes
  (romance, sci-fi)
  DNF 28% — I wasn’t engaged
• Arsenic and Adobo
  by Mia P. Manansala
  (mystery, cozy)
  DNF 16% — don’t like the main character
• Remedial Magic
  by Melissa Marr
  (fantasy, paranormal)
  DNF
• Passing Strange
  by Ellen Klages
  (magical realism, alt history)
  DNF 17% — didn’t realize it’d be broken up into shorter parts, and I’m generally not a fan of past/present framing stories
• The Annual Migration of Clouds
  by Premee Mohamed
  (sci-fi, post-apocalyptic)
  DNF 13% — wasn’t feeling it
• Unbound
  by Christy Healy
  (romantasy)
  DNF 20% – the time jumps are confusing and the love interest keeps negging her — Darkly She Goes did the monstrous princess better
• Land of Milk and Honey
  by C. Pam Zhang
  (sci-fi, post-apocalyptic)
  DNF 20% — there’s an odd distance to the narration despite the almost lustful paeans to food
• Burning Roses
  by S.L. Huang
  (fantasy)
  DNF 18% — main character was too self-loathing
• The Dragon of Ynys
  by Minerva Cerridwen
  (fantasy)
  DNF 50% — painfully earnest
• Last Ship Off Polaris-G
  by Carol Van Natta
  (romance, sci-fi)
  DNF 6% — opening too slow
• Goblin Girl
  by Moa Romanova
  (graphic memoir)
  DNF 50% — lost interest / taking too long
• The Path of Thorns
  by A.G. Slatter
  (fantasy, gothic)
  DNF 5% — wasn’t for me
• How to Catch a Duke
  by Grace Burrowes
  (romance, historical)
  DNF 18% — hate when the hero has a piece on the side
• The Mimicking of Known Successes
  by Malka Older
  (sci-fi, mystery)
  DNF 20% — didn’t feel drawn back to it
• Floating Hotel
  by Grace Curtis
  (sci-fi)
  DNF 17% — put off by a few choices in the first two chapters
• Chaos Terminal
  by Mur Lafferty
  (sci-fi)
  DNF 10% — need to read the first book first
• High Times in the Low Parliament
  by Kelly Robson
  (fantasy)
  DNF 10% — not my vibe
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
  by Heather Fawcett
  (fantasy, romance)
  DNF 5% — main character was too dopey
• The Sentence
  by Louise Erdrich
  (fiction)
  DNF 20% — just very strange
• The Fire Never Goes Out
  by ND Stevenson
  (graphic memoir)
  DNF after first chapter — didn’t like the piecemeal approach
• A Mage’s Guide to Human Familiars
  by AJ Sherwood
  (romance, paranormal)
  DNF 4% — icky age gap
• A Good Rogue is Hard to Find
  by Kelly Bowen
  (romance, historical)
  DNF 10% — just not my jam
• The Fire Rose
  by Mercedes Lackey
  (fantasy)
  DNF 18% — really disliked the heroine
• Belzebubs
  by J.P. Ahonen
  (comic strips)
  DNF halfway — too rote
• Heating & Cooling
  by Beth Ann Fennelly
  (memoir)
  DNF 26% — not my thing
• The Employees
  by Olga Ravn
  (sci-fi, literary)
  DNF 20% — little difference in tone or style between all the interviewees
• Bix
  by Scott Chantler
  (graphic biography)
  DNF 50% — the wordlessness became a gimmick
• The Faerie Hounds of York
  by Arden Powell
  (fantasy)
  DNF 13% – put it down and didn’t feel the urge to come back
• The Disaster Tourist
  by Ko-Eun Yuen
  (literary fiction)
  DNF 6% — sexual assault
• Feed Them Silence
  by Lee Mandelo
  (horror)
  DNF 7% — too horror for me!
• Work It Out
  by Sarah Kurchak
  (non-fiction, wellness)
  the design of the book didn’t match the content for me and it deterred reading — would have been better as ebook?
• Across a Field of Starlight
  by Blue Delliquanti
  (graphic novel, sci-fi)
  a little too YA
• How Not to Date a Demon
  by Lana Kole
  (romance, paranormal)
  DNF 65% — surprisingly unsexy for the amount of sex in it :/ — didn’t like either of the protags much
• Dragon Ever After
  by Louisa Masters
  (romance, paranormal)
  DNF 51% — didn’t like one of the love interests
• Consort of Fire
  by Kit Rocha
  (romance, fantasy)
  DNF 10%ish — was getting antsy
• The Faerie Hounds of York
  by Arden Powell
  (fantasy)
  DNF 13% — just didn’t catch me