Audiobook Review: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 22, 2023 | 0 Comments

I have very mixed feelings about this book. For one, it gets pretty fucking weird at one point (actually, it reminded me of the strange and trippy end of Interstellar, but like…on steroids) and I feel like there was too much going on. This book was a very ambitious attempt at a broad opera spanning timelines, a la Cloud Atlas and Sea of Tranquility. Actually, I’d just listened to the latter only about a month before I picked this one […]

Books I Didn’t Finish: Summer 2023

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 20, 2023 | 0 Comments

Star Bringer DNF @ 5% of audio I made it a whopping FIVE. PERCENT. Lmaoooo. It was 44 minutes, and I listen at almost 2x speed, so I lasted 20 minutes. 🤣 Which is a shame, because there’s multiple narrators (I *swear* the audiobook said Suzy Jackson in the beginning, and I love her, but she wasn’t listed on the title details so maybe I’m just trippin’ lol) and the first couple were decent. But then it got to […]

ARC Review: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 18, 2023 | 0 Comments

This is a fairly difficult book for me to review, because I absolutely hate that I didn’t love it. This was one of my most anticipated 2023 releases…why, you ask? Sentient. computer-savvy. cats. And that cover?! SIGN ME TF UP. And the cat part of it? Fucking AWESOME. That was by far the selling point of this book for me, and it’s what kept me going when things got rocky. I absolutely ADORED Hera (and Persephone, but we don’t get much of […]

Mini Audio Reviews: Sea of Tranquility, Outsider, Book Thief

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 15, 2023 | 0 Comments

Won’t most of us die in fairly unclimactic ways, our passing unremarked by almost everyone, our deaths becoming plot points in the narrative around us? I don’t have a whole lot to say about this book, but between FANTASTIC narration and one of the single most mind blowing twists I’ve ever read, I really enjoyed it! It reminded me a lot of Cloud Atlas, spanning multiple stories across multiple timelines that all interconnect and come together in the end in […]

ARC Review: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 11, 2023 | 0 Comments

“Survival is bravery, too.” I had sky high hopes for this book going in, and while it sadly didn’t meet my expectations, I did still enjoy it for the most part. It was actually quite hard for me to rate this book because I had such mixed feelings over it. While I adored certain aspects of this book, I found others to be rather dull and dragging. My absolute favorite thing about this book is how atmospheric it is! The […]

Heartbeat Monthly [37]: August 2023

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 10, 2023 | 0 Comments

August haul Bought Books Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (German edition) Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (extra copy for annotating) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Light Bringer by Pierce Brown Broken by Jenny Lawson Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törz (Waterstones edition) From subs The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem (Illumicrate, July) Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun (Fairyloot Adult, August) Bonesmith […]