The Forbidden Library by Jango Wexler

The Forbidden Library

3/5. Serviceable new adult adventure fantasy about the young orphan girl sent to live with her mysterious "uncle," and it turns out she has the power to read herself into certain books. This does not have, shall we say, great insight into the adolescent female psyche, but, on the other hand, it does have a talking cat.

Mostly, though, I am outraged. I picked this up knowing the NLS had two sequels. I assumed, naively, that it was a trilogy. Nope. It's a quadrology. And I just. What sort of librarian acquires three out of four books and just stops there? I judge. I judge hard. Luckily I'm not interested enough to continue, but boy if I were, I might be over here writing a strongly worded letter, don't you go thinking I wouldn't.

The Collapsing Empire, The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

The Collapsing Empire and The consuming Fire

3/5. The daughter who really was not supposed to inherit the space empire throne does, just as the wormhole thingies that connect this society begin to collapse.

These are very cheerful pop songs of books about the potential collapse of civilization. Fun, light, quick reads featuring an excellent bisexual lady who says "fuck" like it's punctuation that I might have, uh, identified with a bit.