I've read 15, DNFd 2 (Gilead; A Manual for Cleaning Women), and have 8 on my TBR list. There are a few on here that are favorites, including Life After Life and Never Let Me Go. I haven't read Jesmyn Ward or Elena Ferrante ... do they really deserve multiple spots on the list at the expense of others you mention such as Groff and Erdich?
I didn't love The Familiar. Like you, I loved Ninth House and it's sequel, thought Shadow and Bone was ok. I felt like all of the characters in The Familiar were kept somewhat removed, behind a pane of frosted glass--I never felt a true affinity with any of them. The random perspective shifting threw me and took me out of the story. And it read (to me) exceptionally slowly.
My best reads of the summer so far have been The Ministry of Time and Time's Mouth. (Yes, we have a theme.) As for the latter, I've been punting it on my Libby holds list for MONTHS and finally queued it up, only to love it.
I've read 15, DNFd 2 (Gilead; A Manual for Cleaning Women), and have 8 on my TBR list. There are a few on here that are favorites, including Life After Life and Never Let Me Go. I haven't read Jesmyn Ward or Elena Ferrante ... do they really deserve multiple spots on the list at the expense of others you mention such as Groff and Erdich?
I didn't love The Familiar. Like you, I loved Ninth House and it's sequel, thought Shadow and Bone was ok. I felt like all of the characters in The Familiar were kept somewhat removed, behind a pane of frosted glass--I never felt a true affinity with any of them. The random perspective shifting threw me and took me out of the story. And it read (to me) exceptionally slowly.
My best reads of the summer so far have been The Ministry of Time and Time's Mouth. (Yes, we have a theme.) As for the latter, I've been punting it on my Libby holds list for MONTHS and finally queued it up, only to love it.