This is the latest Toby Daye story and (spoiler alert) while I'm so thrilled that Tybalt and Toby are doing well again, there were some major bombs in this story!! I have so many questions!!!!!!!!
92. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
I had heard that this was an amazing mystery, so I checked it out from the library. It has a the feel of a real Clue game but like a real Clue game- real in the uber British sense. It's fascinating! Our narrator doesn't know what's going on at first, and neither do we. If you read blurbs, it's given away pretty early on. I would say, resist! Just ride the confusion with the narrator. If you do read the blurbs, you won't know know what's going on, but sit with the confusion a bit and feel what the narrator's feeling. It's fascinating!
93. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
This is the last book in an unusual trilogy. The universe Becky Chambers has created is amazing! It's so deeply thought-out and so full of vivid and engaging characters, species, inhabitants. The three books have a relationship with each other, but in no way need to be read together. Obviously if you do, you will have a different experience than if you don't but... At first I thought the second one (A Closed and Common Orbit) was the best, but now I'm not sure. Perhaps it's Record of a Spaceborn Few. So good news, it's a trilogy that gets better as it goes along!
94. Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
A little girl on her bike falls through a hole and lands on a giant metal hand. What is the hand? How did it get there? Why is it there? The unraveling of the mystery is what drives the book. It is not told in the traditional narrative form. We read the transcripts of recorded interviews and journal entries to see how this story unfolds.
95. The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
A girl alone in space... I feel like this must some how be in the zeitgeist because I feel like I keep encountering it. The first two examples that pop into my head are this one and Girl in Space podcast. At any rate, this is a very touching and gripping story about a girl in space.
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