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Hm, let's see.
Calling Invisible Women, Jeanne Ray, which is one of those books in which a metaphor has been made literal and there are no other speculative elements. (In this one, women of menopausal age are literally becoming invisible.) Cute, but verrry conventional, nobody does anything very interesting with their invisibility, and there's a whole bit dedicated to stopping the main character's adult son from getting a, gasp A Tattoo, which really did not work across the generation gap. (It was a stupid tattoo, as it turns out, but she doesn't know that at first.) Sort of interesting in comparison to another metaphor-literalization I started recently, Ben Marcus's The Flame Alphabet, in which the sound of their children talking is literally making suburban parents sick. That was a much weirder, bleaker, and less cozy book, but it also belabored its ideas to the point where I gave up on it (also I skipped to the end and it seemed pretty clear nothing good was going to happen).
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness. Powerful, brutal, and heart-wrenchingly painful, which I guess is Patrick Ness's thing. I'm going to put a spoiler under the cut, if you're thinking about reading it, some people might want to be warned that it's about ( spoiler )
The Governess Affair, Courtney Milan. Excellent romance novella, can't wait to read the rest of the series.
Calling Invisible Women, Jeanne Ray, which is one of those books in which a metaphor has been made literal and there are no other speculative elements. (In this one, women of menopausal age are literally becoming invisible.) Cute, but verrry conventional, nobody does anything very interesting with their invisibility, and there's a whole bit dedicated to stopping the main character's adult son from getting a, gasp A Tattoo, which really did not work across the generation gap. (It was a stupid tattoo, as it turns out, but she doesn't know that at first.) Sort of interesting in comparison to another metaphor-literalization I started recently, Ben Marcus's The Flame Alphabet, in which the sound of their children talking is literally making suburban parents sick. That was a much weirder, bleaker, and less cozy book, but it also belabored its ideas to the point where I gave up on it (also I skipped to the end and it seemed pretty clear nothing good was going to happen).
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness. Powerful, brutal, and heart-wrenchingly painful, which I guess is Patrick Ness's thing. I'm going to put a spoiler under the cut, if you're thinking about reading it, some people might want to be warned that it's about ( spoiler )
The Governess Affair, Courtney Milan. Excellent romance novella, can't wait to read the rest of the series.
