maybe I need to read less

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Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi. I felt like there was a lot of buzz about this book and I had to wait in an almost 200 person library queue to get it (12 digital copies, which is the most I've ever seen of something) and then I ended up not liking it at all. When your whole book is pitched at the same emotional monotone of urgent!! danger!! angst!! and tragedy!! it's just exhausting. Time to break out a sentence I feel like I use a lot: maybe it would work for actual Young Adults, but not me. I think if I want to keep trying to read YA I need to get a lot better about just stopping reading things that I'm not into. I'm usually a compulsive finisher but that's not really compatible with trying to strike gold in an increasingly hit-or-miss genre for me.