2025.Book11 - The House of Open Wounds (Tchaikovsky)

 Excellent follow-up. Much more fun - the stakes are still high and things are still awful, but the good guys win more often.

2025.Book10 - Streets of Laredo (McMurtry)

 More good western epic. Some horror elements, kind of slid in sideways. Sequel problem of "oh yeah this other thing happened in the first book I didn't tell you about - Mox Mox". McMurtry's not scared to kill his characters off-page.

2025.Book9 - Black Powder War (Novik)

 Another good one in the series.

2025.Book8 - Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)

 Really good western epic.

2025.Book7 - City of Last Chances (Tchaikovsky)

 Very good. Drama and action in an occupied city in a complicated world.

2025.Book6 - The Invisible Library (Cogman)

 Pretty good; a bit amateurish in characterization and internal monologue but maybe the rest of the series is better.

2025.Book5 - The Nickel Boys (Whitehead)

 Really good. A mostly sad story.

2025.Book4 - The Case of the Philosophers' Ring

 Kind of goofy; Holmes meets Cambridge philosphers

2025.Book3 - Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind (McGhee)

 Pretty good; trying to be all metaphoric and relevant, but not really successfully. And what's with the drive-by DFW reference?

2025.Book2 - The Jade Throne (Novik)

 Good sequel: lots of violence.

2025.Book1 - His Majesty's Dragon (Novik)

 Fun, master & commander with dragons.

2024.Book50 - A Beam of Light (Camilleri)

 Another good one.

2024.Book49 - Exordia (Dickinson)

 Mind-blowingly good. Ending kind of disappointing, but so much excellent stuff in this.

2024.Book48 - The Great When (Moore)

 Very nice stuff. Funny, weird. Great that it's kind of real.

2024.Book47 - Game of Mirrors (Camilleri)

 Another good one. The contrast between horrible murder and comedy is jarring.

2024.Book46 - The Rosie Project (Simsion)

 Very entertaining.

2024.Book45 - Minding Frankie (Binchy)

 Fine, kind of low level.

2024.Book44 - The Quincunx (Palliser)

 Pretty good; too long and complicated.

2024.Book43 - Health and Safety (Witt)

 Very good. But once again, the least interesting of the three gets the most attention.

2024.Book42 - The Message (Coates)

 Nothing to disagree with. Except the fallacy of projecting haunting into the world instead of recognizing self-haunting.