Lost Coast Literary by Ellie Alexander

I did not expect magical realism in this story, although the blurb does talk about it. Sometimes in such stories, I enjoy a little diversion in the form of magic or the inexplicable, but this time around, I was not as drawn.I began with this introduction not to discount the book but to mention a…

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

There are a few drawbacks of reading books out of order. There are fewer than average drawbacks of reading Discworld books out of order. But I found the first and foremost to be character development. I am so used to viewing a person/creature to be a certain way - the order of things, to be…