A fox, a sentence, and an island, but no heroics -- four DNF books.

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F: Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit
G: Glass Sentence
H: Strictly No Heroics
I: The Island


DNF #64: Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Set in Chinatown in San Francisco, in a world where magic exists, Theo inherits his older brother's fox spirit guardian when the brother dies.

I loved the story setting, but the story was meant for much younger readers than me and I just couldn't connect with it. I was okay with Theo, but the fox spirit was like a bratty five year old kid. DNFed early in.

DNF #65: Glass Sentence by S. E. Grove. I don't know if the author intended this to be so similar to MAGA Republicans or if he was trying to make a point, but I did not enjoy reading what seemed like "Trump taking over an alternate US". There were some scifi elements as well, but I just was not at all enjoying this book, so DNFed it pretty quickly.

DNF #66: Strictly No Heroics by B. L. Radley. Ever feel like a book just wasn't written for you? This one was exactly that. While I liked the story (in a world with superheroes, a girl from a bad neighborhood had to become a henchman to make money for her family), it was full of modern day slang (swole, sus), modern references (Twitter, Tumblr, Drake, and other singers), and seemed to be written for the typical Tumblr user: Do you believe every single character in a book must be a POC, LGBTQ, disabled, or if possible all of the three? Do you use "late-stage capitalism" unironically? Then you'll probably really like this book.

The author gave her own book 5 stars on Goodreads, which also highly annoys me.

DNF #67: The Island by Jen Minkman. ...huh. I went to Goodreads to see if other people thought this was as bad as I did, only to find that I had read the whole thing in 2013. Link to my original review. I'm so glad I DNFed it early on this time! The story was so unoriginal, "the Force" being a religion was so weird, and the writing and editing were bad.