Books for August-ish

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

I ended up in a loop of borrowing it from the library, getting partway through and having to return it to give to the next person in the hold queue, and then waiting in the hold queue to borrow it again. But finally! I have escaped the loop! And I really enjoyed it.

Brianna Matthews has been accepted into an early college program shortly after her mother died in a hit and run accident. She's not coping, and not helping is the fact she's found out there's a group of mind wiping demon hunters on campus that might be responsible for her mother's death.

I like Bree's POV; she comes across as being on the raw edge of a break down all the time.

There's another thing I liked, but it's difficult to explain without spoilers. So, you know how often in fantasy stories you get half fairy characters where it's obviously a metaphor for being mixed race, or werewolves as a disability metaphor, but there's zero non metaphorically mixed race or disabled people? Legendborn very much does not do that. Bree is black, and the story is a lot about family and legacy and the way racism affects that, and it comes up in both supernatural and mundane contexts.

I also like how magic works in this setting. There are different groups of magic users, and while you can tell they are all grasping on to different parts of the same elephant, they have wildly different ideas about what's possible and what's morally licit.

Fair warning: it's very YA, so maybe skip if you are not one for masquerades and tournaments and love triangles.

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

An essay collection about different aspects of the human centred planet, with the conceit that he's rating each on a five star scale.

I enjoyed it but-- I very much grew up on vlog brothers? Including John's philosophical videos. So I'm not sure if it's objectively good or just ~tastes like home?

Though it was interesting as a glimpse into John Green's writing process, which comes across as a bit and bizarre to me.

I give the Anthropocene Reviewed 4 stars.

Extreme Timed Exchange 2024 Letter

Hello, person who has matched with me, or is treating me! No matter what you make, I'm probably going to really like it, but I know it's much easier to come up with an idea if you've got some guidance.

Please do not be intimidated by how long the general likes list is. I started doing exchanges years ago, and added likes as I came across them, so it’s gotten… long. But hey, at least it’s a wide variety of things where if you include one of them, you can be pretty sure I’ll like your fic/art/podfic?

I opt in to podfic of my fics.

My ao3 account and my tumblr are both wolffyluna, if you want to have a look at them to get ideas.

Contents

Likes:

• General Likes
• Art Likes
• DNWS

Fandoms:

• Tian Guan Ci Fu
• Mo Dao Zu Shi
• Silmarillion
• We Know The Devil

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( DNWs )

( Tian Guan Ci Fu )

( Mo Dao Zu Shi )

( The Silmarillion )

( We Know The Devil )