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A magical boarding school story, but seen through the eyes of an adult in charge. The writing is good with an interesting story, believable characters, and convincing world building. The bits about teaching feel especially realistic.

Even demon-infested (a peeve), I loved the first half, but it fizzled out a little at the halfway mark for me. Losing its spark, it became a little ponderous, and a clever protagonist began making poor decisions. Another peeve is when I can spot something coming chapters well in advance. However, if you like Tesh, I suspect you'll love this.

Little Flower, an intelligent, industrious, and dexterous girl, is sold to the wealthy Fong household, and finds life as a slave to the petulant and selfish Linjing intolerable. The novel traces the course of their relationship as it follows them from childhood through to marriageable age.

Didn’t care for this. One protagonist is utterly unlikeable, the other is so willing to martyr herself it beggars belief. A quite sad and depressing read which also felt like a rehash of parts of other books I’ve read in the past. Not for me.

Ji-won's life is falling apart. Friends, school, family, all fragmenting, dissolving. And then one day her mother meets George. Ji-won hates George. With a passion.

I quite enjoyed most of this, the main exception being the dreams. I'm not a fan of dream sequences, ever. The writing was engaging, the story interesting, and it ended with a mostly satisfactory conclusion. Some parts were a little over-the-top, some threads are left a little unfinished, but all in all an enjoyable read. Do NOT read if ommetaphobic. Do read for female rage, and comeuppances.

A friendship story. A game story. A love story. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a bittersweet novel about all this and more. I don’t think you have to be a Gen X gamer to appreciate the flashbacks and the game parts, but I think it hits different if you are. You were there, then. It becomes your story too, if only for a moment.

I enjoyed the writing, and the way characters and all mention of games and gaming feel accurate and authentic. It also left a mark, I’ll be thinking about a certain expression of love for a long time to come.

Serving a potentially endless sentence in a lunar penal colony, Young, a failed Pomp, works on a mining crew. Hallucinations, murders, and paranoia abound as she struggles to get herself together, and off Hibiscus Station.

The self-loathing protagonist spends most of the book brooding, and interacts with a sketchily drawn world, and flat supporting characters. I didn’t care for this, it wasn’t sci-fi enough for me, it uses tropes I dislike, and I absolutely despise excessive rumination on self-worth by characters who lack any. Not for me.