Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab. Another book the boy gave me for my birthday. I found it a little hard to believe that a vampire would take 15 years to notice that when she drank the blood of a drunk person that made her drunk also. There was a moment when I was afraid she was going to forget all about finishing Catty's story, but she didn't let me down.
LHC #304: Mammoths at the Gates by Ngi Vo. Audiobook. Sequel! It had a 4-week hold and then it was available. Weird. I liked it, and put the next sequel on my list. It had a slow burn, at least in the audio version.
LHC #305: The Manticore by Robertson Davies. eBook. Catching up on sequels! I had no expectations and had to read the wikipedia page for Fifth Business to remember what was going on, but it was no trouble to read.
LHC #306: Galveston by Sean Stewart. Hard copy. The last of the "1 copy" books in Toronto Public Library! I had no expectations going in. Great story. I loved how Josh would diagnose people inside his head and not be able to do anything about it.
LHC #307: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. eBook. Sequel! Also the next book on my library holds list, and a sequel and part of the grand sequel-reading project. Too many characters. I never felt like the hook at the end of the last book, "Stay away from Orion Lake" really paid off. Maybe that will be in the next book.
LHC #308: Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly. Audiobook. Sequel! I am heartily sick of MRK's wistful reading style. Not that sad to be done with these, either. I feel like I'm listening to them out of obligation at this point. Though I suspect if I hadn't read them over a 4-year period I might have liked books 2 and 3 better. I remember thinking that Cyril was the most interesting character in Book 1 and it was such a disappointment that he wasn't in book 2 at all.