ORIGINAL SIN (Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson) - June 21/25

 Pretty endless, this book. Some of it is interesting but mostly I just wanted a summary. Who needs or wants this much detail? ** out of ****

ALL SYSTEMS RED (Martha Wells) - June 8/25

 I could not get into this in the slightest. It’s all descriptive stuff of things I couldn’t have cared less about and the book doesn’t contain a single interesting character. At least it’s short. * out of ****

PLAYDATE (Alex Dahl) - June 6/25

 This turned into quite a page turner in its final stretch but man it was a slog getting to that point. Chapter after chapter of stuff I didn’t really care about, including the perspective of the kidnapped kid and the Lisbeth Salander-esque reporter’s investigation, to the point where the book feels about five times longer than necessary. **1/2 out of ****