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Title: The Library of the Unwritten
Author: A.J. Hackwith
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 440
Date read: February, 2022

Every book left unfinished by its author is filed away in the Unwritten Wing, a neutral space in Hell presided over by Claire, its head librarian. Along with repairing and organizing books, her job consists of keeping an eye on restless stories whose characters risk materialising and escaping the library.

When a Hero escapes from his book and goes in search of his author, Claire must track and capture him with the help of former muse and current assistant Brevity and nervous demon courier Leto. But what should have been a simple retrieval goes horrifyingly wrong, in a chase that threatens to reshape the boundaries between Heaven, Hell... and Earth.


VERY different from what I had expected from reading the back blurb and the first chapter. There was a lot less focus on the library and a lot more focus on the 'quest' Claire and her companions went on. Which unfortunately meant I was less enamored by the book than I had expected to be. It was still good, but as a general rule I don't really enjoy reading about demons and angels. I had hoped this would be the exception that proved the rule, but unfortunately that didn't turn out to be the case.

For the same reason I have no desire to continue on with the series, but will leave it behind here. Fortunately it works pretty well as a stand-alone novel.

Title: Later
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Paranormal / Horror
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 264 pages
Date read: February 2022

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.


Honestly, I don't really know... It was one of those "it was good, but..." books. I never really got what Stephen King was trying to do. At the same time, I had a really hard time putting it down, so at the end of the day I'm glad I've read it, but it's probably not a book I'll reread.

Title: People We Meet On Vacation
Author: Emily Henry
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 2.5/5
# pages: Audiobook ~11 hrs
Date read: February, 2022

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?


This book suffered from many of the same issues as "The Road Trip" by Beth O'Leary. I just don't appreciate reading about people who used to be close (whether as friends, lovers or family) having a falling out and becoming estranged. This was slightly better than "The Road Trip" as they generally handled it more maturely, but still. I hate the trope of having a couple split up before they can get back together again. Surely a book's conflict can be something other than that - even in a chick-lit.

*Ahrem*... alright, getting off my soap-box now.

I liked reading about Poppy and Alex' friendship, and just wish the book hadn't succumbed to the old "two people of opposite sexes can never just be friends" - but I knew that was going to happen going into the book, so it didn't bother me as much as it could have.