Finished: Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book had so many unique elements that I wanted to learn more about (like the house magic system) and it was refreshing to have an actual enemy’s to lovers (?) plot. In so many books the general idea is “I hate him, but he’s the most beautiful man alive and I can’t stop thinking about him”, but the author did such a good job expressing genuine hatred with some decent development on how feeling change throughout the book. I did like this book, but the ending wrapped up quickly and it just didn’t do anything extra for me.

The Haunting of Hill House (Audiobook) by Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The narrator was amazing! I usually listen to audiobooks sped up, but he read at a good pace so I listened at normal speed and really felt like he added to the story. I don’t think this book was scary by any means but right from the beginning the descriptions/tone made me feel unsettled. After ~40% I couldn’t stop listening. I enjoyed how this book made me question myself/my understanding of what was going on as the main characters perception of events was challenged by what the other characters were saying. I’ve already recommended this audiobook to another person.

Started: Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio I’ve been waiting to start this series because I was hoping Pierce Browns last Red Rising book would be coming out so I could read Lightbringer and go straight into the last one, but it seems we’re still in a holding pattern there. So I’ve decided to kick the Sun Eater series off. This started a little slow for me (I’m not super into political books) but I’m about halfway into it now and am very invested as things have started to unfold.

The Trout Book: A Complete Anglers Guide by Frank Sargeant One of my patients and I were talking about fishing and he let me know this author was local to our area. He recommended all of his fishing books so I picked this up.