Trigger Warning vs. Austen 📚Club vs. 9th House
Neil Gaiman vs. Karen Joy Fowler vs. Leigh Bardugo
🖤Fantasies, Chick-Lit🩷, or☠️Academia
This week I found books I recognized that others had recommended to me! Often I don’t recognize most of the novels because my library here has a very eclectic collection and rotates titles faster than I’d expected…which is great if it means people are reading more books 😁. Let’s dive in to the 3-page previews inside each one so that you can vote and tell me which one to review here.
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
This book is a collection of short stories by Neil just having fun and going into deep and dark places, as far as I can tell.
Page 1:
A bit from the middle:
And it ends like this:
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
I love Jane Austen infinitely, so works based on her work will always appeal to me. Yes, it’s apparently a fan fic about a group of women reading Jane Austen.
This fun book opens with:
The midpoint contains:
And here’s the ending:
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
I feel like maybe this book is the one that launched the dark academia trend, and everyone pitched it to me insisting I have to read it.
The first page opens with:
Here’s a snapshot of the midpoint:
Then the ending lands here:
The poll is only open for 7 days, so share it with your friends soon to help push your favorite choice to the top!
Hard to believe I'm voting against Gaiman, but I'd love to learn more about Leigh Bardugo.
Well the people have it! I'll dive into The Ninth House and will get back to you all about my thoughts before the end of this month 😁