Reviews

Member reviews

• Educated reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Five months in the queue.

  Educated · @libbyoverdrive · 17 May 2026

• Six of Crows reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Kaz Brekker has ruined heist films for me. Six terrible children, one impossible job, and I read the last stretch standing up in the kitchen because sitting down didn't feel serious enough.

  Six of Crows · @tinyapartmentbigtbr · 16 May 2026

• Children of Time reviewed by @hollowknightfan99

  9/ 109 out of 10

  SPIDERS. and I do not even like spiders

  Children of Time · @hollowknightfan99 · 16 May 2026

• The Lies of Locke Lamora reviewed by @hollowknightfan99

  9/ 109 out of 10

  heist fantasy done PROPERLY! the flashbacks do the Ocean's Eleven trick where you get the plan after the con. also it is filthy and very funny and then it turns mean and I was not remotely ready. book two is a step down, sorry everyone.

  The Lies of Locke Lamora · @hollowknightfan99 · 15 May 2026

• The Three-Body Problem reviewed by @books_and_bins

  5/ 105 out of 10

  Decent idea buried under a load of physics chat. Liked the countdown in the eyes. The rest was a slog and I've no plans to start the next one.

  The Three-Body Problem · @books_and_bins · 14 May 2026

• The Sellout reviewed by @mx_marginalia

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Yes. Loud, filthy, yes.

  The Sellout · @mx_marginalia · 13 May 2026

• Quiet reviewed by @plainjaneausten

  9/ 109 out of 10

  I sent my flatmate four screenshots of this in one evening

  Quiet · @plainjaneausten · 13 May 2026

  1515 readers agree with this review

• Pride and Prejudice reviewed by @bookclubdropout

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Our fourth attempt at a classic and the first that actually worked.

  Pride and Prejudice · @bookclubdropout · 13 May 2026

  11 reader agrees with this review

• Entangled Life reviewed by @dr_bramble

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  Not plants! Not remotely plants, and I've never minded less. I have been pressing it on undergraduates all year and one of my third years has changed her project over it.

  Entangled Life · @dr_bramble · 13 May 2026

• The Brothers Karamazov reviewed by @the_slow_reader

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  The only ten in my notebook.

  The Brothers Karamazov · @the_slow_reader · 12 May 2026

  22 readers agree with this review

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog reviewed by @quietcarriage

  5/ 105 out of 10

  I wanted to shove the child.

  The Elegance of the Hedgehog · @quietcarriage · 12 May 2026

  22 readers agree with this review

• Hamnet reviewed by @the_slow_reader

  8/ 108 out of 10

  The flea chapter is worth the price on its own.

  Hamnet · @the_slow_reader · 12 May 2026

  1212 readers agree with this review

• The Left Hand of Darkness reviewed by @kepler22b

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  the invented folk tales & field notes between chapters build more world than any of the exposition does, and the ice crossing is the best long walk in the genre.

  The Left Hand of Darkness · @kepler22b · 11 May 2026

• All the Light We Cannot See reviewed by @bookclubdropout

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Everyone cried except the tall one, who said the short chapters felt like a phone buzzing, and honestly he isn't wrong, and I cried anyway.

  All the Light We Cannot See · @bookclubdropout · 11 May 2026

• Influence reviewed by @ivor_stack

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Correct in its mechanisms, and forty years out of date in its examples.

  Influence · @ivor_stack · 11 May 2026

  11 reader agrees with this review

• The Way of Kings reviewed by @dnf_diaries

  2/ 102 out of 10

  Abandoned p.94, 2 January

  The Way of Kings · @dnf_diaries · 10 May 2026

• The Goldfinch reviewed by @dnf_diaries

  5/ 105 out of 10

  DNF at p.402

  The Goldfinch · @dnf_diaries · 10 May 2026

• Beloved reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

  8/ 108 out of 10

  The past comes back with a body and a name and sits down in the house. Enormously powerful. I found the timeline hard to hold, and that is my failing rather than hers.

  Beloved · @an_ordinary_tuesday · 9 May 2026

• The Road reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  A man and a boy walk south.

  The Road · @commuterfiction · 9 May 2026

• Stoner reviewed by @quietcarriage

  8/ 108 out of 10

  A quiet man loses slowly.

  Stoner · @quietcarriage · 8 May 2026

• Quiet reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Nine weeks in a queue for a book about not wanting to be in a room full of people. The open plan office chapter made me forward the whole thing to my manager, who has still not replied.

  Quiet · @libbyoverdrive · 8 May 2026

• Quiet reviewed by @margaretreads

  8/ 108 out of 10

  155.232, and it never stayed put

  Quiet · @margaretreads · 8 May 2026

• This Is Going to Hurt reviewed by @nightshiftnurse

  7/ 107 out of 10

  funny in the way we are funny at four in the morning, which is to say not really. I laughed a lot and then got very angry, mostly because none of it has changed! the footnotes are the best part of it

  This Is Going to Hurt · @nightshiftnurse · 7 May 2026

• Pachinko reviewed by @the_slow_reader

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Six days. For me that is running.

  Pachinko · @the_slow_reader · 7 May 2026