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finished reading Witchmark by C. L. Polk

C. L. Polk: Witchmark (Paperback, 2018, Tor)

In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, …

Reading books like this, set in worlds where magic or supernatural forces are normal, always makes me feel like there's some western/christian cultural mythos that is familiar enough to other people to be just background knowledge, and is something I never learned.

In spite of that, I really enjoyed the story.

Rebecca Fraimow: Lady Eve's Last Con (2024, Rebellion)

Ruth Johnson and her sister Jules have been small-time hustlers on the interstellar cruise lines …

Didn't care for this book at all. Not only were none of the characters really likeable, but it's supposed to be a romance and it didn't really seem believable that they liked each other. Besides, the setting never felt plausible either. It's a future society that somehow retains social structures from the last century.