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Since I was last here...
Extremes and Consequences, books 2 and 3 of The Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. These are good sci-fi detective stories set on the Moon and telling the interconnected tales of Miles Flint and Noelle DeRicci. Individually these are a comfortable 4/5 for me; both have a slow first half but end up being very good stories. However, when read together they are a bit too much like déjà vu as you go from book to book, so I'll give the series a break for a while.
Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge, the first of the "Dowser" series. This was a freebie. I liked the title and the idea of zombie werewolves seemed sort of intriguing. It turns out to be a YA romance ... I'd say, VYA (Very Young Adult), it felt quite clumsy to me. 2/5 and just barely that, the main plus being that it was such an easy skim read that I bothered to finish it. It didn't help that, while the ebook appeared to be well produced, my Kobo cut off the endings of many scenes (I quickly gave up trying to read them, they weren't needed to follow the story). I think the problems were probably due strange CSS (negative margins! and perhaps the use of rem unit) but there are also NCX problems according to Sigil. Quite likely the custom font and complexity of the CSS were responsible for the slow loading at each chapter change.
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