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Small Spaces by Katherine Arden. A middle-grade, Halloween-inspired, horror story. 3/5. This was fun, even sort of sweet, but I suspect you have to be significantly younger than me to be scared by it. I liked the characters and enjoyed the ride but I did miss the depth that Arden demonstrated in her wonderful Winternight Trilogy.
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. Epic fantasy. Maybe this deserves a higher score than 1/5, but I'm not going to find out, having dropped this before the middle of chapter one. I almost dropped it after reading the preface - I'm always wary when the author finds it necessary to explain or apologise for what they've done - but I wanted to see why this author felt it necessary to warn the reader that this would be a "harder journey". Well that became apparent to me very early indeed, so I dropped it, I'm not that short of reading material, but I am that short of patience.
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