My reading goal was 30 books for 2026, and I have surpassed it as of August 13th! I use the app "Margins" to track the books I have read and wish to read but here I plan to write short reviews to help myself remember the book and to share with whoever crosses paths with my page.

Finished on 8/17/26 this is the authors second book and I found it about as enjoyable as the first. If she comes out with a third book, I will most likely pick it up and give it a go. It’s a “cozy fantasy” which is fun to take a breather with occasionally, from the other more seriously minded books. Easy read though I liked the characters in her first book The Teller of Small Fortunes better.

Finished on 8/13/26 this book was part of Jenna Bush Hager’s book club so that should tell you the style of writing and for what demographic the book is written for. Regardless of the style being out of my ordinary it was well written and I enjoyed it well enough. I found the content to be unsettling because of how realistic I find the scenario of a company taking dreams along with a myriad of other surveillance data points and compiling them creating a credit-score-esque “risk score” of the likelihood of a person committing future crime. I find it so realistic that frankly I can’t be bothered to muster up the fear this type of scenario demands because the current hellscape we live in is so exhausting.