What have I been reading in 2019?

Insofar as I made new years resolutions, one of mine was to make time for reading – at least half an hour, five days a week. Back when I worked crappy jobs in the inner suburbs, I used to spend a lot of time reading while I commuted, and thus I read something like 125 books in two and a half years. But then I started Masters, and basically fell out of the habit. It's something I missed doing, so I decided to make time for it.

So far this year I've been working through a bunch of self-published books that I bought towards the end of last year, as well as a couple of trad-pubbed fantasy ones (V.E. Schwab and China Miéville). I thought I'd write some quick thoughts on each below a cut!

( Herein lies a mix of fantasy, science fiction and one crappy mainstream book. No spoilers! )