finished my locked tomb reread/(re)listen. Very good. Feel like I got a really solid grasp of everything that happened in Nona, excited for Alecto
read another light novel, on the principle that I'd read the first one and thought it was okay, and because kobo told me vol 3 was out and I thought it might be nice to have two volumes in a row to read. As is often the case, the second volume was much worse, RIP. Did not continue to the third
Read Illuminations, by T Kingfisher. It was good! Not great, which I think some of her stuff is, but solid. This one was aimed at kids so it didn't have as much meat as her other more gnarly stuff (she even manages to write gnarly romances, which I think is very fun). Would certainly recommend for children of an appropriate age (anywhere from 8 to 12 depending on the child).
And then I started the Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso. It's the first in a new trilogy set in the same world as her previous one but (if I'm following correctly) about 150 years later. I really liked that OG trilogy, but hadn't super registered that there was a new one out until I saw a tweet about it cross my timeline. Very happy to have all three books waiting for me though, because they're the kind of fast reads where you don't want to wait to know what happens. And the main character of this one, Ryx, is a delightful touch-starved bisexual, so she's very Relatable. The narrative at the moment very much has the feeling of someone setting up a lot of pins to be knocked over, but that's forgivable at the start of a trilogy. Anyway, excited to keep going and pleased to have found something I can sink into.