2023 Book Bingo: 6 Books!

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Yes, already. It's been a long time since I had a book eat my entire brain as completely as the one I just finished (and I'm only 50 pages shy of being done with the second book, too. Fortunately it's only two books long or I don't even know when I'd come up for air).


Title: Little Mushroom
Author: Shisi
Genre: sci-fi, dystopia, danmei
Back cover summary:

In the year 2020, Earth's magnetic poles disappeared and humankind was nearly wiped out by cosmic radiation. Within the span of a hundred years, living creatures began to mutate and devour each other while the remaining humans, numbering in the tens of thousands, struggled bitterly in their man-made bases.

In the Abyss, home to the mutated xenogenics, there lived a sentient little mushroom. Because it had been nourished by the blood and flesh of the deceased human An Ze, not only did it take on a similar-looking human form, but a similar name as well: An Zhe.

An Zhe is determined to go to the human base to search for his spore, which had been harvested by humans. Once there, however, he faces the omnipresent risk of discovery and certain death as he tries to keep his non-human nature hidden from the Judges, whose responsibility is to inspect for and eliminate xenogenics like himself. And of all the Judges, Colonel Lu Feng is the most perceptive and merciless—as soon as he determines that someone is a xenogenic, he will execute that person on the spot.

But An Zhe's mutation goes undetected by Lu Feng's eyes, and so a tale of humans and xenogenics unfolds...

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This book was so good. The second book was/is so good (I've finished the main story and only have a few extras left to read). I'm going insane over how much it hit me. Gah.

Anyway, I bought Vol. 1 almost a year ago, and didn't read it because I was waiting oh-so-patiently for volume 2 to come out, which it finally did in December (or maybe January? idk I pre-ordered it and it arrived about a month ago), so it's definitely been on my TBR, for about a year, so that's the box I put it in. I'll probably put vol. 2 in for "author I've never read before." It fits umpteen other of these squares, but those ones will probably be easier to fill considering what else is on my TBR, so.

I can't believe I read an entire 400 page book in like 3 days. I haven't done that since my first kid was born and I had two months of nursing and no work and no sleep and nothing to do but mainline books. Zero regrets.

(btw in case anyone was wondering, this is an account for a business, Duck Prints Press, but I'm unforth and I do all the blogging here. I don't update my personal account any more, which is port of my ancient LJ account made in 2012 when LJ got bought by Russians; I transferred to here and deleted the original).