WWW Wednesday

What have you recently finished reading? I finished up Daryl Gregory’s The Album of Dr Moreau almost in one go, which surprised me — it’s a novella, so I figured it’d be a quick read, but I wasn’t much in the mood for reading, so I wasn’t expecting it to grab me so well. It takes the premise fairly seriously, while also being somewhat playful — inevitable when you’re writing about a boy band made up of human-animal hybrids. I enjoyed the concept, though, and the mystery! I don’t think I’ve read anything by Daryl Gregory before, and now I’m definitely curious (though if I remember rightly none of his books immediately spoke to me, maybe I’m more tempted now). What are you currently reading? Let’s stick to the ones I have in my ‘active’ pile, though I have a lot of other books in various states of suspended animation. In no particular order, we have Suzanne Palmer’s Ode to the Half Broken, which I am enjoying quite a lot. Inevitably there’s something a bit reminiscent of Murderbot at…