Kat’s 2025 Booklist

Fiction

1. The Note, by Alafair Burke: An inauspicious beginning to my 2025 reading, The Note took me longer than I would have liked it consume it, and was just OK. The author excels at character development, but I had a very hard time getting into this book. I liked it better toward the end, but it just didn’t engage me earlier. The note referred to in the title doesn’t seem especially pivotal to the story to me, but I’ve noticed all the author’s books are titled in this format: The [Noun]. There’s a good possibility my ambivalence about this books stems from the annoying, sing-song delivery by the audio narrator. (To anyone new to my reading list, I consume virtually 100 percent of my reading in audio form).