Read: Tidecaller (Scout Cross, Alex Raizman): LitRPG, but entirely in-world, so the game elements don’t add much and arguably make the main character’s sacrifice less sacrificial. Short.

Read: Smoke & Ashes (Alexis Hall): Fourth in the series about a half-faery private eye in London. After spending a year drunk after foiling the last plot against reality, she now has to sober up and deal with all the symbolic magical murder chickens coming home to roost on the dead bodies of her new squeeze’s family.

NaNoWriMo Words: 11449 + 1272 = 12721.