Reading notes: 'Impossible Creatures'
Impossible Creatures is now my favorite fantasy book and my favorite young-adult book. The world-building, the characters, the sentence-by-sentence prose, and the plot are all great. The art is great. The font is great. It's intelligent, hilarious, and accessible to young people. It's all just an absolute delight.
This is extremely not my genre. I don't really get science fiction or fantasy. So, for example, I read The Three-Body Problem, liked it fine, and was never tempted to pick up the next book in the series. Back in 2000, I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, liked it fine, and have never read any of the sequels. (One big exception: I did read all of The Chronicles of Narnia recently, and I loved it.)
I now understand much more vividly why people line up at midnight to buy new releases in their favorite series. I'm slotting this in at #25 on my top 100, but it could easily move up or down as I live with it.