met expectations:

• poppy war
• hunger games / ballad
• cruel prince - I have gone back and forth on these books over the years, but ultimately, I think of them constantly, I have a harder time calling them my favourite purely because I’m quite sensitive to the main/pov character experiencing public humiliation (maybe it’s the bullying trauma), but these were all they were promised to be
• katabasis
• babel
• six of crows
• percy jackson

exceeded expectations:

• piranesi - went into this book blind, and that’s the best thing you can do, to be honest, I’m not gonna tell you anything about it
• murderbot - I saw that the first book was only 113 pages… and I decided to read it at that moment because I was behind on my reading goal and I was getting stressed
• the secret history
• project hail mary
• sunrise

didn’t meet expectations

• song of achiles
• kim jiyoung
• powerless
• acotar
• picture of dorian gray