I'm a little bit behind on my reading goal for the year so I decided to pick up a couple novellas.

Abyss by Nicholas Binge follows Joe as he begins a new job as an admin assistant at a mysterious company. From no one being in the building to an overly nosy required AI program, Joe quickly realizes that this job isn't quite what he thought it would be. This one was interesting, but it never really pulled me in. I liked Joe and his struggles with getting through life and spending too much time on his phone. The rest of the plot was kind of all over the place, and I could have used more time with weird things happening in the office before things jumped off the deep end. I liked the ending as it showed the results of what Joe did while also giving us a nice moment. 

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S'more of you by Tessa Bailey follows Margot - a camp counselor - as she decides that this will be the summer that she tells her long-time crush Dean - who now runs the camp - that she has feelings for him. I thought this one had a cute premise, but I didn't end up loving it. Margot and Dean have known each other since they were 13 but they only see each other for like 3 weeks max every summer, not leaving much room for them to get to know each other. By the end of this novella, they are both saying that they love each other, and I just felt like there was no way you could truly fall for someone that you barley know. Margot is also very immature; she has spent the entire time she has known him pulling pranks on him because she likes him. 

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The Butler follows Baxter, a butler that is hired to spend the week running a house of wealthy people in Cannes. We quickly learn that almost all of the house guests suck - they are the worst kind of rich people. For a book that I thought would be dealing with the death of one of the guests, it sure took a lot of time to get to the actual death. I understand needing to lay the groundwork for why everyone would want this person dead, but the character does not die until after the halfway mark. I think I would have enjoyed this more if the person died sooner and we got more of Baxter searching for the truth. There was also a plotline involving a pickpocket that I thought could have been left out. 

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