Second paragraph of third chapter:

Fairly high on the list, however, was: Why breakfast?

Third in Marske’s The Last Binding trilogy. I was not totally convinced by the first of this series, but liked the second much more. I’m afraid that the third lost me not quite half way through, with the protagonists of the previous two books bouncing off each other and around various Victorian (or was it Edwardian?) stately homes. I wasn’t interested enough in the characters or convinced enough by the details of the settings. So I put it down. You can get A Power Unbound here.

This was my top unread book acquired in 2024 (as part of the Hugo packet). Next on that pile is Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian.