Mini-reviews for 2020 r/Fantasy hard mode bingo

This is the first time I'm participating in r/Fantasy bingo despite being subscribed to this subreddit for about 5 years. The idea is to expand your reading by filling 5-25 squares. Each square has an easy mode and a hard mode with additional restrictions. Since I average more than one book a week, I felt I could easily do one Hard mode card and perhaps do a few more cards later. In the end, I struggled to finish a single HM card.

I also added another self-imposed rule that any author I've already read prior to the start of the bingo cannot be used for this card. That made it tougher to fill the squares. In retrospect, I should've kept this rule but chosen easy mode. I don't plan to do HM next time, but perhaps I'll keep the tradition of picking a self-imposed rule.