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 alrea...