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Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Read January 2023 Recommended for fans of Pratchett, MMOG ★ ★ ★ 1/2 It all depends on your definition of ‘cosy,’ I suppose. I’ve been wrapping up George Saunders’ A Swim In a Pond In the Rain, in which … Continue reading
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews
Read January 2023 Recommended for Andrews fans ★ ★ ★ ★ Checked email at 10 pm, discovered preorder receipt, downloaded book and finished by 1 a.m. Fun; a return to good, old-fashioned Andrews fun. Kate and Curran … Continue reading
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown
Read December 2022 Recommended for fans of colony ships ★ ★ ★ An enjoyable, recommended entry for my women-in-space files. Though loosely described as horror, I found–thankfully–it to be more about suspense. It’s a quick little novella … Continue reading
2022 In Review
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness… I’m just kidding; there’s no past tense. It’s 2023–as always, my retrospective is done full review-mirror–and … Continue reading
The Catch Me If You Can by Jessica Nabongo. But I’d rather not.
Read November 2022 Recommended for travel fans ★ ★ 1/2 Well, this is awkward. The trouble with analyzing the autobiographical is that one is also, to some extent, analyzing the person. And that just seems rude, right? Thinking of … Continue reading
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Read January 2023 Recommended for ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 All you need to understand is that this was published March 2021, which means it was written end of 2020. Yes, that 2020. You know, the one … Continue reading
The Long Game by K. J. Parker
Read December 2022 Recommended for fans unreliable narrators ★ ★ Sadly, a miss. A first person, unnamed and quite likely unreliable narrator has to finesse a situation with demon and a traveler from a possibly mythical land. … Continue reading
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Read December 2022 Recommended for fans of light horror ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I am a horror pansy. Not my genre. But I am a sucker for chicks-in-space, and after I read more than a few reviews … Continue reading
Rules of Redemption by T.A. White
Read February 2022 Recommended for fans of Ilona Andrews ★ ★ 1/2 Short version: what seems like a space-faring buddy flick turns into a court-intrigue romance novel with a deathly Mary Sue. It feels a great deal like … Continue reading
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