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Crowbones by Anne Bishop
Read April 2022 Recommended for fans. Very ardent ones. ★ ★ And so continues my love-hate relationship with Anne Bishop’s The Others series. Although, to be honest, it’s really more of a guilty pleasure-outright disgust hookup, but that’s always more … Continue reading
Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino
Read March 2022 Recommended for fans. Very ardent ones. ★ ★ I loved Higashino’s Salvation of a Saint and The Devotion of Suspect X. Malice and A Midsummer’s Equation were enjoyable, but not nearly as remarkable. This, though: this was … Continue reading
Seven Down by David Whitton
Read February 2022 Recommended for fans of Less Than Zero Not for me A character study composed of unhappy, unlikable sleeper agents, formatted as a debriefing after an equally disastrous operation. The debriefing format means it’s told retrospectively, first person, … Continue reading
Provenance by Ann Leckie
Read December, 2021 Recommended for people who don’t want to commit to the trilogy ★ ★ 1/2 Note to self: Probably you should write a review right after you finish reading, no matter how uninspired you may find … Continue reading
Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
Read March 2021 Recommended for ★ 1/2 I stalled. Why? Because it contains one trope I hate,¹ a character type I dislike,² and a plot choice I dislike³ with what is looking to be a fairly predictable story that’s lingering in the … Continue reading
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Read March 2021 Recommended for sincere, devoted Peter Watts fans ★ 1/2 If it wasn’t for my co-readers of Blindsight encouraging ourselves onward, this would have been a solid DNF. While Blindsight explored what individuality and personality, Echopraxia mostly just … Continue reading
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker
Read February 2021 Recommended for engineers and military strategists ★ ★ A solid meh on my enjoyment scale. Historical military fiction with a snarky first person narrator. Engineers will likely love this ode to their profession and … Continue reading
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Read December 2020 Recommended for fans of Chambers ★ ★ 1/2 A travelogue with frankly underdeveloped characters and a bonkers ending–and I don’t mean in the Gideon the Ninth kind of way. No, I mean in the Tana … Continue reading
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Read October 2020 Recommended for those who enjoy a serious angst vampy story I think this is a pass for me. Domingo is a seventeen year-old who lives on the streets, getting by by being invisible and … Continue reading
Incursion: Vampire Apocalypse, aka ‘Counteraction’ by M.D. Massey
Read May 2019 Recommended for fans of apocalypse camp ★ ★ You know when you are kind of bored and channel-flipping, and you land on SCYFI channel or whatever it is these days, and you are watching people … Continue reading
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