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Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a …
Let's see if I finish this one in time for #SFFBookClub
Let's see if I finish this one in time for #SFFBookClub
A mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a …
The #SFFBookClub selection for December 2023
She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline. In the old days, …
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and …
Very much in the same vein as the first one, but it doesn't quite have the same punch now that the setting has already been introduced and explored
Very much in the same vein as the first one, but it doesn't quite have the same punch now that the setting has already been introduced and explored
Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the …
I didn't know what to expect from a novella about a convent of space nuns wandering the vacuum inside a gigantic sea slug, and that's what I got
I didn't know what to expect from a novella about a convent of space nuns wandering the vacuum inside a gigantic sea slug, and that's what I got
The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. …
An adequate whodunit set in alternate contemporary Lisbon where a minority of people are gifted with telepathic or telekinetic powers.
There were some oddities - for example, the protagonist talks about the ambient temperature in every scene. I was expecting it to become a plot point, but apparently it's just there. The story revolves around two investigators doing their thing, but they're oddly timid - they're perfectly content with people just refusing to talk to them about the investigation, and they act like getting a warrant for some piece of evidence that all their other evidence points at is an impossible obstacle.
It was enjoyable despite these details, and I'll probably read the subsequent entries eventually.
An adequate whodunit set in alternate contemporary Lisbon where a minority of people are gifted with telepathic or telekinetic powers.
There were some oddities - for example, the protagonist talks about the ambient temperature in every scene. I was expecting it to become a plot point, but apparently it's just there. The story revolves around two investigators doing their thing, but they're oddly timid - they're perfectly content with people just refusing to talk to them about the investigation, and they act like getting a warrant for some piece of evidence that all their other evidence points at is an impossible obstacle.
It was enjoyable despite these details, and I'll probably read the subsequent entries eventually.
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza …
I was seven years old the first time my uncle poisoned me...
Outwardly, Jovan …
A great fantasy novel revolving around a civil war in a small country, but focusing mainly on the experiences and interactions of the two main characters. I enjoyed the nuance around the different factions' and characters' motivations, as well as the fact that the protagonists were regular people in particular situations and not Chosen Ones. Apart from being in a different world, the fantasy treatment is very subtle and well-judged. I'm looking forward to finding out what the sequel has in store!
A great fantasy novel revolving around a civil war in a small country, but focusing mainly on the experiences and interactions of the two main characters. I enjoyed the nuance around the different factions' and characters' motivations, as well as the fact that the protagonists were regular people in particular situations and not Chosen Ones. Apart from being in a different world, the fantasy treatment is very subtle and well-judged. I'm looking forward to finding out what the sequel has in store!
Natalie Chan gained her corporate citizenship, but barely survived the battle for Tribulation.
Now …
I nibbled my way through this one in tiny chunks, because it's bleak in the same very plausible way that made me walk away from black mirror.
I enjoyed that it focused on a different character than the first installment, which allowed the narrative to come from a different direction and give a new perspective on events. An intriguing (while bleak) look at transhumanism/posthumanism in a setting of unfettered capitalism.
I nibbled my way through this one in tiny chunks, because it's bleak in the same very plausible way that made me walk away from black mirror.
I enjoyed that it focused on a different character than the first installment, which allowed the narrative to come from a different direction and give a new perspective on events. An intriguing (while bleak) look at transhumanism/posthumanism in a setting of unfettered capitalism.
Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, …
Very novel take on the repercussions of a first contact scenario. It's also a rare instance of a story set in a military environment that doesn't revolve around fighting the war.
Very novel take on the repercussions of a first contact scenario. It's also a rare instance of a story set in a military environment that doesn't revolve around fighting the war.
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in …
This is my third Sarah Gailey book, and every single time I finish one, I think "That woman has lived through some shit, I hope she's ok."
Just Like Home is a book about good and evil and belonging and terror and growing up and death and family, but not in the ways I expected.
This is my third Sarah Gailey book, and every single time I finish one, I think "That woman has lived through some shit, I hope she's ok."
Just Like Home is a book about good and evil and belonging and terror and growing up and death and family, but not in the ways I expected.
Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight …
A satisfying continuation of the series, but whereas Ninth House was gritty, dark, contemporary supernatural fantasy, Hell Bent is verging into YA supernatural. Which is fine, but the gritty darkness was what I liked most about Ninth House.
Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, …
Content warning plot arc metaspoilers maybe? also for Nona the Ninth
This one took me on a very Nona the Ninth-like journey, from "I am following the plot and know what is going on" to "I am no longer following the plot, what the hell is going on" to "Wow, I did not see that coming"
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she …
This is the best/worst book to have just gotten into when a bout of insomnia strikes, so you can lie reading in a dark, silent house while the level of creepiness steadily builds, and something outside makes a tok-tok-tok noise