A lifelong bookworm who has never made it to Goodreads. Sci-fi, fantasy mostly. Kindle. The City of a hundred spires.
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A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by …
Readable and forgettable. I should have heeded the Young Adult tag and passed on it, perhaps.
An easy read, but a poor man's First Law story.
Neutron stars, gamma rays, curvature, multiverse, Euler, Planck, six-dimensional space and the gang are at it again! This time in a story which, despite not being exactly original, is challenging and captivating. Had to do a ton of googling while reading, physics is not my cup of tea, and have enjoyed myself. Cannot but recommend.
Station Eleven is a 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel, her fourth. It takes …
A surprisingly "civil" story about believable characters trying to eke it out in the aftermath of a grand fall.
Made me think of Covid and The Last of us.
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun
In …
A solid page turner.
A solid "I grew up at my father's estate surrounded by tutors and yet, chose to ditch the privilege and mingle with commoners in pursuit of galactic scale something while being a good person" kind of book.
It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity …
The Dune vibes are strong with this one, and it is a solid three-star book. Read, put aside and never revisit. A pity, though, as the world and its dynamics and inhabitants could have been used to carve a better story.
The Chronoliths is a 2001 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It …
An average BDO book, imho.
"The Source" chronicles the history of the middle east from early geologic time to the …
The sheer time scope of the narrative is epic. Stories related to a patch of land cover almost 12.000 years. The past protagonists are fairly believable, while the "real time" characters of the tell diggers are not credible at all. They are just too stereotypical, but the narrative compensates for it. I enjoyed the Crusader bit the most. Defo worth a read if history is your thing.
I have spent almost the same amount of time googling for stuff I came across in the book as reading it. I thought of Jeremiah by Franz Werfel, Exodus by Leon Uris and some of the characters from I.B.Singer's novellas.
981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions …
This is not the pinnacle of modern literature, but man, it is so readable! The author manages to keep superb pacing with dialogue-driven narration through the eyes of two strong female characters. They face both pagan and Christian prejudice in late 10th century Ireland, a world where nothing can be taken for granted. Especially if one is a woman and magically gifted.
I have learned a few things about pre-conquest Ireland.
