Dr Ms Kat finished reading Australia's Agricultural Identity by Joshua Gilbert
I super enjoyed this and would recommend everyone read it (seriously). Josh is an engaging writer and tells a really important and well-considered story.
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Dr Ms Kat finished reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
Eh, it was fine. I think I was expecting more given the hype.
Dr Ms Kat commented on Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
Look, I admit to being concerned that the author doesn't know what "brackish" means.
Dr Ms Kat started reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
This has been on my TBR pile forever. Now it's Hugo nominated for series so I'm finally gonna read it.
Dr Ms Kat started reading What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
The follow-up to T. Kingfisher’s bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead .
Retired soldier …
Please let this one not be too depressing
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
Moscow …
Oof.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …
Engaging, intruiging horrifying. It'd be hopeful if its worldbuilding wasn't so bleak.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
I struggled to connect with this story. Disappointing, because I normally really like the author's writing.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
A world-weary woman races against the clock to save two children from an enchanting but …
This book gave me anxiety the whole time I was reading it. The opposite of a cosy read.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to an aging lord …
A book where you read the acknowledgements at the end and go "Ohhhhh".
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, …
Content warning Spoilers
Ok this one was better than Alien Clay. But Tchaikovsky does seem to have a third-act-goes-off-the-rails problem. Surely it can't be that hard to set up the big payoffs and conclusions a bit earlier, rather than suddenly coming in with King Robot and Robot God in the last 3rd. Literally a deus ex machina.
Dr Ms Kat started reading Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, …
Dear lord, I hope this is better than the other Adrian Tchaikovsky book I read.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a …
This was ok. It's essentially a murder mystery, set in a fantasy (not high fantasy) world. I was faintly irritated by the character who solves the mystery, suddenly describing sequences of events in an unearned way, but maybe that's just a common trope of the murder mystery genre.
Dr Ms Kat started reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a …
I'm definitely trying to avoid that second Adrian Tchaikovsky book now
Dr Ms Kat finished reading A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors …
Ah, this was a lovely palate cleanser after the last awful book.