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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.
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
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.
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …
Content warning Spoilers but I don't recommend you read it anyway
This book could have had some good ideas and turned them into something interesting to read. Instead it mashed together a bunch of concepts, not fully fleshed out, and produced some drivel. It's full of tortured metaphors (even in the title Alien "Clay", except there's nothing special about the soil or earth of this planet - it's the ecology and the lifeforms which are talked about). The first third of the book is brutality (it's a convict prison planet), the second third is horror (OMG the weird way that life happens on this planet - genuinely a bit squickful), and then the last third is a hurried, unearned conclusion where humans start to coexist with the life on the planet. It's written in an engaging manner so I can imagine people would be drawn in by it, but the more I read, the more I grew to hate it. I don't know how this got nominated for a Hugo and I'm annoyed that this author has two nominations and I have to read another book by him. Don't read this book.
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …
I super enjoyed this one. Notionally a time travel story, but that's not really what it's about. Unless one of the other Hugo novel nominations is a surprise banger, this will probably get my top vote.
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
This was good and I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure it needed to be novel-length. It probably could have conveyed the same story in a shorter-length medium.
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
Ok, Hugos reading for two months now. Let's goooo!
THE EPIC FINALE TO THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING FALLEN GODS TRILOGYIn the …
Look this is the third book in the series. Broadly it's pretty good, but for a series about gods, it has two fire gods (different types) and their names both start with H and I keep getting them mixed up.
Enjoyable as this whole series has been, but genuinely a bit weird to be reading it at the same time as watch S4 of For All Mankind.
New Lady Astronaut book, yeah!
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic …
Took me a bit to get into this but I quite enjoyed it once I did.
A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century …
Eh, I didn't really enjoy this. It's a sort of retelling of Hamlet but set in the future in a biochemistry lab.
A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century …
The last book I started is good but feels too much like a work book so starting something else for downtime reading.
'Tis done.
The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center …
Finished! A blog post will be forthcoming about the whole cycle.