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bondolo reviewed The famished road by Ben Okri
bondolo rated The famished road: 5 stars
bondolo reviewed The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Satisfying Fantasy
4 stars
I enjoyed this fantasy and thought it had enough red herrings and surprises to reward. I am somewhat curious about the prior challenges but would think it tedious for this great book to be turned into a series.
bondolo rated The Night Circus: 3 stars
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the …
bondolo reviewed Translation State by Ann Leckie
bondolo rated Translation State: 5 stars
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
bondolo rated Translation State: 5 stars
Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across …
bondolo reviewed Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)
Moment only
3 stars
This book didn’t really work for me. Neither horror nor science fiction. It didn’t work as a thriller either. It needed more development. Some was there for the lead character but meeting the other characters in training would have provided connection and depth that was wanted.
bondolo reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
I may need to read more
4 stars
I enjoyed this novel more than I expected. Dickens writes very impressively, which maybe should not be a surprise but I imagined something more formal and tedious. He writes with a rhythm and some amazing turns of phrases. I am unfamiliar with the speech of the time to understand how much of what seems novel to me is merely the idiom of the time.
bondolo reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
bondolo reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
bondolo reviewed Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #7)
bondolo reviewed Rosewater by Tade Thompson (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
bondolo reviewed Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Founders trilogy series -- 1)
Improbable Growth Arc
2 stars
Main character becomes almost god-like through the narrative but somehow dwelled in obscurity for years before. Some set piece scenes were out of place and others abbreviated.