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Read SALTCROP by Yume Kitasei if you love novels about climate catastrophe, stories about sisters, mysteries & missing persons, travel narratives & boats, mega-corporations being awful, planting seeds & hoping they'll grow something new, blights & illnesses, going to the ends of the earth & beans.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250380968/saltcrop/

The book cover of SALTCROP by Yume Kitasei

KA reviews "Forecast" by Aaron Ryan:

"I was eager to read Forecast because of this intriguing premise: what if an everyday person was granted the knowledge about the tragedy in advance, and the power to stop it?... Forecast brings the world of the early 2000s back to life, creating a vivid and compelling “what if” timeline of that dark day of American history. 5 stars."

https://www.limfic.com/2026/01/22/review-forecast-aaron-ryan/

#911 @bookstodon

I love that people do on Fedi, but I always wonder what their selection process is for deciding what book ends up on their

It's ok to review books on the Amazon bestseller list or on the NYT list, but those sorts of lists tend to boost the traditional publishers at the cost of the

So if you review books, please cast your net out a bit further, and sample some of the indie books

NEW CHAPTER ALERT! In today's installment of volume V, SODA AND THE SPAZMOTRONIC SLUGHUNT, our hapless heroes Poo-Go, Dr. Slugg, Vogelkot, and Tiny Tirdly ride the Zedarcoaster to a town populated by jarred kaiju fetuses! Read free: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/107544/sifillis-v-soda-and-the-spazmotronic-slughunt

Before tomorrow's Kindle release, a reminder that the paperback edition of "The Nemesis Legacy" is available at various places in addition to Amazon. For example:

Books-A-Million
https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Nemesis-Legacy/Michael-Shotter/9798294589875
Bookshop
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-nemesis-legacy-michael-shotter/f885caebf7c1c3dc?aid=110466&ean=9798294589875&listref=the-nod-wells-timelines&next=t
Waterstones
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-nemesis-legacy/michael-shotter/9798294589875

If a place you'd like to buy from doesn't have it, just ask. Most booksellers will happily stock it for you.

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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-conspiracists-noelle-cook/1147552125?ean=9798889832423

@bookstodon

Poor bloke. No matter what the final book is like, he's going to disappoint people when it's compared with their imaginary perfect masterpiece.

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/the-long-wait-has-ruined-george-r-r-martin-s-the-winds-of-winter-20260116-p5num2.html

A 5-star review of Michael Shotter's book "The Nemesis Legacy" from Kelsey's Reading Realm

Had to DNF "Before The Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

Holy smokes this book is dull. Just overly repetitive and does anything to avoid getting to the point. This wouldn't be so bad if each chapter was about 50 pages long, but each page in each chapter reads like a JRR Tolkein novel.

I got up to 92 pages before giving up the towel, reading ahead, finding the big revel, and then going "urgh, I guess?"

It's difficult to get any reviews. Editorial reviews are impossible. Kirkus Reviews is the editorial reviewer I'd been inclined to pay for, and I did so for The Fifth Seduction, but they've become terrible. Is it worth being able to pull a few positive quotes from a Kirkus Reviews review? This one doesn't even have correct grammar. They pay their reviewers almost nothing and charge independent authors hundreds. At least require a reviewer to invest in Grammarly.

Grumbling about Kirkus Reviews, one of the most easily accessible companies for editorial reviews.