Some bits were quite exciting, but the sexism bothered me a lot. So did the absence of personal computers, the internet and mobile phones, though I guess it isn't fair to expect that from a book written in the early 1960's.
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Ilirwen rated Hurting Distance: 4 stars
Ilirwen rated Shadowheart: 3 stars
Shadowheart by Tad Williams (Shadowmarch -- v. [4])
Something is awakening underneath Southmarch Castle, something powerful and terrible that the world has not seen for thousands of years. …
Ilirwen rated L'honneur de Sartine: 3 stars
Ilirwen rated Dark matter: 4 stars
S. J. Bolton: Sacrifice (2008, St. Martin's Minotaur)
Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton
Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the …
Ilirwen rated Code Name Verity: 4 stars
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called "a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel" in The New …
Ilirwen rated The Scarlet Pimpernel: 4 stars
Ilirwen rated Mandarin Gate: 5 stars
Ilirwen rated The bell at Sealey Head: 5 stars
Patricia A. McKillip: The bell at Sealey Head (2008, Ace Books)
The bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
Sealey Head is a small town on the edge of the ocean, a sleepy place where everyone hears the ringing …
Ilirwen rated Little Face: 4 stars
Ilirwen rated Housewife with a Half-Life: 4 stars
Ilirwen reviewed A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
A Fall of Moondust is a hard science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. …
