It's so hard to put into words my reaction to this book and the culmination of this mindbending fantasy trilogy about hacking the nature of reality. In many ways it's a bleak, kinda apocalyptic book—but also filled with a certain sense of optimism that empathy and humanity (whatever that means) can see a way to break cycles of oppression.
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Smoak rated Eyes of the Void: 5 stars
Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky
After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Yet humanity’s fragile peace is brief. For, forty years later, the galaxy’s greatest …
Smoak rated Never Say You Can't Survive: 4 stars
Smoak reviewed Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
Smoak reviewed Thorn by Intisar Khanani
Smoak rated The Revolution Business: 3 stars
Smoak rated Merchants' War: 3 stars
Smoak rated The Stardust Thief: 5 stars
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, The Stardust Thief weaves the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, …
Smoak rated The clan corporate: 2 stars
Smoak rated The Hidden Family: 3 stars
Smoak rated The Family Trade: 3 stars
The Family Trade by Charles Stross
A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series …
Smoak reviewed Circe by Madeline Miller
Smoak rated Across the Green Grass Fields: 3 stars
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green …
Smoak reviewed The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
Review of 'The Past Is Red' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
A fascinating novella following scenes in the life of Tetley, a delightfully unreliable narrator who is "a kind of post-apocalyptic Candide, always seeing the disaster of her existence as the best of all possible worlds." including an "I hope" speech on par with American Gods' "I believe"
Smoak reviewed Memory Librarian by Eve L. Ewing
Review of 'Memory Librarian' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Overall a solid collection of interrelated novelettes/novellas
"The Memory Librarian" 4/5
"Nevermind" 5/5
"Timebox" 4/5
"Save Changes" 4.5/5
"Timebox Altar(ed)" 2/5