I’m not sure I’ve read anything that wacky since Matt Ruff’s earlier works but she pulled it off so well. Also, I’m really missing LA’s restaurants.
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Chris Adams reviewed Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Chris Adams rated Trailer park fae: 3 stars
Trailer park fae by Lilith Saintcrow (Gallow and ragged -- book one)
"Jeremy Gallow is just another construction worker, and that's the way he likes it. He's left his past behind, but …
Chris Adams reviewed The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Review of 'The Saint of Bright Doors' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I’m reminded of why I don’t like magical realism: there’s a lot of beautiful prose describing a world which ultimately doesn’t matter because everything is just a stream of scenes with no real rules or meaning.
Chris Adams rated Sabriel: 4 stars
Chris Adams rated Darwin Comes to Town: 4 stars
Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen
With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much …
Chris Adams rated Exit Strategy: 4 stars
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes …
Chris Adams rated The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: 5 stars
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, …
Chris Adams rated Amberlough: 4 stars
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
Le Carré meets Cabaret in this debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during …
Chris Adams rated Velvet Was the Night: 5 stars
Chris Adams rated Winter tide: 4 stars
Winter tide by Ruthanna Emrys
"Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far …
Chris Adams rated Red Scholar's Wake: 4 stars
Chris Adams rated She Who Became the Sun: 4 stars
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor.
To possess the Mandate …
Chris Adams rated On a red station, drifting: 3 stars
On a red station, drifting by Aliette de Bodard
For generations Prsoper Station has thrived under the guidence of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the stations's …
Chris Adams rated Girl and the Moon: 2 stars
Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence (Book of the Ice, #3)
In the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series, a young outcast will fight against staggering odds to …