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Alice Michelle Stevens-Dryer

alicemichelle@bookwyrm.social

Joined 4 months, 1 week ago

Southern trans woman and avid reader of medieval fantasy novels. Please do not judge me for the amount of Sonic the Hedgehog comics I have and will consume. Follow me on Mastodon

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36% complete! Alice Michelle Stevens-Dryer has read 18 of 50 books.

Joseph Cox: Dark Wire (Hardcover, 2024, PublicAffairs) 5 stars

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made …

I never would have imagined

4 stars

I first heard this story on the Search Engine podcast and had to read the book for myself. Joseph Cox chronicles in "Dark Wire" the story of how the FBI secretly ran a phone company for criminals, resulting in a record number of arrests of drug criminals and organized crime. I've recently fallen down a rabbit hole with personal cyber security and privacy, so it was fascinating to hear how something as trustworthy as an encrypted phone could be used to spy on criminals. It makes you think!

stopped reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)

Patrick Rothfuss: The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2014, DAW) 4 stars

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a …

I loved Name of the Wind and Wise Man’s Fear with all my heart and consider them some of my favorite fantasy novels, but this just isn’t Rothfuss’ best work. His prose is still clear and artful but Auri’s narration is hard to follow. I’ll probably give this another shot someday when I’m in the right frame of mind for it.

Ian Flynn, Evan Stanley: Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper (GraphicNovel, 2020, IDW Publishing) 5 stars

Join two of the most popular new characters from Sonic's world in this classic odd-couple …

Sonic side characters getting some well-deserved page count

5 stars

I was very surprised by this miniseries. I knew I was going to love Tangle and Whisper in it because they're the best characters in IDW Sonic, but I didn't expect to feel genuine sadness for Whisper's backstory or fear for their lives in this fight. I'm definitely used to the child-friendly version of Sonic we're getting more the past decade and didn't expect to see a shape-shifter with a knife literally trying to murder our main characters.