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I didn't know these were actually two novellas in the same universe (with a cross-over in the epilogues), which would have been great... except I liked the first one more than the second one. (Note: the "not knowing" mostly comes from "new Mihalik = auto-buy", because it's actually clear in the summary :D ) Still, it was a fun read, and managed to get my head out of gesticulates wildly things last night - not bad!

It was actually amazing. I'm incredibly impressed by her ability to make me see images of contexts I do not know (something I'm not typically very good at). I was a bit afraid, at the beginning, of getting lost in proper names, but I finally got the gist of it (it may or may not have me search for a map of Gethen, which helped a lot.)

I must admit I would have loved a HEA. It was fairly obvious from a few chapters before that it was probably not going to happen, and that ending got me frantically turn pages with a "no, no, nooooo" in my head, and it probably delivered a more emotional/memorable ending this way... but I would have loved a HEA.

Entertaining writing, but A Lot of these had more to do with computer data representation rather than what I'd expect in a book with the subtitle "A Comedy of Maths Errors." Probably I'm also simply not part of the audience of that book, because I knew quite a lot of these stories already!

Nothing mindblowing, but a pleasant-enough read.

Gaaah, this is a hard one to review, and I'm probably rounding up. I mostly liked it, but I don't remember getting that amount of "tell me you're not going there :heartbreak: oh no you are definitely going there :plot twist: YOU'RE NOT GOING THERE :hurray:!" in a single book. Which was, you know, an interesting mix of nice and infuriating :D

Excellent technical content - I learnt a ton of things, which actually make a difference in how I approach some of my cooking, on all topics of the book.
But the tone can be grating at times - I'm absolutely fine with the nerd refs, but some of the remarks kind of read as "wives, amirite? :wink wink nudge nudge", which gets old very fast.
I could also have done with a systematic conversion to Celsius for temperatures, but at least there's a easy-to-refer table at the end of the book on the inner cover :)

Amazing world-building, interesting world evolution, but I couldn't manage to really care about the characters :/