It didn't seem that this book was written with as much attention or focus as the other volumes in the series. I did enjoy it, but was expecting better.
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bondolo finished reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of …
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of …
bondolo reviewed Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #7)
bondolo finished reading Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #7)
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #7)
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns …
bondolo reviewed Rosewater by Tade Thompson (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
bondolo finished reading Rosewater by Tade Thompson (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
Rosewater by Tade Thompson (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents …
bondolo reviewed Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Founders trilogy series -- 1)
Improbable Growth Arc
2 stars
Main character becomes almost god-like through the narrative but somehow dwelled in obscurity for years before. Some set piece scenes were out of place and others abbreviated.
bondolo finished reading Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Founders trilogy series -- 1)
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Founders trilogy series -- 1)
A thief in a city controlled by industrialized magic joins forces with a rare honest police officer to stop an …
bondolo reviewed The Magus by John Fowles
bondolo finished reading The Magus by John Fowles
The Magus by John Fowles, John Fowles, John Fowles
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school …
bondolo started reading The Magus by John Fowles
The Magus by John Fowles, John Fowles, John Fowles
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school …
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bondolo finished reading A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
bondolo reviewed A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Lost interest to be honest
3 stars
By the third episode I was getting miffed and the ending was disappointing. A more continuous narrative with fuller world-building and depth to the character development would have helped I think. Everything felt like a sketch with only one section completed.