Reviews and Comments

this is a delightful collection of lupin vignettes; really glad i started reading it. it's exactly the kind of light late night lit i was needing

starting this for a book club i proposed over in the scuttleverse :)

selectively picking my way through this :)

i love me short stories, but this one was cramping my style, for some reason. first one was interesting and had a nice melancholy vibe, but the farther i was from that first story the more my interest lessened; c'est la vie!

really great philosophical exploration of what it means to belong to the community of life on this planet, de-emphasizing humans über alles

nice novel format, as well: one part lecture, one part conversations, and one part plot developments

well this was unexpectedly bleak!

Wide-spanning and imaginative. If you're feeling sceptic in the beginning, give it until at least the second set of characters are introduced proper—I feel that's when the book was coming into its stride.

Consistently entertaining and engaging, I never felt like I was slogging through a chapter to reach the end. At times, a bit too many pop-cultural references, but within acceptable bounds given the YA bent of the novel.

I'd say this is recommended if you're a fan of other Tchaikovsky novels :)

started reading this last night; still teetering on the edge of choosing a new book due to stylistic issues (i reaaaalllyyy dislike the second person style that goes "Well, that's what she thought at the time—if only she knew what was to come"

like come onnn there are better ways to build suspense than constantly force the reader away from the moment that's taking place & forcing foreshadowing every other paragraph

calms down i'll continue for another bit though, it seemed like i reached the climax wrt the foreshadowing bits before going to bed

received a physical copy of low-tech magazine from a friend, and now i find myself actually get around to finishing reading articles! more websites-as-books pls

solid space opera that improves upon the world-building set out by the first book.

slightly messy reading experience, but might have just been my edition; perspectives would suddenly change from one character to a completely different one, in another part of the world without any type of signifier (e.g ***, or new chapter heading, although there were the latter at times)

a relatively quick read for something so dense & entertaining throughout. nothing revolutionary but it doesn't need to be

Decent read! Unexpectedly enjoyed having previously read one of the author's reference books (if you have gotten into Children of Ruin you might be able to guess which topic it concerns :) Less bombastic storyline than Children of Time, a larger focus on cognition in general

better than #2, not as good as #1—enjoyable all the way through and thouroughly hard to put down :)