Hello! I’m Citro and you can mostly find me on Fedi over at @citro@blorbo.social! I like sci-fi and fantasy and read a lot of manga too. Also a bunch of non-fiction reference books.
Most of my reviews won’t have rating as I’m deathly allergic to quantifying my enjoyment of any piece of media with a star rating: I might write down some things that personally tugged at me one way or the other in my comments or reviews (and that is when I do leave reviews) but they're mostly for the benefit of future me looking back to that moment.
Things either work for me or they don’t, just like they either work for you or they don’t. It's either no rating, or 5 stars for the books I genuinely hold dearest to my heart, and my five star rating will likely only mean something to you if we have similar tastes/brain worms anyway.
I also reread Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu stories with near religious fervor at least once a year so there’s that too.
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Get me going to the beach for long enough and I’ll just (re)read Storm Constantine eventually - reading this in preparation for the Grimoire Dehara but also experimenting with reading this right after The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit for a more chronological experience of the Mythos - So far (in chapter 5, there will be timeskips in the future and I might start Bewitchments then.) it’s been a very interesting perspective.
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is a short story set just after Exit Strategy. Home …
Mandatory reading alongside Exit Strategy, it’s good to get some insight on how Perservation works straight from Mensah’s own POV
Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever …
Content warning Spoilers for one of the final chapters
We finally get to reunite with the original crew in this one!! The memory rebuild chapter was the highlight of the book for me, pair with Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory for the best experience as the insight into Perservation really helps.
The Grigori are an ancient race; powerful people who possess abilities and powers humans do …
Wanna learn more about Nephilim and if I can do it while also reading more of Storm's words that's two birds in one stone! There's also an extensive bibliography in these books so I'm excited. :3c
The city of Parole is burning. Like Venice slips into the sea, Parole crumbles into …
I got the book for the first time way back when it was first published and I loved it, Chameleon Moon is one of those books that feel like a warm hug, a blanket and hot chocolate, and - as biased as I might be as a backer of the kickstarter - I finally got to start listening to the audiobook and Roanna and Kyle did such a great job!!
The audiobook is such a powerful way to experience the book! I may have wibbled a little from Radio Angel’s first appearance and then Regan’s narration, and the music is so wonderful!! I’m so happy to have seen it come to life!! 💖
I think even if you're not usually an audiobook version it's well worth getting it, and if you are an audiobook person then you definitely should get it as well: The production value is excellent and really …
I got the book for the first time way back when it was first published and I loved it, Chameleon Moon is one of those books that feel like a warm hug, a blanket and hot chocolate, and - as biased as I might be as a backer of the kickstarter - I finally got to start listening to the audiobook and Roanna and Kyle did such a great job!!
The audiobook is such a powerful way to experience the book! I may have wibbled a little from Radio Angel’s first appearance and then Regan’s narration, and the music is so wonderful!! I’m so happy to have seen it come to life!! 💖
I think even if you're not usually an audiobook version it's well worth getting it, and if you are an audiobook person then you definitely should get it as well: The production value is excellent and really makes the narrative pop even more than it always has. Hearing Radio Angel in RoAnna's's own voice just feels correct and if you liked reading the book you should definitely listen to it as well.
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
It took me a bit to get into the groove of Murderbot - I’ve had the novella on my ereader since 2020 and I wasn’t disliking it but I wasn’t compelled just yet - but I did get to just read it in one setting and… I was pretty glad there was more stuff to read because our dear Murderbot does take a couple books to warm up to the reader themself as well. I think you’ll have your fairest assessment of whether or not you like this series by novella 3 or 4, where you’ve gotten to go through a few adventures with it. It’s frankly making me really happy to be alive in this age of ebooks: These fast paced novella adventures would probably have been made to get expanded into a single novel but this works much better in my humble opinion.
