I enjoyed it! The characters were interesting. I loved how one of the main characters was a fiercely intelligent and strong woman in her sixties, who still had a love life and a career.
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hollie finished reading The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
hollie rated The Boy from the Woods: 3 stars
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hollie finished reading Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Loved it!
hollie rated Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory: 4 stars
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells
“Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well's Murderbot Diaries. This story …
hollie rated Fugitive Telemetry: 4 stars
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
hollie rated Exit Strategy: 4 stars
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be …
hollie rated Rogue Protocol: 4 stars
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
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 …
hollie rated Artificial Condition: 4 stars
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
hollie rated Sharp Objects: 1 star
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart.
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. …
hollie rated All Systems Red: 4 stars
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
hollie reviewed Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart.
Words are like a road map to …
Not my cup of tea
1 star
Oh, this was not my favorite, I’m afraid. Sharp Objects is skillfully written but the story is much darker than I’d normally go for (I read it for a book club), and the heroine just struggled throughout - I never felt happy for her and I had trouble relating to her, so, in the end, it felt like witnessing the life of someone I cared for but couldn’t connect with just unravel, in truly awful ways, while I could do nothing but watch. I didn’t enjoy it. Like the many descriptions of vomiting in the story, reading it felt like tasting bile for hours.
I didn’t like any of the characters (except her editor back in Chicago). The small town’s inhabitants are pretty uniformly characterized as uneducated, troubled, and driven to alcoholism, addiction, and escapism. I found this whole side of the book to be fairly insulting to small towns. …
Oh, this was not my favorite, I’m afraid. Sharp Objects is skillfully written but the story is much darker than I’d normally go for (I read it for a book club), and the heroine just struggled throughout - I never felt happy for her and I had trouble relating to her, so, in the end, it felt like witnessing the life of someone I cared for but couldn’t connect with just unravel, in truly awful ways, while I could do nothing but watch. I didn’t enjoy it. Like the many descriptions of vomiting in the story, reading it felt like tasting bile for hours.
I didn’t like any of the characters (except her editor back in Chicago). The small town’s inhabitants are pretty uniformly characterized as uneducated, troubled, and driven to alcoholism, addiction, and escapism. I found this whole side of the book to be fairly insulting to small towns. Every character was a negative stereotype of unsophisticated, small-minded, gossipy people. It made it hard to care when you finally find out who did it.
hollie finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
This was a reread for me, and I enjoyed it just as much the second time around. I really love Murderbot. I find their narration oddly calming, despite the fact that their storyline continually takes them into danger.
Favorite quote:
Gurathin turned to me. “So you don’t have a governor module, but we could punish you by looking at you.” I looked at him. “Probably, right up until I remember I have guns built into my arms.”