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Thomas Rigby

hryggrbyr@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

When I'm not building things for the internet, I take photos of stuff.

  • ScandiNoir
  • HighFantasy
  • UrbanFantasy
  • Fantasy
  • YoungAdult
  • SwordAndSorcery
  • Dystopia
  • DystopianFuture

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2025 Reading Goal

50% complete! Thomas Rigby has read 6 of 12 books.

Holly Black: Book of Night (Book of Night, #1) (2022) 4 stars

Competent gothic urban fantasy

4 stars

From a strong opening, Black immediately throws us into a world where magic is real and practitioners steal shadows for nefarious purposes.

The Book of Night tells the story of recovering thief, Charlie, who is drawn to trouble like a moth to a wool jumper.

Our protagonist has quit the stealing business and tends bar in a dive joint cum brothel cum underground shadow alteration parlour when, one night walking home after her car breaks down, she sees a murdered man with a shredded shadow and is dragged back into a life she tried hard to leave behind.

thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-the-book-of-night-holly-black/

Nicholas Binge: Ascension (Hardcover, 2023, Penguin Publishing Group) 3 stars

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle …

A deep book. Perhaps not as deep as it wishes it was.

3 stars

Some books allow you to be enveloped in them like a cuddle from a doughy grandmother. Others scream in your face obnoxiously like the shift manager at a McDonald's on a bank holiday weekend. This book is the latter.

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Sally Gardner: The Snow Song (EBook, HQ) 4 stars

Women imprisoned by superstition, chained by guilt.

Perched on a mountain in a land of …

This book is so gentle

4 stars

Weaving a tapestry of folklore and fairy tale, Gardner recants an epic of the cruelty of men, both in action and passivity, the victims of tradition for tradition's sake, and hope born of bravery, strength, and community.

thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-the-snow-song-sally-gardener/

R. F. Kuang: Yellowface (Hardcover, 2023, HarperCollins Publishers Limited) 4 stars

What's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not …

This starts off feeling like an easy holiday read then slowly spirals into what is basically horror.

4 stars

This has been on my "To Read" list since Ellie Game's arresting cover caught my eye. I skimmed the blurb and wanted to read it even though it didn't feel like my "usual sort of thing".

thomasrigby.com/posts/book-review-yellowface-rf-kuang/