James Ravenscroft finished reading The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch Series)
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong …
Fun cheesy law/crime thriller. Enjoyable
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James Ravenscroft stopped reading Dr. No by Percival Everett
The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who …
DNF what is going on with the language In this book eurgh
James Ravenscroft finished reading Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) by John Scalzi
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about …
Fun campus sci-fi fun, what a blast
James Ravenscroft finished reading Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik (Starlight's Shadow, #1)
Octavia Zarola would do anything to keep her tiny, close-knit bounty hunting crew together—even if …
Cheesy sci-fi, enjoyable read
James Ravenscroft finished reading The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Saga, #7)
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the …
Took me a while to complete and I paused for a bit in the middle but I finally finished mistborn era 2. Intrigued by what will come next in the cosmere
James Ravenscroft finished reading The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant …
Very enjoyable, interesting concepts and technologies. Strange but enjoyable storyline.
James Ravenscroft rated Snow Crash: 5 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
James Ravenscroft rated Prophet: 5 stars
James Ravenscroft finished reading Recursion by Blake Crouch
Memory makes reality.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he …
Enjoyable sci-fi with time travel, physics and an interdimensional love story aspect.
James Ravenscroft started reading Recursion by Blake Crouch
Memory makes reality.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he …
I've seen this in book shops a few times and it looked interesting so I thought I'd give it a go. I enjoyed (watching) wayward pines. Might have to read Wayward Pines after this and see how the TV adaptation lives up to the novels.
James Ravenscroft reviewed The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson (Secret Projects, #4)
top notch BrandoSando
5 stars
Really good cosmere book. It helps if you've read other cosmere books but you don't have to.
James Ravenscroft finished reading Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (Secret Projects, #1)
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has …
Really enjoyable cosmere book with a whimsical but adult tone
James Ravenscroft finished reading Edge of Collapse by Kyla Stone
Pulpy post apocalypse type book set in the cold. Entertaining weekend read
James Ravenscroft finished reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, …
That was a bit of a wild ride. The pacing was a bit tricky and to start with I couldn't get into it but by the end I was invested. The ending was a little bit disappointing for me.
James Ravenscroft finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure …
A fun short sci-fi about a self aware security bot