joeyh rated Bookshops & Bonedust: 3 stars
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful …
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joeyh reviewed Exordia by Seth Dickinson
Anna Sinjari―refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker―has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. …
went a bit long, not entirely to my taste, still quite good
4 stars
joeyh reviewed The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #2)
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a …
quick read
3 stars
joeyh started reading The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #2)
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a …
Babel by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
joeyh rated Gate of Ivrel: 2 stars
Gate of Ivrel by C.J. Cherryh (The Morgaine Cycle, #1)
joeyh rated The Lost Cause: 3 stars
The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry …
joeyh rated The Will to Battle: 3 stars
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #3)
The Will to Battle is the third book of John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, a …
joeyh rated Perhaps the Stars: 4 stars
Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #4)
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book …
joeyh rated The Will to Battle: 3 stars
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #3)
The Will to Battle is the third book of John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, a …
joeyh rated Starter Villain: 2 stars
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there are the things you'd expect. …
joeyh reviewed Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a …
flawed, liked where it ended up though
3 stars
Very mixed experience with this. Bounced off it years ago. On this read, kept stalling out. Lots of tropes I prefer to avoid, lots of unlikeable characters. Structure seemed obvious. End was a little bit of a surprise and managed to make me somehow want to read book 2 despite the flaws.
joeyh rated The Spare Man: 2 stars
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Robinette Kowal
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for …
joeyh rated Rose/House: 4 stars
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a …