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Every time I read one of these non-fantasy, non-sci-fi books I feel slightly surprised that they too are quite enjoyable. And, as this is an adult book, I guess, it has nice sex scenes in it too.
This book felt like complete wish fulfillment fantasy. The protagonist is a gorgeous woman who can stand for herself, every man she gets involved with basically adores her, ultimately she meets a rich, gorgeous, famous guy, who not only adores her, but loves her. Oh, and obvsly is emotionally mature.
So that it's not all fluff the people in the story deal with some past traumas, have some messy circumstances to the falling in love parts. Still, the book feels very light and hot.

Best ghost story I've ever read. Probably because it's not a ghost story in the classical sense of the word, but a modern book with all the necessary hook and payoff to make it a great read. But it's also a ghost story.
What I love about it is that people seem brutally realistic. People with power act like people with power. People who want to do better are flawed people who try and sometimes do a bit better. People with problems get into more problems. For the most part. But there's a bit of power and rightness fantasy in it too, to not make it completely bleak.
Really, really solid read (or listen).

I got quite lost in this book. I found myself drifting off in my own thoughts more than I remember doing with basically any other book. It feels like very comforting background nonsense all the talk of mechanicus this and vast sprawling that and such. But at one point I discovered that some characters turned out to be opposing some other characters instead of being another faction on the same ship-world... fleet...? And that's just because of some unique characteristics, definitely not by names. Those are all the same to me in this. Now I'm not sure if I should re-read it assuming I was maybe too tired to listen to it, or go on to listen to the next one, and just float in it without following plot.

This turned out to be more of a short story than a book. Short and sweet. Very nice way to give us the story of such an important event without having us to go through the tedium of too many details of the event. And Tora is charming. As is the protagonist guardsman.

I enjoyed this one a lot. I feel like this is one of the more character building books in the series, referring and following up on past events, tying together the way Miles has been in the first books and in some of the more adventure ones. Again, in this series as a whole, I keep thinking about how book characters can offer us role models, and this series showcases relationships built on honor and honesty, regardless if they are between blood relatives or potential sweethearts, or people in power. Besides that, it shows a hardworking character. Probably a bit too hardworking, and one up for tougher challenges than I think most people are to boot. I know I have to kind of calm myself that I really don't want to be like Miles even though I find him somewhat admirable.

This is again a typical Myles story in that it's a bit annoying that our supposedly thoughtful tactical genius makes very weird and reckless decisions sometimes. But once making trouble has happened, the getting out of it part is interesting enough and the protagonist with his "people before principles" principle is so likable, that I've forgiven the lapses of judgement. Though I think this book had an action sequence that I zoned out for a bit. Still, solid book. Very cool to read.

This was pretty great. It has a similar feel to stuff I've read from [a:Andy Weir|6540057|Andy Weir|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1382592903p2/6540057.jpg] in that it's humans against nature in space and nature is fighting back.

I feel like this would appeal more to people who know and like history more than I do. Even though I have never wondered who would win, this general or that, I enjoyed the book well enough. I think my favorite character is phone.

Really did remind me of [b:The Martian|18007564|The Martian|Andy Weir|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1413706054l/18007564.SY75.jpg|21825181] with plans in space that go wrong and then some more wrong. The main character feels witty but flawed, and all together a fun read.

This book pleasantly surprised me. I'd call it a solid steam-punk adventure. As it started off, I was thinking that it's a fangirl book, we have a multiverse for a book lover to travel, so we can get all the tropes... But the book delivered a solid storyline, a nice magic system or two, and vivid characters. A few steam-punk-y absurdities too, and they fit in by standing out.

Everyone loves a good character development. Well, this book is that, but ambiguous. I think the Inquisition is an abusive force in that world. I'm not sure about the Warp, Taint or whatever it is they're combating. It seemed like the only redeeming trait of the Inquisition that they're fighting against something even worse than them. But Eisenhorn gives into using this "wrong" kind of power more and more, all the while telling himself it's for a good reason. The ending says he continues to work for the Inquisition, and it makes it feel like he somehow did redeem himself when in fact it only reinforces the initial impression - the Inquisition is an abusive force in that world and it's that because of the abusive men making it up.

This was cool. There's an AI, a human - AI relationship, sci-fi sounding scenes of something going on in space... The story makes you puzzle together what's going on, and that feels pretty nice too. Even though it might be that there are actually holes in the puzzle, at the time of reading I didn't notice it because it felt like it might get filled in a bit later.
Another interesting to me bit was that the protagonist is a woman, but it's not very relevant, and I was surprised when I noticed her referring to herself more than once during the book. I thought if I found out a protagonist was a woman I'd identify more with her and would find it easy to remember that she's not a dude.
Fun read.