Public defender who enjoys reading science fiction and fantasy books and playing roleplaying games.
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25% complete! Alex Keane has read 5 of 20 books.
A lot of interesting information about how the fonts we choose and the formatting decisions we make can aid or hinder our attempts to convey information and persuade others.
Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a …
After solving The Grendel Affair, the agents have another SPI File to investigate. We're Supernatural Protection & Investigations, known as …
Fire burns bright and has a long memory….
Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the …
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her …
Advance Your Game
This comprehensive guide to the Pathfinder roleplaying game provides everything you need to set out into a …
One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this all-too-near future science fiction debut …
Disclaimer: I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley
Mal is a streamer for a Virtual Reality video game in a dystopian future United States where two megacorporations have split the US between them and wage war over what's left. She stumbles upon secrets about the SecOps Operatives, genetically engineered heroes that are pop culture celebrities for refugees from the war between the corporations.
I really enjoyed this book, the way it portrays the relationships between Mal and her partner Jessa and between the operatives. There's a real message of "Your real friends and family are the people who've got your back" woven throughout the book. There's a lot of action and a lot of intrigue and the pace is pretty quick.
It reads to me like what Ready Player One could have been if it had done more of an exploration of the corporate-owned dystopia it envisioned. …
Disclaimer: I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley
Mal is a streamer for a Virtual Reality video game in a dystopian future United States where two megacorporations have split the US between them and wage war over what's left. She stumbles upon secrets about the SecOps Operatives, genetically engineered heroes that are pop culture celebrities for refugees from the war between the corporations.
I really enjoyed this book, the way it portrays the relationships between Mal and her partner Jessa and between the operatives. There's a real message of "Your real friends and family are the people who've got your back" woven throughout the book. There's a lot of action and a lot of intrigue and the pace is pretty quick.
It reads to me like what Ready Player One could have been if it had done more of an exploration of the corporate-owned dystopia it envisioned.
This book has city wreaking mechs that are fought by super soldiers with swords and is fueled by the power of friendship. It's a great read.
The tenth book in the InCryptid series.
Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price cousin and …
I really enjoy the world building and characterization in McGuire's InCryptid series. Calculated Risks starts right where Imaginary Numbers left off, with Sarah having to deal with the aftermath of that book's events and save her family.
There's a big theme about what it means to be a person that gets revisited throughout the book, looking at the consequences for those who get left on the wrong side of the person/not-person line.
I really enjoy Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne's Pell books. They're humorous fantasy picking apart some of the common tropes of the genre with wacky pop culture references that just work.
A cursed princess who woke from an enchanted sleep with more facial hair than she laid down with, a dryad who wants to help people by becoming a lawyer, a centaur tea wizard coming to grips with his own abilities, and the least elf-y elf in Pell all join a pirate crew and have nautical adventures while fulfilling prophecy and pillaging a cheap meat empire.
It was a truly fun read.
