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In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a …
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
I'm not sure if I'd call this one of my favorites, but there was something gripping about the way it was written and the slow burn of revelations. The utter unknowableness of everything was crushing, and the mysteries never fully unraveled, but I couldn't put it down.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature …
I pretty much binged the last 2.5 chapters in one night
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
The world building and theorycrafting are excellent but the plot does feel uneven. The first third has great pacing but the latter thirds are slow or jumpy. Enjoyed it but found it hard to finish as it felt like it lacked momentum through the second half.
Definitely more abstract and complex than the first book, and maybe not quite as fun, but it does an amazing job of fleshing out the world of this series. Really hooks you with a mystery to unravel and the payoff is great.
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge …
A noir crime procedural that screws with your mind in ways I’ve never experienced before. Cannot recommend enough.
The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female …
Was sick through book club so no real motivation to wrap this up.
The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female …
okay, bookclub reading this one, hopefully I will actually finish this one :)
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world …
Super imaginative world, very funny and interesting writing. The ending was a bit unsatisfying, but otherwise, this was amazing.
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of …
This...might not be my jam...more specifically I kinda hate this main character.
Henry Every was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. …
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, …
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
"A fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of …
Did NOT enjoy
"A fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of …
I did NOT enjoy this. There is some interesting world building, but it kind of stops developing for the second half of the book. Everything is so droll and dark and hopeless and bleak. The characters are mostly awful, the people are mostly awful, so bleak.
There's some interesting allegory for climate change, but again, just kind of doesn't develop for the second half of the book.