📚torstein📚 finished reading Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell
Tom Corbett #2
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Too little time; sleeping when I should be reading and reading when I should sleep. Mostly English language SF/F, but I occasionally read other fare.
What it means when I rate something: ★★★★★ - This moved me in a way that changed my life. ★★★★☆ - I loved it. ★★★☆☆ - It was OK ★★☆☆☆ - Meh, it was entertaining at least ★☆☆☆☆ - Complete trash (if I dislike something, but it is well written I'd rather not give it any rating. The single star is reserved for the real trash). Addendum: I will not rate badly written stories by obvious first time writers. If you have managed to self publish your first story and people actually read it, I'm not going to piss on your parade. I'll reserve that single star for your next book (or the fifteenth one for that matter).
Note: I have heaps of books imported from another database where the rating used was 1-6 (dice), so some books are rated higher than I would normally. I'll be adjusting stuff as I work my way thru the list of books (once I have fixed the 300 or so books that didn't import automatically :P)
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📚torstein📚 rated City in Glass: 3 stars
City in Glass by Nghi Vo
A demon. An angel. A city.
The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has …
📚torstein📚 rated The Fire Court: 4 stars
📚torstein📚 rated Hemlock & Silver: 4 stars
Hemlock & Silver by Ursula Vernon
Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.
Not to die, but to save—seeking cures for those everyone else has given up …
📚torstein📚 finished reading Hemlock & Silver by Ursula Vernon
Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.
Not to die, but to save—seeking cures for those …
It's Vernon, so you know what you get; self-declared spinsters, handsome guardsmen, really creepy crawlies that pale in comparison to the real horrors. Had a bout of insomnia so read the whole thing in one go.
It's Vernon, so you know what you get; self-declared spinsters, handsome guardsmen, really creepy crawlies that pale in comparison to the real horrors. Had a bout of insomnia so read the whole thing in one go.
📚torstein📚 rated Penric's Fox: 3 stars
Penric's Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold (Penric and Desdemona, #5)
Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the …
📚torstein📚 rated Penric and the Shaman: 3 stars
Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold (Penric and Desdemona, #2)
In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in “Penric’s Demon”, …
📚torstein📚 rated Penric's Demon: 3 stars
Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold (Penric and Desdemona, #1)
On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the …
📚torstein📚 reviewed The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, #2)
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since …
Meh…
2 stars
While The Lost World has it's moments, it reads as a draft for a movie. Which it is too be honest. Characters are flat, exaggerated stereotypes. Even the dinosaurs are a bit dull.
The whole thing seems rushed, minor mistakes all over the place. I could never get a grip on the layout of the island, the relative distances between locations seemed to vary depending on the need for suspense.
Crichton does show some self awareness tho. Malcom coming back, as "his next iteration" after being "only slightly dead". Riffing on Grant's misconception from the first book about T.rex sight.
Still, this book would have been so much better if Crichton actually -wanted- to write it.
While The Lost World has it's moments, it reads as a draft for a movie. Which it is too be honest. Characters are flat, exaggerated stereotypes. Even the dinosaurs are a bit dull.
The whole thing seems rushed, minor mistakes all over the place. I could never get a grip on the layout of the island, the relative distances between locations seemed to vary depending on the need for suspense.
Crichton does show some self awareness tho. Malcom coming back, as "his next iteration" after being "only slightly dead". Riffing on Grant's misconception from the first book about T.rex sight.
Still, this book would have been so much better if Crichton actually -wanted- to write it.
📚torstein📚 rated The Lost World: 3 stars
The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, #2)
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science …
📚torstein📚 rated Criminal Vol. 1: Coward: 4 stars
Criminal Vol. 1: Coward by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips (Criminal, #1)
The bestselling crime series returns in strikingly designed new editions from Image, starting where it all began: CRIMINAL, VOL. 1: …
📚torstein📚 finished reading Criminal Vol. 1: Coward by Ed Brubaker (Criminal, #1)
The bestselling crime series returns in strikingly designed new editions from Image, starting where it …
Brubaker har etter hvert blitt synonymt med "hardbarket krim noir" og denne serien er intet unntak.
Brubaker har etter hvert blitt synonymt med "hardbarket krim noir" og denne serien er intet unntak.
📚torstein📚 rated Ashes of London: 3 stars
📚torstein📚 rated Vagabond Volume 3 Vagabond Vizbig Edition: 4 stars
📚torstein📚 rated Vagabond VIZBIG Edition, Vol. 2: 3 stars
Vagabond VIZBIG Edition, Vol. 2 by Takehiko Inoue (Vagabond VIZBIG Edition #2)
Enlightenment
Musashi sets out for Nara intent on challenging the warrior monks of legendary Hozoin Temple. But Musashi's growing …