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It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no …
This one just wasn't for me. I feel like it was one of those books that's all setting and no plot - and the setting was great, but I just couldn't engage with it.
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a …
It kept very much to the themes of the original: genocide, greed, betrayal, and the sheer amount of damage a few bad-faith actors can do in a system not designed to account for them
Finished just in time for #SFFBookClub sequels month 😅
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no …
#SFFBookClub pick for April 2024
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret …
Avertissement sur le contenu I don't think I can review this without some vague spoilers
Babel is a story of colonialism, racism, sexism, whiteness, Englishness, loss, betrayal, and despair. It's basically a modern parable grittily illustrating the causes and consequences of colonialism.
I love the translation magic mechanism, and I found the embedded etymology tidbits super interesting.
I also appreciate that the author had the courage to allow Bad Things to happen to major characters - not in a GRRM torture porn kind of way, but just as a kind of natural consequence of the world and the characters' interactions.
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
A series of bleak, gritty glimpses of what's in store for us over the next few decades.
The tone is lightened a bit here and there with injections of optimism, but I think it works against itself a little when the optimism feels unwarranted.
The way that the characters from the different stories are linked reminds me a bit of Cloud Atlas (although I only saw the movie (sorry)).
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
Wow, the second story is bleak. Do not recommend for people with children in their lives.
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
The #SFFBookClub January pick is How High We Go In The Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu. Thank you to all who voted and/or suggested books.
Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey: Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands (Paperback, 2020, Interlink)
Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a tent …
I enjoyed the setting, and some of the substories were compelling, but as a whole it was too rambling and incohesive for me.
I feel like it would have worked better as a series of stories about different people from the same village or whatever instead of repeatedly being like "despite being in the middle of this incredibly urgent life crisis, the main character decides to spend six months teaching an older woman to fold laundry" or "despite having a very bad outcome two chapters ago, the main character decides to engage in exactly the same dangerous behavior with no additional precautions"
Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey: Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands (Paperback, 2020, Interlink)
Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a tent …
Let's see if I finish this one in time for #SFFBookClub
Sonia Nimr, Marcia Lynx Qualey: Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands (Paperback, 2020, Interlink)
Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a tent …
The #SFFBookClub selection for December 2023
A touch more original than a lot of urban supernatural, and highly appropriate for the Halloween season
The #SFFBookClub selection for October 2023
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …
The #SFFBookClub selection for September 2023
