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Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (2024) 5 étoiles

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …

Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain (EBook, 2024, Tor Publishing Group) 5 étoiles

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …

The boy was taken upstairs without warning, unprotesting as he had been through all the changes in his seventeen years, the shifts from cell to cell each time he outgrew the bolt on his ankle and the Doctor came to exchange it for a larger one, an operation performed with a tool the Hold people called the Mallet, which jarred the whole leg and sometimes made the blood spray from the anklebone, and caused a sense of queasiness and superstitious awe in the boy, who would glimpse, for the instant during which the bolt and chain were removed, the shiny and alien-looking patch of underexposed skin on his leg which, according to the prophet, housed the seat of the soul.

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That … is quite the #OpeningSentence

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Waubgeshig Rice: Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018) 4 étoiles

"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small …

Moon of the Crusted Snow

4 étoiles

Content warning plot discussion

Suyi Davies Okungbowa: David Mogo (Paperback, 2019, Abaddon) 3 étoiles

Nigerian God-Punk - a powerful and atmospheric urban fantasy set in Lagos.

Since the Orisha …

David Mogo: Godhunter

4 étoiles

In a lot of ways, this reminds me of the Akata series, but for adults - Nigerian setting, making friends and enemies with supernatural entities, Nsibidi script as magic writing, etc. (This is not a criticism of the Akata series, I love them.)

The setting was the best part of this for me - I enjoyed postapocalyptic, god-ravaged Lagos.

I appreciate that David is imperfect and fallible - he makes mistakes, fails, etc., and it has real consequences for him.

The first section (book? sub-book?) was my favorite, followed by the second - as the story progressed, I felt like it kept getting progressively more frantic and less coherent.

Overall, I enjoyed it, though, and I'm looking forward to more.

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reviewed Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss (The Wess'har Wars, #2)

Karen Traviss: Crossing the Line (2004, EOS) 4 étoiles

Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a …

Crossing the Line

4 étoiles

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 😅