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a publié une critique de Obsidian Tower par Melissa Caruso

Melissa Caruso: Obsidian Tower (2020, Orbit)

The mage-marked granddaughter of a ruler of Vaskandar, Ryx was destined for power and prestige …

The Obsidian Tower

The Obsidian Tower is driven by Frantic Protagonist Syndrome - the heroine, Ryx, rushes from bad decision to worse decision, impelled by an entirely artificial sense of urgency. It's obviously the planned start of a series, so a whole lot (a whole lot) of questions are left open, and very little is resolved in the end - I would be kind of interested in some of the answers, but not enough to endure another installment.

a commenté The Atrocities par Jeremy C. Shipp

Jeremy C. Shipp: The Atrocities (2018, Tor.com) Aucune note

Jeremy Shipp brings you The Atrocities, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education …

a commenté Curlfriends par Sharee Miller (Curlfriends, #2)

Sharee Miller: Curlfriends Aucune note

Nola Washington has never met a problem she can't solve. She's a fashionista and an …

a publié une critique de After The Revolution par Robert Evans

Robert Evans: After The Revolution (Paperback, 2022, AK Press)

What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an …

After the Revolution

After the Revolution is kind of a mashup of The Last Girl Scout and Dogs of War, with a hint of Handmaid's Tale. Honestly, if you haven't read any of those, go read them first and then come back.

The premise is that the US has dissolved into a handful of warring nation states (what's happening in the rest of the world? who knows or cares), at least one of which is a christian fundamentalist oligarchy, and the story follows a handful of people in the conflict between that and the Republic of Texas.

It's an engaging read, if not always an easy one. I feel like some of the characters' progression arcs (Sasha) were inconsistent and handwavy. The House of Miriam situation felt almost naively mild in comparison to what would actually happen to those people in that situation, but on the other hand I don't want to read …

a publié une critique de Interference par Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #2)

Sue Burke: Interference (Paperback, 2020, Tor Books)

Interference

I really like the way that Interference takes the themes from its predecessor and extends them in different directions, without just being like "and this is the next thing that happened to all the same characters".

I particularly enjoyed the way she wove in the contingent from Earth - it reminded me strongly of the later books in the Planetfall series.

New humans, new life forms, new explorations - it builds a great new story on the foundation laid in Semiosis.

a publié une critique de The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses par Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3)

Malka Older: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (2025)

When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …

The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses

I appreciate that this one had an even more self-sufficient Pleiti, as well as exploring Mossa's fallibility. (I swear I'm not anti-Mossa, I just prefer the "two complementary equals helping people together" dynamic to the "superhuman investigator with sheltered everywoman sidekick" dynamic.)

This one felt more fast-paced and dynamic to me than Imposition, although I suspect that an objective examination would probably reveal that there isn't a significant difference.