Tak! a commenté A Season of Monstrous Conceptions par Lina Rather
Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, …
The #SFFBookClub pick for September 2025
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Tak! a publié une critique de Under the Eye of the Big Bird par Hiromi Kawakami
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
3 étoiles
This felt to me like a much more surreal variant of North Continent Ribbon. Each story/chapter was a continuation or a tangent of a previous one, but I don't feel like the whole contributed much to a more coherent understanding of the whole picture. Overall, the vibe was very vague, and I'm not sure how much I took away from the experience.
Tak! a noté Where the Axe Is Buried : 5 étoiles
Where the Axe Is Buried de Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his …
Tak! a commenté Under the Eye of the Big Bird par Hiromi Kawakami
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
The #SFFBookClub selection for August 2025
Tak! a publié une critique de North Continent Ribbon par Ursula Whitcher
On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight …
North Continent Ribbon
4 étoiles
Cloud Atlas vibes, good writing, great settings
Tak! a publié une critique de Saturation Point par Adrian Tchaikovsky
A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new …
Saturation Point
5 étoiles
Clever and grim near-future climate catastrophe scifi
Tak! a publié une critique de A Sorceress Comes to Call par T. Kingfisher
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors …
A Sorceress Comes to Call
5 étoiles
Surprisingly (to me) dark fantasy about a girl whose abusive mother is trying to seduce and manipulate her way into the aristocracy
Tak! a publié une critique de Full Speed to a Crash Landing par Beth Revis (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first …
Full Speed to a Crash Landing
3 étoiles
A shallow, funny scifi heist novel, basically a Janet Evanovich in space
Tak! a publié une critique de Time's Agent par Brenda Peynado
Pocket World–a geographically small, hidden offshoot of our own reality, sped up or slowed down …
Time's Agent
4 étoiles
BLEAK
Tak! a publié une critique de Saints of Storm and Sorrow par Gabriella Buba (Stormbringer Saga, #1)
In this an enthralling Filipino-inspired epic fantasy, a nun concealing a goddess-given gift is unwillingly …
Saints of Storm and Sorrow
4 étoiles
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Despite the overt themes of colonialism and religious imperialism, Saints of Storm and Sorrow feels primarily like a story about toxic relationships - Catalina's abusive partnership with Lunurin, Alon's self-destructive infatuation with Lunurin (and Lunurin's knowing, cynical usage of it), Alon's father's abusive treatment of Alon, even the goddess's relationship with Lunurin.
The hollywood ending feels good, but I have to wonder if any of these characters is undamaged enough to live Happily Ever After.
Tak! a publié une critique de Shroud par Adrian Tchaikovsky
They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back…
New planets are fair game …
Shroud
5 étoiles
I devoured Shroud. This is Adrian Tchaikovsky at his scifi best - truly alien aliens and humans being humans, engrossing drama ensues.
Tak! a publié une critique de Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory par Yaroslav Barsukov
Refusing the queen’s order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished …
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory
3 étoiles
I didn't enjoy this one, and I don't know if I can explain why. The whole thing has kind of a 70s scifi vibe (derogatory). The protagonist is shallow and self-serving, but not in an interesting way. There are interesting things about the world, but we barely explore them because we're chasing the dull protagonist. 🤷
Tak! a commenté Goblins & Greatcoats par Travis Baldree
A goblin with too many pockets and a disturbing affinity for cutlery, a rain-soaked night, …
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Tak! a commenté Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory par Yaroslav Barsukov
Refusing the queen’s order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished …
Someday I will read a book by a russian author that doesn't have alcoholism as a theme
Tak! a commenté In Universes par Emet North
For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel …
Ok, I made it through seven chapters, but this book is really not for me, in more ways than one.
Each chapter is a vignette of the protagonist's life in (apparently) a different parallel universe. Maybe they tie together in the end, I don't know. It doesn't help that I find the main character very unlikable in all her incarnations. It feels very inspired by Cloud Atlas, but not in a good way imo.