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Tak! a commenté Infomocracy par Malka Older (The Centenal Cycle, #1)
Tak! a publié une critique de What Moves the Dead par T. Kingfisher
What Moves the Dead
4 étoiles
I'm sure I read The Fall of the House of Usher at some point, but I didn't retain enough that I had any particular expectations for the direction of the plot, etc.
However, I did read Mexican Gothic relatively recently, so I spent a good deal of What Moves the Dead, once the overall shape of the story became apparent, nodding along and waiting for the characters to catch up - it gave me a chuckle to see the reference to Mexican Gothic in the author's note.
Great writing, an intriguing reimagination of the classic.
Tak! a publié une critique de City of Last Chances par Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
City of Last Chances
4 étoiles
There were a lot of scenes I loved, and the sequence in the beginning where the narrative is passed along a chain of serially coinciding characters is wonderful. When I read the reunion near the end, I literally exclaimed "Hahaha, yes!" As a whole, it felt a touch rambly, but I have no regrets. One area where Tchaikovsky excels is departing from (or maybe just ignoring?) genre tropes, and this is no exception.
Tak! a commenté City of Last Chances par Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
Tak! veut lire The Thousand Eyes par A. K. Larkwood (The Serpent Gates, #2)
Tak! a commenté City of Last Chances par Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
Tak! a commenté The Jasmine Throne par Tasha Suri (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
I enjoyed the setting and the characters, but I really felt like I was having to slog through it - maybe just because of my current circumstances of small slots of reading time, I'm not sure. I'll definitely check out the next installment in any case.
Tak! a noté The Jasmine Throne : 4 étoiles

The Jasmine Throne de Tasha Suri (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once …
Tak! a commenté What Moves the Dead par T. Kingfisher
Tak! a commenté Glimpse par Leone Ross
Just ordered myself a copy of this - should be of interest to #SFFBookClub folks (and beyond): 'Glimpse', a newly-published anthology of Black British speculative fiction:
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/glimpse
Launch events coming up online, in London and in Brighton: