Tak! a commenté The Alloy of Law par Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #4)
"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge …
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Tak! a commenté Magician's Gambit par David Eddings (The Belgariad, #3)
Magician's Gambit is the third part of The Belgariad, a fantasy book series written by …
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What a surprise that the only woman wizard is also the only one who doesn't have a wizard's tower
Tak! a publié une critique de Queen of Sorcery par David Eddings (The Belgariad, #2)
Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb …
Queen of Sorcery
4 étoiles
Finally, something is starting to happen - he just needed a few hundred pages to get going. He seems fascinated with the trope "all-woman/woman-dominated culture that (forcibly) uses visiting men for its own (sexual) purposes".
Tak! a noté Pawn of Prophecy : 3 étoiles
Pawn of Prophecy de David Eddings (The Belgariad, #1)
The first novel in David Edding's Belgariad series, Pawn of Prophecy examines the transformation of Garion from a farm boy …
Tak! a commenté Pawn of Prophecy par David Eddings (The Belgariad, #1)
The first novel in David Edding's Belgariad series, Pawn of Prophecy examines the transformation of …
There's definitely a certain feeling to opening a new fantasy book and seeing a densely illustrated map
Tak! a noté China Mountain Zhang : 4 étoiles
Tak! a commenté The core of the sun par Johanna Sinisalo
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds …
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Tak! a publié une critique de The Angel of the Crows par Katherine Addison
The Angel of the Crows
3 étoiles
An eccentric genius and an army doctor recently returned from the Afghanistan war solve crimes from their Baker Street apartment in Victorian London: supernatural edition.
Well-written, with lots of nods to the original source, yet plenty of original twists.
Tak! a commenté The Angel of the Crows par Katherine Addison
How authors flex:
"I'd like to thank my readers, (list of noted fantasy authors)…"
Tak! a publié une critique de Ogres par Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world.
It’s …
Ogres
4 étoiles
An all-too plausible take on the future of economic disparity. The last few pages really made this one for me.
Tak! veut lire The core of the sun par Johanna Sinisalo
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds …
This comment sold me:
The Core of the Sun further cements Johanna Sinisalo’s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country’s unique take on it, dubbed “Finnish weird.”
Noor de Nnedi Okorafor
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful rumination on biotechnology, destiny, and …
Tak! veut lire The Widow Queen par Elżbieta Cherezińska (The Bold, #1)
The bold one, they call her—too bold for most.
To her father, the great …
Tak! a publié une critique de The Actual Star par Monica Byrne
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …
The Actual Star
4 étoiles
This one gave me Cloud Atlas vibes.
It's set across three timelines: ancient Maya, contemporary, and 1000 years in the future - I enjoyed the future segments and worldbuilding the most.
I feel like one needs to have a solid grounding in latine culture to get the most out of this.
Tak! a noté Eyes of the Void : 5 étoiles
Eyes of the Void de Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #2)
After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Yet humanity’s fragile peace is brief. For, forty years later, the galaxy’s greatest …