Tak! rated System Collapse: 5 étoiles
System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
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Tak! commented on The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #1)
In the far future, humanity has left Earth to create a glorious empire. Now this …
Tak! rated Rose/House: 4 étoiles
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a …
Tak! rated The Warden: 3 étoiles
The Warden by Daniel M. Ford (The Warden, #1)
There was a plan.
She had the money, the connections, even the brains. It was become one of the only …
Tak! wants to read The Old Goat and the Alien by Veo Corva
Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and …
Reserve your copy at www.kickstarter.com/projects/veocorva/the-old-goat-and-the-alien
Tak! commented on Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #3)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and …
Content warning big plot spoiler
Unspeakable Olli, the Pincer and the Claw
Tak! commented on Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #3)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and …
I'm kind of burning out on "with extreme prejudice"…
Tak! commented on Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #3)
"For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used …
Content warning Trilogy plot discussion
I just reread this trilogy again recently, between other things.
I've seen a number of criticisms of the differences in pacing/scoping between the three novels, from people who interpreted Ancillary Justice as "Breq's epic quest to kill god" and the latter two as "Breq doodles around with local politicians and Presger Translators".
I appreciate the different framing of each novel, and particularly that events other than The Grand Struggle for Control of The Radch are given focus - for one thing, it makes room to tell other stories in the universe, like Provenance and Translation State.
But I think it also indicates that the primary storyline in Ancillary Justice wasn't Breq/Seivarden/present, it was Justice of Toren/Awn/past – instead of the Shis'urna stuff being backstory for the main events, the Breq stuff was an epilogue to the main events, and in that light, the scoping of the three books isn't so different.
Tak! reviewed The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
The Library of the Dead
4 étoiles
A touch more original than a lot of urban supernatural, and highly appropriate for the Halloween season
Tak! commented on The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
Hell yeah, Ropa puts peanut butter in her oatmeal
Tak! commented on Viscera by Gabriel Squailia
"A woman with strange abilities travels across a bizarre war-torn land in an inventive and …
Woo, that first chapter certainly sets the tone
Revelator by Daryl Gregory
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in …
Tak! rated First Snow: 5 étoiles
First Snow by Veo Corva (Tombtown)
Tak! commented on The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
The #SFFBookClub selection for October 2023
Tak! commented on The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva (Tombtown, #2)
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
It's official publication day! Go read The Beautiful Decay!