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Much of my "reading" these days is actually audiobooks while walking.

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a commencé la lecture de The Storm of Echoes par Christelle Dabos (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, #4)

Hildegarde Serle, Christelle Dabos: The Storm of Echoes (Hardcover, 2021, Europa Editions, Incorporated)

The gripping finale to Christelle Dabos’s international best-selling Mirror Visitor saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, …

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a publié une critique de Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon (Standard Edition) par Grace Lin

Grace Lin: Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon (Standard Edition) (2025, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Decent, but I think I'm not the target audience

Disclaimer: It has a been almost half a century since I qualified as a "young reader". I found the book engaging, but I suspect I would have enjoyed it more reading it to a child of the appropriate age.

I'm more used to the "young adult" trope of the young protagonist who is wiser than their adult peers, even if they undergo some growth in the book. Here the main character is constantly being described in words like "petulant", and mostly comes off as a bit of a twit, even compared to their age group peers. Of course this provides some narrative tension of its own, since it isn't clear young Jin will cope with the responsibilities they suddenly acquire.

There is some gentle suspense, and themes of death or separation of parents and children. Parents might like to read ahead to decide if their small human is ready for …

a publié une critique de System Collapse par Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells: System Collapse (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom)

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.

Following the events in …

Another Murderbot adventure

For the first half of the book I was a bit confused, perhaps because it is really a sequel/continuation of Network Effect (and it's been a while since I read that). In the end I did enjoy it, particularly the middle part, where Murderbot does something completely unmurdery to save the day.

a commenté All Is Fair par Emma Newman (The Split Worlds, #3)

Emma Newman: All Is Fair (EBook, 2016, HarperCollins Publishers) Aucune note

Third in the series that’s “an intriguing mix of modern world, Victorian/Regency England, and faery” …

I recently listened to the first 3 books in this series back to back, and they certainly held my interest. On the other hand readers expecting things to be wrapped up after 3 books will be disappointed. Similarly, the first three books read more or less like one extended book.