joachim finished reading The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
Loads of good ideas.
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joachim finished reading Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the …
A well constructed climax and a sweet and sour end for the trilogy.
joachim finished reading Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia by Jason Pargin (Zoey Ashe, #3)
Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival in the desert, which every year …
Entertaining and fun
joachim reviewed House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
Utterly engrossing
5 étoiles
I really like how this world works, the magic, the gods, the attention to detail, and the way humans deal with all that. Also, a great cast of characters and a worthy conclusion.
joachim finished reading A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - …
A very entertaining book, I thought I'd be bored by too much science and space law, but that was not the case.
joachim rated System Collapse: 4 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 …
joachim commented on Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.
Miyamoto Musashi …
It's quite long, but I enjoy the pure serial-ness of the writing. It was published in a newspaper, so you had to keep the readers coming for more, I guess. Will anything will ever be resolved? I still have more than half the book to find out.
joachim reviewed Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
From international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure …
A solid, fun, imaginative and enjoyable book
5 étoiles
Samit Basu doesn’t lack humour and imagination, which make this story very enjoyable. His previous books have mixed cultural and political elements of Indian life with fantasy and science fiction, enriching old westerner tropes and bringing new life to genres that have for too long been only explored by white dudes.
The heart of the story is the question: if you were living in a world menaced by sea rise and dominated by ultra rich factions, and if you found a magic lamp with a genie, what would you ask them? Of course you’d have first to find said magic lamp, and fight your way to keep it when the whole power structure wants it too. Luckily in this scenario you’d be a mischievous monkey robot with delusions of grandeur…
joachim commented on Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
Fun, froofy and glorious: a coming-of-age story in a new trilogy from World Fantasy Award-winning …
thoroughly enjoyable piece of thanato-core
joachim rated A Choir of Lies: 4 étoiles
A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland (The Tales of the Chants, #2)
A young storyteller must embrace his own skills—and the power of stories—to save a nation from economic ruin, in the …
joachim finished reading A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland (The Tales of the Chants, #2)
A young storyteller must embrace his own skills—and the power of stories—to save a nation …
Good follow-up: expands the story without repeating it
joachim rated A Conspiracy of Truths: 4 étoiles
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland (The Tales of the Chants, #1)
Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a cold, filthy jail cell in a foreign …
joachim finished reading A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland (The Tales of the Chants, #1)
Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a cold, filthy …
A surprising story about stories shaping history.
joachim reviewed Le Conte de l’Assassin by Jean-Philippe Jaworski (Le chevalier aux épines, #2)
Le grand retour du tueur à gages Don Benvenuto
Au cours du tournoi de Lyndinas, …
Un autre point de vue, pour la même histoire
3 étoiles
Le style de ce deuxième volume est plus supportable que celui du premier, quoique j’aie quand même eu des problèmes de ponctuation et d’espaces. C’est une sorte de Rashōmon : on redécouvre la même histoire que le précédent volume, depuis le point de vue de Benvenuto, le héros de Gagner la Guerre. Comme le narrateur est différent, le style est différent. Pas plus mal, mais au final je reste un peu sur ma faim—trop peu de choses sont racontées qui font avancer l’intrigue. Tout la complique en revanche, c’est intéressant mais… je veux aller plus loin :)
Bref, on verra l’an prochain pour la suite, j’imagine ?
joachim reviewed Le Tournoi des preux by Jean-Philippe Jaworski (Le chevalier aux épines, #1)
Soupçonnée d'adultère, la duchesse Audéarde de Bromael a été jugée, répudiée et emprisonnée. Le champion …
Pas vraiment fan du rythme et du style d’écriture
3 étoiles
Comme mentionné dans mon commentaire sur le même titre, j’ai trouvé que le style péchait par trop de fioritures et le rythme par trop d’irrégularité. Et les cliffhangers, ça fait quand même passé. En plus de ça ma copie du livre avait des problèmes typographiques/SR (espaces avant/après les ponctuations)
En revanche le propos est vivant, l’histoire tient en haleine si on passe outre les défauts.