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joachim a terminé la lecture de Hild par Nicola Griffith (The Hild Sequence, #1)
joachim a noté The Circumference of the World : 3 étoiles

The Circumference of the World de Lavie Tidhar
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being …
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joachim a publié une critique de House of Open Wounds par Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
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.
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joachim a noté System Collapse : 4 étoiles

System Collapse de Martha Wells(duplicate) (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 a commenté Musashi par Eiji Yoshikawa
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 a publié une critique de Jinn-Bot of Shantiport par Samit Basu
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 a commenté Saint Death's Daughter par C. S. E. Cooney
joachim a noté A Choir of Lies : 4 étoiles

A Choir of Lies de 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 …