The first half of this book reads like a very predictable standard space opera, then it takes a turn for the wild. There are a lot of great ideas here, and my only criticism is that the pacing in the second half was awkward. Tesh rushed through some segments that could have used more detail, yet lingered on other parts way too long.
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Will reviewed Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of …
Good, but not great
4 stars
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Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea …
Will rated Siren Queen: 3 stars
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." …
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Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." …
Will rated Chaos Terminal: 4 stars
Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of …
Will rated Chaos Terminal: 3 stars
Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of …
Will started reading Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of …
Will rated Dogs of War: 3 stars
Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Dogs of War, #1)
Rex is seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics …
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
‘You know why the French called boiled potatoes à l’anglaise? Because they think boiling things is boring, XXXXXXXX, just like all of English cooking is deathly boring—’
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Character name redacted to avoid potential spoiler. R. F. Kuang shows repeatedly that she's not a fan of English food.
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Content warning Chapter 16
A dream; this was an impossible dream, this fragile, lovely world in which, for the price of his convictions, he had been allowed to remain.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Travel sounds fun until you realize what you really want is to stay at home with a cup of tea and a stack of books by a warm fire.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
my father says we were aristocrats in the Mughal court, or something like that. But not anymore.’
‘What happened?’
Ramy gave him a long look. ‘The British, Birdie. Keep up.’
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
@Tak@reading.taks.garden The line right after that plays along nicely. "For a country that profited so well from trading in spices, its citizens were violently averse to actually using them"
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …