An avid sci-fi and fantasy reader who sometimes does historical fiction or even mainstream.
You might notice that most of my reviews are 5 stars. That's because if I start reading a book that doesn't engage me, I stop reading it. Life is too short. I've realized that it's not fair to review a book I haven't read and nobody really needs to hear why I didn't get into a book especially when they might like it.
My goals with reviews are to be brief and give other potential readers an idea of why they might like the book. I leave it to the marketing people and other reviewers to describe the plots.
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From the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction …
Well written and weird. Maybe more weird than I'm up for.
Science fiction that's not like anything else out there but kept me interested the whole way through.
Well written and weird. Maybe more weird than I'm up for.
Science fiction that's not like anything else out there but kept me interested the whole way through.
Listen. A god is speaking. My voice echoes through the stone of your master's castle. …
This story that would be classified as fantasy is very different from Ms Leckie's science fiction, but just as rewarding in how different it is from everything else.
I just spent ten minutes saving links to all of her short stories that are online and downloading the podcasts of her stories that have been saved that way. Because some of them are set in the same universe.
Although it does not seem that any focus on the god who narrates The Raven Tower or on Eolo, the main human character.
I would really like to spend more time with either of them.
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl …
Seanan McGuire is doing amazing things with the concept of magical worlds that children go off to. In this one she creates a fascinating world based on fair bartering.
I particularly like how she skips over the "adventures" that most of these stories dwell on and gets right to the real drama for her character.
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl …
Seanan McGuire is doing amazing things with the concept of magical worlds that children go off to. In this one she creates a fascinating world based on fair bartering.
I particularly like how she skips over the "adventures" that most of these stories dwell on and gets right to the real drama for her character.
I like police procedurals and I like urban fantasy and this scratches both of those itches.
I wish I'd read this sooner after I read Rivers of London because I do not have a good memory of what happened to everyone in that book and even who was exactly who and it matters.
Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place …
I recommend this if you're into books that build on the myths of fairyland and show it as a dangerous and scary place. Or if you like stories where someone is in a bad situation and has to rely on their resourcefulness and what makes them different from everybody else.
I started this book thinking I probably wouldn't finish it, but before long I was hooked and am now disappointed that I'm going to have to wait for the sequel.
Polly has two sets of memories...
One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger …
I don't remember when I read this, but I know I did and I liked it.
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet …
I don't remember when I read this, but I liked it.
September has longed to return to Fairyland after her first adventure there. And when she finally does, she learns that …
Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were …
I recommend this if you're into books that build on the myths of fairyland and show it as a dangerous and scary place. Or if you like stories where someone is in a bad situation and has to rely on their resourcefulness and what makes them different from everybody else.
I started this book thinking I probably wouldn't finish it, but before long I was hooked and am now disappointed that I'm going to have to wait for the sequel.
At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones …
I don't remember when I read this, but I know I did and I liked it.
