Reviews and Comments

Young people with weird abilities that they think of as super powers and not one of them can talk to cats or rodents.

Disappointing, but I'll read the next book in the series, just the same.

No talking cats or rodents. There are little buffalo looking things that eat anything and fart oxygen. The narrator is a stage hypnotists who uses his hypnotism to fight ESP and corner the market on buffalitoes.

It's light reading, so I read all the stories, but it wasn't the heavier science fiction or fantasy that I normally like.

This is a good sequel to [b:The Oversight|18453119|The Oversight (Oversight Trilogy, #1)|Charlie Fletcher|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1392338982s/18453119.jpg|26098034], which was a very good book.

I'd have given this one 5 stars, but unlike the first book, this one really needs the next book in the series and the next book is not out yet.

Who knows how long I'll have to wait.

Also, no talking cats.

There's a raven who makes noises that one of the characters understands, but it's not like we get to see the raven's psychological complexity.

This is a good sequel to [b:The Oversight|18453119|The Oversight (Oversight Trilogy, #1)|Charlie Fletcher|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1392338982s/18453119.jpg|26098034], which was a very good book.

I'd have given this one 5 stars, but unlike the first book, this one really needs the next book in the series and the next book is not out yet.

Who knows how long I'll have to wait.

Also, no talking cats.

There's a raven who makes noises that one of the characters understands, but it's not like we get to see the raven's psychological complexity.

A satisfying wrap-up to the series. And if it's not the wrap-up, I'm okay with that.

A satisfying wrap-up to the series. And if it's not the wrap-up, I'm okay with that.

Once or twice a year, I take a break from talking cats, spaceships and robots to read something that matters.

This book matters. Ta-Nehisi Coates is an important writer and a good writer. I feel like I understand the world better because I've read this book.

And I'm glad I follow the Atlantic so that I can read all his articles there when they come out.

I've been avoiding post-apocalyptic stories lately, but this one kept my attention all the way through. It had two main pluses for me:

1) No zombies, just 99% of the world's population dying from a really bad flu.

2) Much of it was set in Toronto and southern Ontario.

I've been avoiding post-apocalyptic stories lately, but this one kept my attention all the way through. It had two main pluses for me:

1) No zombies, just 99% of the world's population dying from a really bad flu.

2) Much of it was set in Toronto and southern Ontario.

I like Jim Butcher's other series more. The Dresden series is excellent fun and the new series has a talking cat.

But this series is tiding me over while I wait for new volumes in those series. Spoiler Alert: The Canem ambassador says there's rats in his walls, but they aren't rats and they don't talk.

No talking cats or talking rodents.

But outstanding story telling that qualifies as fantasy but is nothing like any other fantasy I've read.

It says "The Divine Cities, #1" so we can expect a #2. I'm looking forward to it, but this is not a book that needs a sequel to feel complete.

I liked Half a King so much that I had to read Half the World and Half a War. Now I'm feeling a bit let down. I tagged this as fantasy, but really it might be extremely post-apocalyptic science fiction.

No talking rodents, I'm afraid. But there were people being clever, I always like that. And some people trying to redeem themselves. I like that too.

These magical short stories made me want to write my own outrageous stories.

What's stopping me besides time and energy?

They just wouldn't be this wonderful.

And technically, I don't want to spoil this for you, but there might even be a talking cat.