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DScrimshaw@bookwyrm.world

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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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Two abandoned children come upon a gingerbread cottage inhabited by a cruel witch who wants …

Review of 'Hansel & Gretel' on 'Storygraph'

It's a good retelling of the story. But I was left thinking, if you're Neil Gaiman you can write anything and we'll read it. Even a version of a story we've heard so often there's even a Bugs Bunny version.

William F. Gibson, William F. Gibson (duplicate): The Peripheral (Paperback, 2015, Berkley Publishing Group, Berkley)

Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade …

Review of 'The Peripheral' on 'Storygraph'

I wasn't sure at first because it was weird and I didn't know what was going on. But it was worth going on because it kept getting weirder but it started to made sense. Very fun read.

William F. Gibson: The Peripheral (2014)

The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson, set in near- …

Review of 'The Peripheral' on 'Storygraph'

I wasn't sure at first because it was weird and I didn't know what was going on. But it was worth going on because it kept getting weirder but it started to made sense. Very fun read.

Scott Westerfeld: Afterworlds (Hardcover, 2014, Simon Pulse)

In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, …

Review of 'Afterworlds' on 'Storygraph'

It's two books in one. And I didn't get what I really wanted out of either of them.