One of the fun things about the Everything Box was that all of the various threads come together pretty neatly at the end, and there was snark and mayhem and thievery and adventure in between. The Wrong Dead Guy has a lot of the same stuff, but it’s missing the coherent ending. The stuff with Nelson overall never comes in to the main storyline, and neither do the Auditors. They just seem to be there for some extra scheming and possible threat to Coop and […]
Finding Meaning in Meaningless Ways
The basic premise of Planetfall is that Renata Ghali and a group of fellow scientist and explorers have left Earth and set up a colony on a distant planet, but something happened in the process of getting there and getting set up. There are some mysterious goings on that Ren has complicated feelings about and doesn’t quite understand, especially when it comes to their leader and her former roommate/love interest Lee Suh-Mi. Everything starts to unravel when Suh-Mi’s supposed grandson appears out of nowhere, and […]
Do not read if you are not doing carbs right now
I’ve never been to California in my life. I’ve never even been to the West Coast. I kind of have this image in my head that everybody is either Guy Fieri or Mark Zuckerberg with surfboards in cosplay, which intellectually I know isn’t accurate, but I still have a hard time picturing the San Francisco area otherwise. Similarly, the corporate pieces of the story totally matches with the general idea of what your typical tech San Francisco start-up must be like ( I say that […]
Missing the Beatles and Norse Insults
First, I’ve gotta say that I’m glad I got the Barnes and Noble exclusive on this one; the Norse insult generator in the back is fun if a little limited. So overall, the third book in the Magnus Chase series is pretty standard Rick Riordan fun. There’s plenty of action, and some touching moments mixed in. Seriously, if you don’t at least internally have an ‘awww’ moment when Hearthstone gets his othala rune back, there is something wrong with you. That part of the story […]
Not the emotional wreckage I was told to expect
I was good. I really was. I didn’t peek at any reviews or sneak a look at the last page or two. I really enjoyed the first two books of the series and I didn’t want to ruin this last one. I did see some comments on social media from people who had read the book before me, and all of them were pretty similar. Everyone I’ve seen who posted about A Conjuring of Light on Twitter, Goodreads, etc. said something along the lines of […]
Starting to not like things
Weaver’s Lament has the same elements to recommend it as did its predecessor Brother’s Ruin, but it also has the weaknesses too. The premise is interesting, the world has promise, but nothing is really developed enough for the ideas to really come together. Part of what annoys me is that I’ve read some of Emma Newman’s full novels, so I know she’s capable of good world- and character building, and even if it is YA and a novella, there’s so much that left out that […]
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