Second time through this book, I thought I might add a star, but nope. This one holds strong at four because (unfortunately) it’s not quite as fun on re-read, at least in my experience, because that feeling of not knowing what’s going on and being along for the ride is now gone, and that turns out to have been the main thing I liked best last time. But by no means is that a slam on this book, it’s still really good, just not an […]
I will never find the perfect Salem Witch Trial book.
The search for the book about the Salem witch trials that only seems to exist in my head continues! I do not know if I will ever find a book about this subject that will give me what I’m looking for. I don’t know if one exists, or if it is even possible for one to exist. This book came the closest so far, but it didn’t make the cut in the end. Here is what I want: 1. A book that is informative without […]
Solid debut fantasy novel.
Blood Song is a really, really good fantasy book. Nothing it does particularly reinvents the wheel, but everything it does do is just done so WELL. It was very enjoyable to listen to, particularly since the narrator had a wonderful storytelling voice. Vaelin Al Sorna was a young boy when his mother died, and his father the Battle Lord left him at the steps of the religious Sixth Order, a group of warrior monks who fight for the Faith. Feeling abandoned and angry, Vaelin embraces […]
Fantasy novella with an adorable protagonist.
This is how you do a novella, people. I bought this on release day, actually, and I’m not sure why I waited to read it. I loved Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy, and even now after reading this, I still want more from this world. But I just finished The Fifth Season over the weekend, and then I had a bad experience with another novella read for the Hugos, and this was just the perfect antidote to both of those. The Fifth Season was wonderful, but so, […]
Everyone else seems to like this, just FYI.
Wow, I was expecting so much more from this. It’s nominated for a bunch of awards, and won the Nebula, and I’ve heard Okorafor is a great writer, but this was not a good example of any of those things for me. I don’t know, maybe it’s a combination of her style, the format she chose to write the story in, and the story itself, but the result for me was rushed, simplistic and unsatisfying. And even more so because this story, executed differently, is […]
Scary, but so good, and so smart.
Sometimes you read a book and you’re like, the hell did I just read? And then other times you’re like THE HELL DID I JUST READ. This is the second one. This is the last novel I had to read before I could vote in this year’s Hugos. I probably wouldn’t have read it for a couple of years otherwise because the older I get and the more fantasy books I’ve got crammed all up in my head, the harder it is for me to […]
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