Equations of Life is the first in the Metrozone Series, which is also known as the Petrovich series. It was recommended to me by a friend who also enjoys science fiction and fantasy books as suitable for a vacation read. I am not much of a romance reader, and haven’t really found anything breezy to read lately, so took both Equations of Life and Gardens of the Moon with me to the South Pacific. While I started with Gardens of the Moon, once I picked […]
A tale of wheeled cities
“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in Spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.” …And from that opening sentence on, I was hooked. In the distant future, in the aftermath of the Sixty Minute War which put paid to the world as we know it, a system called Municipal Darwinism arose. Evolving out of the need to dodge the volcanoes and earthquakes that rocked the earth following the war, mechanical cities […]
I’m not sure about this series
OK, so according to the description on Amazon, it’s been nearly two years since Alice went down the rabbit hole and met the Biter queen (See my CBR8 review #48). Her and her people and her biters have been through a lot. I think it was book 2 (CBR8 review #49) where her people started to be kinda ok with the biters. They also started communicating with the American resistance in that book. We start this book with a nuclear explosion in Shanghai. I can’t […]
Powered Teenagers That Mess Up, Like Teenagers
Zeroes is a co-authored book that starts what will probably be a trilogy. I didn’t pay attention and didn’t realize that the book had three authors until I finished it and there were three author bios at the end of my kindle edition, and looking back I can kind of see the seams. That being said, the book is so very much in Westerfeld’s wheelhouse; so much so that the book constantly reminded me of his earlier Midnighters series. The book is about a group […]
The night is dark and full of terrors
I found this through Scalzi’s big idea series and immediately put it in my library request list. The list of contributing authors is heavily weighted to my recent favourites, not to mention that I always love dark reinterpretations of fairy tales. This was an awesome collection, starting strong and ending great (and the physical book is gorgeous with lovely internal illustrations, I’ll be buying my own copy). There was a good representation of countries as well as a nice mix of modern retellings with more […]
When the $hit Gets Even More Real
Hello Cannonball Read 9 and hello to my very first Cannonball Read review! I’m more than happy to do whatever I can to help kick cancer squarely in the metaphorical nuts. All right, let’s get down to business.
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