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Incredible world-building does not make up for a lackluster romance

Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson

July 4, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“I think it must’ve been a person who’d wished for love but had never known it who’d created the first clock. Because time is a reminder of how quickly the present passes and how little of the future remains, and no one in love would want to know that.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson, Before We Disappear After narrowly escaping Paris when his employer/adoptive mother is accused of stealing a rival’s illusion, Jack finds himself in Seattle the month before the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition. While there, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: 1900s, abusive relationships, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, con artists, feminist, gaslighting, heist fiction, heist romance, historical fiction, historical fiction plus fantasy, magicians, queer romance, Seattle, Shaun David Hutchinson, Young Adult Romance

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: 1900s, abusive relationships, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, con artists, feminist, gaslighting, heist fiction, heist romance, historical fiction, historical fiction plus fantasy, magicians, queer romance, Seattle, Shaun David Hutchinson, Young Adult Romance ·
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This book is Leckie-lite.

December 30, 2017 by narfna Leave a Comment

If you don’t go in to this expecting to be challenged with brilliance, you’ll probably enjoy it very much. Despite being set in the same story universe as her Imperial Radch trilogy, Provenance is of a much lighter tone, and is much more accessible. I struggled with massive confusion for about the first quarter of Ancillary Justice before I caught on, but not so here. I had fun with it, but it didn’t knock my socks off (and I don’t think it was supposed to). Our main character is […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: ann leckie, heist fiction, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, provenance, sci-fi

narfna's CBR9 Review No:117 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: ann leckie, heist fiction, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, provenance, sci-fi ·
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