#Science Fiction – Page 16 – Cannonball Read 17

Some romantic books I read this summer and am reviewing now to reach a double Cannonball

Fangirl, the Manga: Volume 3 by Rainbow Rowell and Gabi Nam

Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha

How the Wallflower Was Won by Eva Leigh

Knockout by Sarah Maclean

December 30, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

Fangirl, the Manga: Volume 3 – Rainbow Rowell and Gabi Nam Rating: 4 stars This August saw the release of the third installment of Rainbow Rowell’s manga version of Fangirl, my absolute favourite of her books (did I just buy a fancy tenth-anniversary edition, even though I own it in three other formats, NOT counting the mangas? You betcha). Cath is still struggling at college. Her writing partner Nick steals the story they’ve been working on together and makes her seem unreasonable for being upset […]

I forgot how much I liked these books

Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb

December 25, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is book 29 in the series, it’s not necessarily the best place to start. Eve Dallas has a couple of days off due to a national holiday and is planning on spending it with her gajillionaire husband Roarke. But murder doesn’t take days off, and when Eve is specifically requested to lead a case, she neither can nor wants to refuse. A newly promoted police captain whom Eve has worked with in the past returned home from a weekend away […]

Best Re-Read to Date! Re-Read with Friends!

Blindsight by Peter Watts

December 23, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Dear God, there are many days left in the year as there are books I need to review to complete a half cannonball… Let’s see how I go. Blindsight This is hard, depressing science fiction at its best, and one that certainly left a mark on me when I first came across it about 10 years ago. I hadn’t really thought about giving a re-read until recently when I was sitting at Book Club one evening and it was time to play the game of […]

Hi, it’s me, the worst book of the year.

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

December 22, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I’m not mad just disappointed. Just kidding, I’m pretty mad. I’m going to say what many reviewers have said before me: This is not a book about a man who is swallowed by a whale and has to use science to get out alive. This is a book about a man (a teenager, actually, but more on that below) who has daddy issues real bad, and he happens to be swallowed by a whale also. The parts with the whale are few and far between—it […]

A trippy, atmospheric sci-fi haunted house.

Rose/House by Arkady Martine

December 22, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

“I am Rose House, entire, and have never been anything else. I am not lonely. I do not wish to be a companion of elsewheres.” This was so atmospheric and a pleasure to read, even though I’m pretty sure I didn’t understand half of what was going on. The main conceit here is that this is a sci-fi take on a haunted house, where the haunt is an A.I. that IS the house, not that inhabits the house or was installed there, but is in […]

“We all have ways of showing our patriotism, and mine is holding my country to account. I want to dissuade her from her worst, cruellest impulses, for I truly believe that if she does not evolve past them, she will not survive.”

Truth of the Divine (Noumena, #2) by Lindsay Ellis

December 11, 2023 by narfna 3 Comments

I don’t have it in me right now to talk about this book in the way that it deserves. This is a book that explores the fallout from First Contact (and the fallout from covering up First Contact) in practically every way possible. There was so much going on in this book (and all of it done well), I don’t even know how to start summing it up. I’m tempted to just do the bullet points thing. In fact, you know what, fuck it. I’mma […]

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