Results of tag "books"
A Psalm for the Wild-Built review
| Reading time: ~1 minute
I've only read one Becky Chambers book before this one, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, but it seems like her books follow the same general themes: futuristic, peaceful societies with little to no violence, a healthy dose of optimism, and characters that have the personalities of modern...
Read more
The Wager review
| Reading time: ~1 minute
A riveting historical narrative that takes its time to get going. The story of the Wager is honestly one of the more interesting little historical episodes I've ever heard of. It's got it all; a shipwreck, a mutiny, desperate struggles to stay alive, and at the end of it all several different...
Read more
Light Bringer review
| Reading time: 2 minutes
A titan of a novel that in some ways takes the series back to its roots while simultaneously driving the plot forward and crucially developing many of the major players. In the 4 year wait between Dark Age and Light Bringer, I admit many of the finer details and smaller characters were lost on me....
Read more
River of Stars review
| Reading time: 2 minutes
Guy Gavriel Kay is my favorite author, so when I say River of Stars was a bit of a disappointment, it's in the context that it's still one of my favorite reads of the year. However, it's definitely still in the lower tier of his work in my opinion, never reaching the heights of Lions and the...
Read more
Waybound review
| Reading time: 2 minutes
Cradle is one of my favorite popcorn reads, having maintained a level of quality (and a rapid release scheduled) over 12 books that's really admirable. It's not deep literature by any means, just breezy Western cultivation novels, novelized comics. That said, they're really fun. They're a good way...
Read more
Walking to Aldebaran review
| Reading time: ~1 minute
Walking to Aldebaran is a short scifi novel from the prolific Adrian Tchaikovsky, and it starts off simple enough: an anomaly is discovered, a team is sent to explore it, and bad things happen. A good chunk of the book is rather predictable; our protagonist gets separated from the crew and is left...
Read more