God, what the hell did I just read. I’m angry and annoyed that something with such a nice cover was so annoyingly vapid and pretentious at the same time. Ugh. Minus a million stars. Continue reading
Category Archives: Book reviews
Book review: Downbelow Staton
This long, tedious book has a much shorter, exciting book inside of it. Or around it. Or I’m imagining it could be. Continue reading
Book review: Vicious
I always forget how stressful reading V E Schwab’s books can be. The tension she manages to ratchet up in such a short amount of time. GOSH. Continue reading
Book review: Binti
Whenever I do a call for I need new books to read, inevitably Nnedi Okorafor is mentioned. However, I had read Book of the Phoenix before and found it really mixed. I found the main character annoying and inconsistent. But anyway, Binti was always recommended and so I gave it a go. And I’m glad I did! It’s a … Continue reading
Book review: The Black Tides of Heaven
To continue in the great-novella-read-a-thon that seems to be my last month of reading, I bought The Black Tides of Heaven by J Y Yang on Kindle. There have been many good things said about it, so why not. It’s got a lot going for it. It’s set in an indeterminate place and time. But the … Continue reading
Book review: The Only Harmless Great Thing
I don’t know what it is lately, but I’ve read like 4 novellas in a row where i hadn’t really read any in the past two. ANYWAY. The Only Harmless Great Thing is not what you might consider a normal novel. It combines the perspectives of two different eras and two different species (elephants and … Continue reading
Book review: Artificial Condition
Artificial Condition is the sequel to All Systems Red (in the Murderbot Diaries). In the sequel novella, we follow our favourite freed Murderbot on a mission to find out about something that happened in its past. Continue reading
Book review: Certain Dark Things
Certain Dark Things is Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s second novel. Like her first novel, Signal to Noise, it is set in Mexico City. However, this is a very different Mexico City. In the book’s universe, vampires were found to exist in the 1960s – and most countries banned them. While vampires aren’t banned in Mexico, they are banned … Continue reading
Book review: All Systems Red
A brilliantly quick read with a delightful lead character. Continue reading
Book Review: Ice
I really should give up on reading older novels, I never tend to like them. Ice by Anna Kavan was written in 1967 and was supposed to be about the advancing glacial ice consuming the world. However, it was mostly about an obsessive man chasing after a woman. But also imagining different violent ways she … Continue reading
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