Oh man, some pretty big feels in this book. Written by Louisa Hall, parts of it is set in a not-too distant future, not quite a dystopia but perhaps a stop on the way there.I guess it tries to establish what is being alive, what merits that. It does this through several interlocking narratives from … Continue reading
I think if I would have read this in highschool, it would have been one of my favourite series. It seems to have everything I’d like in a story: time travel, enhanced humans and history. However, now as an adult it just feels a bit too on the nose. For those of you who … Continue reading
I don’t even know where to start because this book made way too little sense and was too long for how little sense it made. If you’re a fan of pretty language and absurdist geographies and worlds (basically, if you like China Miéville), you’d probably love Catherynne M Valente’s book. As it’s got lots of … Continue reading
AWWW MANNN. Post-apocalyptic stories rarely end well, and I guess this is the same. Without giving too much away, it has a SAD ENDING. Emmi Itäranta’s novel centres around Noria Kaitio, a tea master in New Qian, the Scandinavian Union. Basically, it is about 1000 years post-oil-environmental crash and it looks like the world has … Continue reading
This books was A DELIGHT. I hope Silvia Moreno-Garcia has more books up her sleeve. I read it in one day. The plot is relatively straightforward but takes place in 2 different times. The first is 1988/1989, when the main protagonists are 15/16 and the other is in 2009 when they are older. The first … Continue reading
I have many feels about this book. I can’t really tell you why because it would basically ruin the ending for you. BUT OMG THE FEELS. So Resistance is Futile by Jenny T Colgan is pretty straight forward plot-wise. It’s very easy to read (I basically read it in a morning commute + evening). There … Continue reading
This is the last of the three books I randomly bought the other day. Mechanica is a retelling of Cinderella by Betsy Cornwall. The twist is that there’s also fairies and it’s a bit steam punk. More like magic steam punk. That also doesn’t describe it well. Basically, there’s a bit of science and engineering … Continue reading
Where to begin. There’s such a collision of genres with Nicole Kornher-Stace’s novel that could have gone horribly wrong, but instead it just made me have ALL THE FEELS. It was good on the level of The Doomsday Book or Ancillary Justice. It was just expectation-defyingly excellent in a way that I’m having problems articulating. … Continue reading
I can’t remember how I came across this book, probably another random search of ‘best sci fi women 2015’ or something like that. Even though it isn’t sci-fi, it’s still a pretty good read. I was very nearly not going to get it as the list made me hate all fantasy novels. However, V E … Continue reading
So The Ship by Antonia Honeywell has a reasonable plot: end of the world, people escape on a ship, plucky heroine thinks all is not what it seems. It is actually more annoying and aggravating than that. One: the plot is really about a death cult in a ship. Two: the heroine takes way to … Continue reading
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