Connie gets trapped in a mental institution but has started to escape to the future with Luciente – however it’s important that Connie fights her real world battles so Luciente’s future can exist at all. Continue reading
Category Archives: Top picks
Book review: Infomocracy
A smart sci-fi thriller, set in the election year after the world has been divided into micro-democracies. But is the election under threat, and with that threat, the undermining of the entire micro-democracy system? Continue reading
Book review: A Gathering of Shadows
The Sequel to A Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab, we find ourselves in Red London for a wizard’s tournament with our favourite antagonistic couple Kell and Lila. Continue reading
Book review: The Interminables
There’s a guy who can steal time and spend time (and hence is basically immortal) and the conceptual ghost of World War One…who live in the world, where an ancient immortal from the past basically disrupted time/space/other dimensions. It is 100% amazing. Continue reading
Book review: Archivist Wasp
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
Book review: A Darker Shade of Magic
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
Book review: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
For the last 100 pages of this book, I was mainly making incoherent noises at @psythor as all the shit kicked off in the book, with the whole arc of the story winding its way to the end. Most of the incoherent noises were either something along the lines of “omfg they’re so adorable” or … Continue reading
