American Gods By Neil Gaiman Published August 2017 (Del Rey) Score: 8/10 I started off 2018 with a big book that has been sitting on my shelf for way too long. American Gods won the 2002 Hugo for Best Novel and was partly chosen because of my goal of reading more Hugo winners, but …
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Review – Phasma
Phasma By Delilah S. Dawson Published August 2017 (Del Rey) Score: 7/10 I haven’t read a lot of tie-in novels, and I probably wouldn’t have picked up this one normally. I got Phasma because I was looking for an audiobook my partner and I could listen to in the car during the long Christmas holiday …
My 2017 in Books
The End of Year Novella Rush At the start of the year, I set myself a reading challenge on Goodreads. 50 books in one year seemed doable in January, but towards the start of December, less so. Which meant I turned my attention to all those novellas I’d been putting aside in favour of full-length …
Review – The Winter Tide
The Winter Tide By Ruthanna Emrys Published April 2017 (Tor.com) Score: 7.5/10 There have been a lot of Lovecraft-related stories recently. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson and The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle were both finalists for this years Hugo Award for best Novella. 2016 also saw the release …
Review – The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales
The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales By Yoon Ha Lee Published June 2015 Score: 9.5/10 I purchased this collection after I first read Ninefox Gambit and then forgot about it. The Fox’s Tower is a collection of Yoon Ha Lee’s fairytale-inspired flash fiction, which is not my usual thing, but I love Yoon Ha …
Review – Sleeping Beauties
Sleeping Beauties By Stephen King and Owen King Published September 2017 (Orbit) Score: 8.5/10 Oh wow, this was a huge book. 700 pages, but I listened to it as an audiobook, so nearly 24 hours of narration there. I’m not sure why I’m so surprised. After all, it’s a Stephen King book; it is …
Review – Provenance
Provenance By Ann Leckie Published September 2017 (Orbit) Score: 9.5/10 I love the Imperial Radch trilogy. I love it so much, that when I heard that Ann Leckie was writing a new book set in the same universe I added it to my Goodreads shelf before I learnt anything else. Then back in June …
The Sore Shoulder Read-a-Thon
Last week, I went to sleep and woke up barely able to move. I’d somehow managed to pull a muscle in my shoulder while sleeping, and therefore had to spend a couple of days in bed. This situation hasn’t been conductive to writing, but I managed to finish a few books. Let me tell you …
Review – Cycle of Fire
Cycle of Fire By Hal Clement Published 1957 Score: 7/10 I have in the past labelled some science fiction stories as ‘hard’, without fully explaining what that means. To quote Wikipedia; “Hard Science Fiction is a category of science fiction categorised by an emphasis on scientific accuracy.” Originally terms like ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ differentiated …
Double Review – The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and Frost by M. P. Kozlowsky. Also, I Love Audiobooks.
No real reason to review these two stories together to be honest. I’ve just been falling behind with my reviews, as my followers may have noticed. I enjoyed both novels, but don’t feel like they were anything super special. I did listen to both these books on Audible, making them my first non-Ada Palmer audiobooks. …
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