Results of tag "books"
The Mechanical review
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An interesting novel that was more than I expected, with plenty of room to improve. From the Goodreads blurb I thought this was a run of the mill robot uprising scfi story. What I got instead was an alternate history where the Dutch rule the world on the backs of sentient robot slaves and the other...
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Lord of the Silver Bow review
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Fantastic heroic fantasy (historical fiction this time around) from David Gemmell, who is quickly becoming the face of the genre for me. I'd previously only read Legend, written some 20 years before this novel, and there's a very clear step up here in writing quality and characterization. The...
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built review
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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...
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The Wager review
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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...
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Light Bringer review
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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....
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River of Stars review
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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...
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