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Avid reader of fantasy, sci fi and science non-fiction.Fan of all corvids. Feeder of crows

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Penric and Desdemona, name a more iconic duo

The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold

June 8, 2021 by murderofcrows 4 Comments

The Assassins of Thasalon is the latest in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Penric series. Most are novellas but we have the treat of a full length novel this time. The plots continues from the last novella  The Physicians of Vilnoc (not last in publication date but in chronology) and is the 10th in the series. Penric is settled down with a young daughter toddling about adorably and another on the way. One of the things I love about this character is his kindness, even though he’s a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: lois mcmaster bujold

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: lois mcmaster bujold ·
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When your vice becomes a virtue

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee

June 7, 2021 by murderofcrows Leave a Comment

Mackenzie Lee’s novel is a fun romp across 18th Europe with a bitchy bisexual mc, his brilliant ace sister, an unrequited love for his gay best friend and a host of murderous aristocrats in pursuit. The plot moves fairly quickly with snappy dialogue supplied by Lord Henry “Monty” Montague, a seemingly unrepentant spoiled brat rogue on his Grand Tour. Monty is a great character, who manages to never be completely obnoxious in his clueless privileged bumblings. He retains enough awareness to make him truly charming- […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: LGBT Romance, mackenzie lee

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: LGBT Romance, mackenzie lee ·
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Space Opera at its finest

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

June 7, 2021 by murderofcrows 5 Comments

This is the 4th book I’ve read by Tchaikovsky and I admit I’m now a total fan. Shards of Earth is probably the most fun, fast paced book of his I’ve read. As with his other books, there is extensive world building,  in depth alien biology and the threat of multiple worlds dying unless humanity gets its act together. I thought he was brilliant with Children of Time and its sequel, but he’s grown even better in this novel. A greater sense of character development and […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky ·
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A SecUnit’s work is never done

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

May 1, 2021 by murderofcrows 1 Comment

Fugitive Telemetry, the latest novella in the excellent Murderbot series by Martha Wells, has our faithful, snarky Murderbot on Preservation Station, guarding the humans it saved in the last book, attempting to relax watching Sanctuary Moon and growing perhaps a bit bored when, alas, a dead human appears. Excuse me, a “deceased human” as our dear SecUnit is repeatedly told to say. Dead human sounds..too blunt…too icky, which Muderbot hilariously reminds us is very true. Humans, dead or alive are constantly eating, secreting, smelling up […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: martha wells, murderbot

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: martha wells, murderbot ·
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One body holds a universe

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

March 14, 2021 by murderofcrows Leave a Comment

  Home is a feeling. That’s a line in the beautifully written Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, a Two Spirit, Oji-Cree author. But it’s also something of a manifesto for Jonny, an indigiqueer young man whose physical body carries all the love, pain and connections to land and people in his life. Like a beautiful hermit crab, he builds a shell to protect himself from homophobia, from feeling the generations of pain in his family, from loving too much. And that same shell is bedecked with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, First Nations, Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead, LGTBQ, Two Spirit

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, First Nations, Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead, LGTBQ, Two Spirit ·
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

March 9, 2021 by murderofcrows Leave a Comment

For everyone who ever felt that some other world was their home, that the rules and ways of this one made no sense, Every Heart a Doorway offers a waystation for the weary traveller on their search. Eleanor West runs a home for wayward children, mostly girls but a few boys too who have tumbled back through doors from worlds that felt like home to find themselves unwillingly returned to this one. Each feels a terrible grief that they had, just for a time, belonged somewhere only […]

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, LGBTQ, Seanan McGuire, YA

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, LGBTQ, Seanan McGuire, YA ·
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