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The Fold by Peter Clines

Dead Moon by Peter Clines

Terminus by Peter Clines

Paradox Bound by Peter Clines

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14 4/5 I am reading the four books of the Threshold series and I am convinced of a few things. It would make a solid multi-season tv show, where there’s some good juicy roles here, there’s a lot of variety and suspense built into it, and there’s some solid connectivity between the books, but also distinction both in the plot and the storytelling. The books kind of already read like someone who tried to get a job as a screenwriter but then turned to novels. […]

“This isn’t fun. It isn’t exciting. I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters.”

Stray (Touchstone, #1) by Andrea K. Höst

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 8/30 It actually took me quite a bit to get through this one, despite how much I enjoyed it, but I’m blaming that on the fact that I had downloaded the free Kindle edition years and years ago, and Kindle books for non-romances are always iffy with my attention span for some reason. But this really was good! Pretty unlike any other YA sci-fi I’ve read, a unique reading experience. (I’m going to try and track down […]

First contact, near-past historical science fiction.

Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 1/30 I don’t even really know what I want to say about this one! It wasn’t what I was expecting, even though I didn’t think I was going in expecting anything. Figure that one out. All I knew was that it was a First Contact story, and I liked the cover. I think I also might have known it took place in 2007. Our main character is twenty-one year old Cora*, whose father is basically an answer […]

Bella and Edward are kaiju now <3

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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This is objectively a four star book, but I’m giving it five stars, because I can. This book was just super fun to read and it was exactly what I needed and wanted. I will be reading it again whenever I need to feel nerdy joy and my affection for humanity needs a boost. The title of this book sort of says all you need to know before going into it, but if you need more, here’s just a little bit. Jamie is working for […]

“We knew it was coming, but we behaved inconsistently.”

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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Reading Emily St. John Mandel is like falling asleep to the sound of rain: The words wash over you and a steady drumbeat of beauty lulls you into something like perfect contentment. Just reading the loveliness of her sentences would be enough, but then she continues to dazzle by leading your thoughts into new possibilities about the universe, as your mind is apt to drift to questions of cosmic import in the moments before sleep, while those steady drops beat against your windowpane. It’s hard […]

Couldn’t clear the hurdle of suspending my disbelief on this one.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

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One of the hazards inherent in reading older science fiction (especially sff published before the turn of the century!) is that the science just wasn’t there at the time it was written, and in some unfortunate cases like this one (where we now understand a hell of a lot more about biology and evolution), that makes the book more of a time capsule than a thrilling tale. At least, it did for me. The Island of Doctor Moreau follows Edward Prendick, sole survivor of  of […]



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