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Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha) by Tasha Suri

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I was incredibly fortunate to have Bothari43 as my CBR11 Book Exchange gifter. I gave her a list of authors and she rewarded me with a bounty, all of which you will eventually hear about. By coincidence, the Romance Sparks Joy book club announced that their January read is Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, one of the books Bothari43 gifted to me. You can follow RSJ on twitter @SparkJoyRomance. The general discussion of the book has already happened, but there will be a chat about […]

crystalclear picked a good one!

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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I got this cheeky book from crystalclear for the 2019 CBR Book Exchange. I had seen a few so-so reviews for it already, so I was a little worried going into it, but I enjoyed it so much! I can see why some folks didn’t wholeheartedly embrace it, but the potential pitfalls didn’t bother me at all. We are dropped into this world with little to no explanation. Gideon Nav, an orphan who was raised on a planet ruled by the Ninth House necromancers, is […]

The continuing adventures of critters you wouldn’t expect to care about

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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I was wowed by the scope of Children of Time, and it just keeps getting bigger in Children of Ruin. I was expecting a straightforward sequel, but as with the first book, all of my predictions were (delightfully!) wrong. It also covers a huge span of time, but it starts out concurrent with the first book, following a different terraforming crew. They find a couple of neighboring planets that have terraforming potential and get to work. Things go off the rails astoundingly rapidly. This is […]

Confirming that this one’s my fave

The Scar by China Mieville

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This was kind of a new experience for me. I reread old favorites all the time, but how often do you get to reread new favorites? This is the first China Mieville I ever read (reviewed in 2014!), and I have now read everything he’s written, so I started over. This one is still my favorite. The world-building is amazing. This man’s imagination is bonkers, and I’m so glad he shares it with the world. The characters are unlikeable but incredibly compelling, which is so […]

Futuristic witches should not be this bland and disappointing

The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata

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I used to never ever give up on a book, no matter how wretched. I’m getting better at that, but I’m still learning when to give up. This one had one character interesting enough that I stuck with it, but then I was sorry I had. The story covers three characters, basically: there’s Nicco, some kind of android with a Bladerunner-like expiration date, who’s trying to get the magic doohickey (the Bohr Maker, a centuries-old, illegal software program that can basically recreate your body to […]



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