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This never quite came together for me, but it was interesting along the way.

Flux by Jinwoo Chong

October 19, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is an interesting book that is ultimately not really for me, though it has some things going on that made me glad I read it. Even though it left me unsatisfied and mostly puzzled as to what the point was, I never wanted to stop reading (listening) to it, and I was fully engaged the whole time, which is not something you can say for a lot of three-star books. I put off writing this review very much on purpose because I was hoping […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: audiobooks, Flux, Jinwoo Chong, lit-fic, literary, narfna, sff, speculative, time travel

narfna's CBR15 Review No:99 · Genres: Audiobooks, Speculative Fiction · Tags: audiobooks, Flux, Jinwoo Chong, lit-fic, literary, narfna, sff, speculative, time travel ·
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April 2023 Leftovers

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Flux by Jinwoo Choo

The Cutie by Donald Westlake

The Boy with the Faster Brain by Peter Shankman

The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker

May 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy spring! Lady Boss** So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny. What? Whatever. I’ll still keep reading this garbage. The Hunting Party*** I was prepared to write about this being […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre

Jake's CBR15 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre ·
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