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Bright and Dangerous Objects by Anneliese Mackintosh

September 13, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Full disclosure: I received this ARC from the Tin House Galley Club The atmosphere here in Bright and Dangerous Objects is heavy. It’s laden down with creeping grief, sudden disappointment and the growing dread of continuing to exist while things crash apart around you. Sensitive tattoo-artist boyfriends, fancy craft beer, and getaways in stone cottages cannot save you from yourself. Solvig has inherited her mother’s furious brain. She has inherited her father’s tend towards self destruction. She has inherited a hunk of malachite that is supposed to […]

Red Rover Red Rover roll right over Mars

Red Rover: Curiosity on Mars by Richard Ho

November 20, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Red Rover: Curiosity on Mars by Richard Ho, is one of those books that is cool. Yet I still feel lackluster about it. There was something missing. Katherine Roy’s illustrations are a combination of realistic and a hint of whimsy. The text itself, however, has a more artistic then “serious” scientific element, but still has all the information needed. As we explore the planet of Mars, we learn about the planet and the machines that came before Curiosity. This information will grab the space nut but […]

I think I’ve read this book at least four times

The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike

December 28, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

The Season of Passage is one of my favorite books from my teen years. I had always loved Christopher Pike as a teen, because he felt a little more sophisticated than R.L.Stine, who was the other “horror” author for my age group. I guess I probably loved this book from the beginning because the main character’s name is Lauren, which is also my name. It’s just a great book overall though. You get to know the characters enough to care about them before anyone is […]

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

Obscura by Joe Hart

July 27, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So I really liked this book. I read a series either earlier this year or last year by Joe Hart, and it was very different from this book. I guess that series was still science fiction-y, like this one, but it still felt very different. We begin this book by meeting Gillian, as she’s basically getting into a car accident with her husband. We learn that he has this terrible brain disease called Losian’s, that’s similar to Alzheimer’s, but affects all ages. He’s starting to […]

More Pink, Please

The Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown

November 27, 2017 by Gracey the Giant Leave a Comment

So, this was a re-read of this series for me and I have to say that I loved it as much this time as I did the first time around. Pierce Brown created an absolutely fascinating world for this series, and he did so beautifully. The books center on Darrow, a “Red” who works in the mines below the surface of Mars. The Reds are mining a material that will allow Mars to be terraformed so that humans can successfully colonize it. It is important work […]

Here am I sitting in a tin can

The Martian by Andy Weir

November 11, 2017 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Writing this review from my husband’s truck because a) sleeping baby and b) that’s where I found the book after accidentally marooning it in the door panel (appropriate, misplacing this book, no?) and had to finish it ASAP. It’s a testament to Weir’s skill at crafting a tale that I couldn’t wait to finish it despite knowing all the story beats from having watched the movie first. I even got anxious that the probe I knew would fail from having literally watched it explode on […]

Ellesfena on That Didn’t Really Happen.Yeah, before I finished volume 9 I fully intended to reread the whole series before volume 10 came out. Now I’m not sure I can....
narfna on “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the one I think I might like more now especially. It was way too existential for me as a...
faintingviolet on That Didn’t Really Happen.I'm ALSO not over it (only 2 and a half years for me) and was hit with a tidal wave of not okay-ness earlier this...
Ellesfena on “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”This was always my second favorite as a kid (Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my fave), but I reread this a few years back...
LittlePlat on Penric and Desdemona, name a more iconic duoI loved this. A real proper, novel sized adventure for the two of them was exactly what I needed

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