Awww, I like this series. I spent almost my whole review of the second book in this series being baffled about why I had so many complaints about it, and yet still enjoyed it so much. I’m just going to embrace the cognitive dissonance. I’m in for this series. Vision in Silver is very much a transition book. Meg was the catalyst for a whole bunch of changes that were gradually creeping up on both the Other and human communities of Lakeside, and then began […]
why is nk jemisin so good at words?
Okay, need the third book now, so there’s that. This second book was still really good, but it didn’t feel as revelatory as the first one did. I mean, that was inevitable. (Oh, boy, though nothing like a first book in a series that smacks you upside your head.) Still, this is a great second book. Second books are hard. They’re not as fun as first books, because beginnings are wonderful, but they still have to be interesting and matter without giving too much away […]
Not as good as the first book, but I still liked it.
Holy cliffhanger, Batman. I mean, I did like this, but I didn’t like it as much as I liked the first book. And it’s probably mostly my fault. I don’t know, I was in a weird place with this, not paying it enough attention as I should, on top of Ryan going and changing up the format on us. The first book was told through Vaelin’s perspective, and it was so immersive. I normally love books that have rotating POV characters, but I kept getting […]
A disappointing middle book, built around some really neat stuff.
Oh, man. Okay. What a weird book. (Spoilers for book one ahoy.) So the Trisolarans are coming, man! They’re coming! And humanity has four centuries to prepare. Particles called sophons are monitoring everything on Earth (all communication, written, spoken), and locking down technological and scientific advancement in order to cripple humanity in advance of their invasion. The only place safe from Trisolaran view is the individual human mind. Thus the Wallfacer Project is born. Four men (seriously, no ladies?) are chosen, and given almost unlimited […]
My favorite of these yet, but I can see the story starting to creak . . .
Wow, it only took me eight days to read this. I feel like I was reading it forever. Actually, that’s not always a bad thing to say, though it certainly sounds bad. Sometimes I feel that way about a book if it’s a slog, but sometimes I feel that way if I was really sucked into the world and I’m having trouble pulling my head out of it again. I think this may be more of the latter than the former, here, though the book […]
This book is book crack.
I fell in love with this book within, like, five minutes of starting it. I had zero problems with it, and I went basically full cartoon heart-eyes* the entire time I was reading it. So, you know, keep that in mind for the rest of this review. Critical thinking skills not getting much use here from me. *Or, because I’m watching Steven Universe for the first time right now, we might also say I went full star-eyes. I’m halfway through season one right now and already […]
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