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Hopefully it’s just series sophmore slump

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

November 24, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Potentially unpopular opinion ahead: I did not especially like Harrow the Ninth. I loved Gideon the Ninth, but I don’t think all the narrative experimenting and the pacing worked out well here. After Harrow becomes a Lyctor and Gideon is gone, about 85 percent of the Harrow the Ninth is confusion. The narrative switches between second and third person (there’s also some first person but that is mostly later) and neither voice really knows what’s going on; on the one hand, this makes sense because […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: death magic, Harrow the Ninth, sepculative, space, tamsyn muir, the Locked Tomb

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:82 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: death magic, Harrow the Ninth, sepculative, space, tamsyn muir, the Locked Tomb ·
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‘Fear is the mind-killer.’

Dune by Frank Herbert

August 27, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

When the Atreides family is betrayed, the heir Paul and his mother Jessica are sent on the run – and into the path that leads to his ultimate destiny. About three quarters through this book, I texted my friend M, who loves this book, the following: Arrakis is the Middle East. Melange is oil. Is Paul a white savior? That’s a very flippant way of looking at a book that carries a lot more within itself than that. Dune is about environmentalism, about religion, about […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Fiction, Frank Herbert, popsugar2022, space

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:116 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Fiction, Frank Herbert, popsugar2022, space ·
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A calico cat sitting upright next to a the book, "Record of a Spaceborn Few" by Becky Chambers.

“If trying something new was valid, then keeping something old was, too…. Life meant death, always. But by the same token, death meant life.”

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

June 12, 2022 by Dome'Loki 3 Comments

Becky Chambers continues to keep me in awe of her writing.  Record of a Spaceborn Few is the third book in the “Wayfarer Series”.  It tangentially ties into the first book as one of the main characters, Tessa Santoso, is sister to Captain Ashby Santoso, of the spaceship Wayfarer, in A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.  This book is centered on The Exodus Fleet, the last humans to leave Earth when the environment collapsed hundreds of years ago.  They wandered for generations until […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Becky Chambers, cbr14, Dome'Loki, lesbian character, LGBTQ, space, Wayfarer series

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Becky Chambers, cbr14, Dome'Loki, lesbian character, LGBTQ, space, Wayfarer series ·
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Space is creepy. Ghosts in space are creepier…

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

June 12, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Holy crap was this creepy.  Just like the last book I reviewed, I recommend listening to the audiobook.  The sense of dread is overwhelming, and I’m not sure you’d be able to create it that much for yourself by just reading. Claire is the team leader of a salvage crew in space.  They’re on their last mission and about to be moved on to different jobs.  Claire doesn’t want to leave, because she has nothing to go home for.  In the first few minutes you’re […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: S.A. Barnes, space

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: S.A. Barnes, space ·
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Zombie Anthology!!

Nights of the Living Dead by Jonathan Maberry and various

June 12, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

  This is another one of those collaboration efforts by a bunch of well known (especially in the zombie genre) authors.  Like all of the anthologies I’ve read this year (is anthology the right word?), some were realllllly really good, and I actually wanted to hear more about the characters and world that the author created.  Some were fine and I just read through them and they left my brain forever.  I don’t really remember any of them being truly bad though. There was one […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Jonathan Maberry and various, politics, space, zombies

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Jonathan Maberry and various, politics, space, zombies ·
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One flighty cat

Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space (This Is a Reissue of a Previous Edition) by Dominic Walliman

June 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space (This Is a Reissue of a Previous Edition) has much in the way of scientific facts which are seriously presented but are paired with very cartoon illustrations.  The text in Dominic Walliman’s book is long, dense, and not for all readers. The serious tone of the wording would work for a more serious reader/learner, but the cartoon art might turn them off. Of course, the student might be drawn to the cartoons and that will keep their attention with […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Non-Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Ben Newman, Cats, Dominic Walliman, Science & Nature, space

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:281 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Non-Fiction · Tags: adventure, Ben Newman, Cats, Dominic Walliman, Science & Nature, space ·
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