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Pre-Murderbot Martha Wells is worth checking out, but it’s not really like any other fantasy I’ve read.

The Serpent Sea (The Books of the Raksura, #2) by Martha Wells

July 27, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

This is a good series, it’s just not attention grabbing in a month (May) when I had six five-star reads. I’m gonna keep going with the series, though, and definitely on audio! Martha Wells’ writing in this series is just so much more subtle than it is in my previous experience with her work, that featuring the lovely curmudgeon Murderbot. The world the Raksurans live in is also extremely alien, with sometimes completely different cultural mores and practices, not to mention physiological differences. Luckily our […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, audiobooks, martha wells, the books of the raksura, the serpent sea

narfna's CBR14 Review No:118 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, audiobooks, martha wells, the books of the raksura, the serpent sea ·
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Not a human to be seen in this weird but good other world fantasy from the creator of Murderbot.

The Cloud Roads (The Books of the Raksura, #1) by Martha Wells

November 17, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I’ve been wanting to try out Martha Wells’ other books that came before Murderbot for a while now, and I finally checked this one out of the library. I had no idea what to expect going in, and I hadn’t even read the blurb. And I liked it! And it was weird. In a good way. This book takes place on another world, nary a human in sight. The world is populated by “groundlings,” basically wingless humanoid peoples, and creatures of various evolutionary origins who […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, martha wells, narfna, the books of the raksura, the cloud roads

narfna's CBR13 Review No:173 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, martha wells, narfna, the books of the raksura, the cloud roads ·
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