Books and comics read in February 2017
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Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? - Paul Cornell
The Lost Child of Lychford - Paul Cornell
A Fashionable Indulgence - KJ Charles
Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho
Tremontaine season two
Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
Voices - Ursula Le Guin
Déjà Vu - Ian Hocking
Star Trek: Killing Time - Della Van Hise
Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever
Sorcerer to the Crown
WHAT A GOOD. I loved everything about this (even the m/f romance! WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE) and would like twelve more just like it.
Déjà Vu
I got this free at last year's Nine Worlds and have only just got round to reading it. It's a fun near future sci-fi thriller, slightly marred by a) the actual literal woman in a refrigerator (not there to motivate a man, at least) (though there was a metaphorically fridged woman later on) (sigh) and b) the unnecessary clichéd rape backstory given to one of the characters. On the plus side, I really liked one of the leads, Saskia Brandt: she has some "how do I person" stuff that I enjoyed a lot. And the series is named after her, so I may well end up reading more.
The Lost Child of Lychford - Paul Cornell
A Fashionable Indulgence - KJ Charles
Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho
Tremontaine season two
Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
Voices - Ursula Le Guin
Déjà Vu - Ian Hocking
Star Trek: Killing Time - Della Van Hise
Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever
Sorcerer to the Crown
WHAT A GOOD. I loved everything about this (even the m/f romance! WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE) and would like twelve more just like it.
Déjà Vu
I got this free at last year's Nine Worlds and have only just got round to reading it. It's a fun near future sci-fi thriller, slightly marred by a) the actual literal woman in a refrigerator (not there to motivate a man, at least) (though there was a metaphorically fridged woman later on) (sigh) and b) the unnecessary clichéd rape backstory given to one of the characters. On the plus side, I really liked one of the leads, Saskia Brandt: she has some "how do I person" stuff that I enjoyed a lot. And the series is named after her, so I may well end up reading more.
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Date: 5 Mar 2017 08:04 (UTC)Can I ask something about the third Shadow Police book? Does it get a little less bleak further in? I keep trying it but stumbling over the first bit with Lofthouse and her husband, plus everyone being so flat and depressed for various reasons.
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Date: 5 Mar 2017 13:06 (UTC)It definitely gets worse before it gets better (Quill's storyline is particularly bleak), but it does get better towards the end - I feel like a lot of the characters end the book in better places than they started in.