Books read in December 2017
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Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
When We Speak of Nothing - Olumide Popoola
Too Like The Lightning - Ada Palmer
The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
The Obelisk Gate - NK Jemisin
Mistletoe and Murder - Robin Stevens
Treasure Island - RL Stevenson*
A Long Day in Lychford - Paul Cornell
Heroine Complex - Sarah Kuhn
When We Wake - Karen Healey
Luna: Wolf Moon - Ian McDonald
Too Like The Lightning
This is an extraordinary piece of writing and a fascinating achievement in the way it makes the future seem truly strange and alien. I was definitely intrigued and I look forward to seeing how everything plays out.
The Bedlam Stacks
This is an excellent book, full of extremely well drawn feelings, as well as being pleasingly weird - it might just be the geographical/temporal setting, but it really reminded me of Joan Aiken's The Stolen Lake. However, maybe I'm just being unsophisticated, but I could really have done with a more explicit emotional resolution. I feel like it built up to this intense pitch of emotion and then never quite gave me the payoff I wanted, so that although I loved it, I ended up feeling ever so slightly unsatisfied by it.
Heroine Complex
Fun urban fantasy story about an Asian American woman coming into her powers. Unfortunately for me, it did that thing a few UF books I've tried have, whereby the m/f romance was as important to it as the evil fighting, if not more important. Which isn't a criticism, it's just not what I'm really interested in.
*yes, I reread this for entirely Black Sails related reasons, what of it
When We Speak of Nothing - Olumide Popoola
Too Like The Lightning - Ada Palmer
The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
The Obelisk Gate - NK Jemisin
Mistletoe and Murder - Robin Stevens
Treasure Island - RL Stevenson*
A Long Day in Lychford - Paul Cornell
Heroine Complex - Sarah Kuhn
When We Wake - Karen Healey
Luna: Wolf Moon - Ian McDonald
Too Like The Lightning
This is an extraordinary piece of writing and a fascinating achievement in the way it makes the future seem truly strange and alien. I was definitely intrigued and I look forward to seeing how everything plays out.
The Bedlam Stacks
This is an excellent book, full of extremely well drawn feelings, as well as being pleasingly weird - it might just be the geographical/temporal setting, but it really reminded me of Joan Aiken's The Stolen Lake. However, maybe I'm just being unsophisticated, but I could really have done with a more explicit emotional resolution. I feel like it built up to this intense pitch of emotion and then never quite gave me the payoff I wanted, so that although I loved it, I ended up feeling ever so slightly unsatisfied by it.
Heroine Complex
Fun urban fantasy story about an Asian American woman coming into her powers. Unfortunately for me, it did that thing a few UF books I've tried have, whereby the m/f romance was as important to it as the evil fighting, if not more important. Which isn't a criticism, it's just not what I'm really interested in.
*yes, I reread this for entirely Black Sails related reasons, what of it
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