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Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to …
Military S.F. in the Captive's War universe. Standard unit-bonds-and-drops-to-a-planet with the James S.A. Corey voice.
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he …
story about a young man who gets stuck in an ancient wood as it's protector in tree form. if you like faeries and dryads and stories about them, this may be for you. like stories about gods, it's not my thing.
Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she must now break the time loop that …
Have set Libby to notify me when the library has copies.
Groundhog Day meets Deadpool in Django Wexler’s raunchy, hilarious, blood-splattered fantasy tale about a young …
The premise is that Davi wakes up naked in a small pond in a magical world, where she is proclaimed to be the messiah of prophecy. Only after doing this 237 times and the hordes of the Dark Lord overrun the Kingdom every time, she gives up. She decides she's going to become the Dark Lord instead. There's a bit of Groundhog Day in this, but thankfully Wexler only takes us through those motions for the first chapters.
Davi is the kind of character I usually find annoying. Way too quick with quips and never serious, like every damn character in a Scalzi book. Thankfully there's an actual character arc where Davi comes to realize other characters aren't just NPCs in her personal video game, and she becomes less self-obsessed over the course of the book.
This is one of the few books lately where I became more interested in …
The premise is that Davi wakes up naked in a small pond in a magical world, where she is proclaimed to be the messiah of prophecy. Only after doing this 237 times and the hordes of the Dark Lord overrun the Kingdom every time, she gives up. She decides she's going to become the Dark Lord instead. There's a bit of Groundhog Day in this, but thankfully Wexler only takes us through those motions for the first chapters.
Davi is the kind of character I usually find annoying. Way too quick with quips and never serious, like every damn character in a Scalzi book. Thankfully there's an actual character arc where Davi comes to realize other characters aren't just NPCs in her personal video game, and she becomes less self-obsessed over the course of the book.
This is one of the few books lately where I became more interested in the story as it got further along.
From debut author Daniel Abraham comes A Shadow in Summer, the first book in the …
Starting another book from the large backlog of stuff in my ebook library.
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise …
The origin story of the dragon Temeraire, captured from the French by the captain of an English ship, William Laurence. The person who drew the short straw is rejected as a rider by Temeraire, and Laurence becomes the rider in his place, but must give up his career in the navy. Training and battles in the dragon air service follow.
It is well-written, but the extended treatment of the proper relationship between riders and dragons was not interesting enough for me to want to seek out the sequels. People who like tales of manners will find this more enjoyable.
Content warning reveals the science fictional element
Quite enjoyed this tale of an aging rock star who learns her sister's band's guitarist is undead.
They're the galaxy's most wanted—and our only hope.
When Elza became a space princess, she …
I've now completed a Bookwyrm list for the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, with Promises Stronger Than Darkness being the final book on it (for now).
List can be found at sfba.club/list/79/s/locus-award-for-best-young-adult-book for those on SFBA.club.
A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only …
Just acquired in ebook. Will start when I finish my current read.
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise …
This has been on my TBR for 15 years. I originally got the ebook as a freebie from suvudu.com, a long defunct site run by Penguin or Random House (I forget which company owned the Del Rey imprint before the merger). Let's finally take a crack at it.
An accessible, compelling introduction to today’s major policy issues from the New York Times columnist, …
when i picked this up i thought it was new writing. it's actually old columns of his. they were great when i read them the first time. not really interested in re-reading them, particularly the ones from the Bush era.
Never Go Back has a simpler conspiracy than the previous book, A Wanted Man, and it meant I could actually enjoy this one. The bad guys mess with Reacher, setting him up to take a fall for a murder he did not commit. This sets up a cat-and-mouse between Reacher and the baddies, as he escapes, dodges the fuzz & the henchmen, tries to rescue the girl, and gets down & dirty with the woman he decided he wanted to meet something like 4 books ago.
July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York City on …
Also, he's in high school but so cool he picks up college girls.
As before, young Reacher is even less believable than adult Reacher. Very meh on this story.
Much has happened in the years since the publication of the seventeenth edition of The …
I bought the latest edition of the CMOS and put it on a newly created "Reference" shelf here.
Set in the near future, Nancy Kress’ story gives us a world increasingly hostile to …
Kress likes to do "what if human bodies were changed..." stories. This one is: what if a symbiotic species inhabited a human such that it could make changes to the host but the person and symbiote could only communicate in a general sense. So the symbiote can make its host able to spit toxic saliva when threatened, or change the host's pigment and apparent age, etc. Set in an era where there's a breakdown in civil society because large numbers of US residents believe in witches (and want to burn them at the stake).
The Pieczynski piece features a woman in 1980s Sandinista Nicaragua who focuses the energy of the fighting between Contras and Sandinistas and turns it into sentient whirlwinds and golems.
