Phillip Santiago reviewed Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the …
Review of 'Homegoing' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Required reading.
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A recent transplant to the Triangle area in NC. Main reading goals include literary fiction about modern families, current events nonfiction, scientific speculation, and more.
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Phillip Santiago reviewed In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Review of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Called it by page 200 of 308. But that's not necessarily because I'm super-clever. Ware does this thing where she telegraphs that a character is a bad person to the reader, but the protagonist is frustratingly too stuck in her own insecurities to realize it. There's a compelling sequence of events and even the framing device adds some intrigue to the first third of the book, but Ware leans on the levers too often and what started out as suspense ends up as melodrama.
Phillip Santiago reviewed Star wars by Mike Baron
Star wars (1996, Boxtree)
Review of 'Star wars' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
While I find some flaws in Zahn's prose, I really enjoyed the plotting. It felt like an organic continuation of this story. Weirdly, if I wish there were more changes to the final draft, it's regarding Mara Jade. Intriguing character, but the reveal about her past oddly lacked atmosphere. It's about as far from the Revelation in Cloud City as you can get. Knowing what I know about where Mara goes next, I kind of wish her obsession with Luke wasn't this...one-dimensional, but I'm still intrigued to see how Zahn develops her further.
Review of 'Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I don't know, Justice Breyer, it sounds like should have published this after you retired.