Jai Sedai
Quite a beautiful book. So many wonderful moments, so much pain and suffering. Sometimes it's hard to relish the love when reading about such horror. The gore factor could have been scaled down. There were so many characters who die so it's hard to keep track and feel the death.
I guess the novel is realistic.
4.00/10.00
This one was bad.
This one is a good read through most of the book. But I hated the ending. Too much chaos. The last minute arrival of allies who never had any character development other than being mentioned in the books was very unpalatable. Rhys death scene was mostly pointless. Amren's return was anti-climatic. The king's death was a let down... The highlights are Tamlin's character development, the war strategy with the death gods, Mor's coming out and Ianthe storyline.. Bottomline the ending was a let down.
When I started this book, my expectations were pretty low. The book seemed like any other contemporary gay romance that had more sex than story. Boy, was I wrong.
Trailer Trash (deserves a better name, maybe “Seeing All the Stars” or “My Man in the Desert”) is a beautiful story of young love, innocent and wanting, pure with the bravery of youth, passionate with the struggle to find happiness.
SPOILERS!!
I love how Nate and Cody are just trying to find a place to exist and love each other. I love how Nate shows his affection to Cody while risking so much and how's it's authentic and not cheesy at all. I love the many well defined characters surprised me again and again (Christine!). I love how Cody's mom holds his face in her hands and tells him not to believe those who consider him worthless.
This is one of those books which isn't marketed as a high quality novel but is!
4.70/10.00
SPOLIER ALERT:
I will say that the answer to the riddle was quite obvious, not because I was able to solve it, but the answer to riddles in fantasy shows/books is always love. Its cliché and could have been better thought out. The romance between Tamlin and Feyre is not as sizzling as advertised. But Feyre's character makes up for it. The super-obvious and again cliché of hot girl torn between two hunky Fae is all but certain. Regardless, Feyre's time with Rhys is more emotional and meaningful than Feyre-Tamlin stroy.
7.50/10.00
OK. This book was a roller coaster. For most of this book, I wasn't sure if I like it or not. Especially during the middle 40%. But the ending made up for it all.
Dark matter at the end is a beautiful story of love and family. There are some remarkable twists and turns and some truly emotional moments. The science behind Dark Matter is good, but is heavily unrealistic, and one dimensional. I say this as a true believer of the Copenhagen interpretation so I could easily be biased.
My favorite moment of the book is the tender moment between Jason and Charlie at the end.
5.00/5.00
This book is masterpiece of scientific storytelling. I could not put it down. The creative amalgamation of astronomy, relativity, propulsion mechanics, astrobiology and yes, evolutionary science is a stunning story to read. I could not put it down. I could not put it down.
There are places where the story gets bogged down in too many details, which are not interesting enough to pay attention to.. but those are just the flaws you need in a such an incredible work of science fiction. I do not want to see this become a movie. That will simply ruin the science fiction aspect and overplay the friendship between Grace and Rocky.
This one makes it to my top 5 books.
5.00/5.00
“God created Arrakis to train the faithful”.
Frank Herbert created Dune to blame the guilty. The theme of Dune is a calling of preservation, creation and ecological harmony. This is book is a masterpeice, flawed, but still one so. The creativity behind the ecology of Dune and the Fremen culture is epitome of fantasy world building. The religious adaptation of Islam into the Fremen religion is a stunning display of prose and storytelling. Dune is written in lyrical prose, sometimes mesmerizing the reader into emotional highs. Dune is incredibly visual, with scenes I will never forget.
In spite of my overwhelmingly positive review and rating, I will note the tinge of the author's homophobia invested in one character. It is where this book falls away from being the perfect masterpiece for me.
“Let us pray violence shall never be necessary between us”. “A worthy prayer”.
Emotional Impact -> The prose, the prose, the prose. The worldbuilding, the character moments, the visually charged storytelling. I loved it. I would have given a higher score if it was not for the homophobia thing with Baron Harkonnen. Glad he is dead and we can put him out of our mind. Characters/Theme -> Loved Lady Jessica and Liet-Kynes. What a spectacular death scene for Liet-kynes, probably the best I have ever read. The ecological theme of this book comes out beautifully. I find myself hoping to see the green-brown Arrakis. Paul is a solid character too! and Leto, my dear Leto, my dead Leto, the inspiration for ASOIF's Eddard Stark! I am disturbed by Baron Harkonnen's character and association of pedophilia and same-sex attraction. What a disgusting caricature to parade around... really hit me hard... otherwise I would have loved this book. This book is taking a black & white approach of good vs evil with Leto vs Baron. Plot -> Very good. The idea that the Bene Gesserit manipulated the Fremen for centuries so one day their Kwisatz Hadreach will be accepted as the Fremen Messiah and weild them as a weapon is beautiful. Prose -> Magnifique. On the same level as Terry Pratchett. 10/10!Worldbuilding -> So much here. The fremen! The sandworms!..... I enjoyed this so much! The gender based magic system is added here to aid the sci-fi worldbuilding, making this a true sci-fantasy epic. I'm interested to know more about Alia the savage Truthsayer, the reverend mother!
