John Wilker

An outstanding collection of short stories from names I knew and even more I didn't.

Definitely worth picking up.

This was far more eye-opening that I expected. And Infuriating if I’m being honest. So much of boomer behaviour slots right into place. It’s amazing how lock step that generation is even without coordination.

If you want a deeper understanding of why the boomers in are lives are doing and saying the things they are, this will help.

Enjoyed but definitely lacks the excitement and adventure of earlier Shannara books

Not for me.

Interesting but too dry for my tastes.

My God, what a crappy book. I mean it's a Star Wars novel so it's not like I was expecting Of Mice and Men, but jeez. The characters were ridiculously flat, every single one of them. There's not a character in the book i cared about at the end. There's so little action it's immensely boring in places. The characters we all know barely (and only 3-4 of them) make an appearance in this. It read like “we need to tell a star wars story, but don't have the rights to the names, so you know have fun with that” except they totally do have the rights and totally could have come up with a story that was even kinda good, but they didn't and this book sold like crazy because we're suckers and “STAR WARS!!!” : If it hadn't taken me so long to get to reading it, I would have tried to return it.I started reading and put the book down, it was that bad. i came back to finish it for two reasons;1. so I could honesty review it2. in the hopes it got magically better, it didn'tThere's some foreshadowing for future books (I assume that's the intent), but even that isn't that interesting and when I finally finished, i wasn't at all anxious to read the next part of the story. I honestly couldn't care less about even one of the characters in this story and certainly have no interest in what happens to them next.

Depressing but good. The historical context for the Democratic Party’s problems was eye opening and useful.

An interesting book. I heard about the authors in a blog post about their 30 years of writing this series. Definitely a “written in the 80s” feel but solid story.

Is this progression fantasy? If so. Not for me.

Wow. Did not (maybe my bad) realize this was gonna jump right into right-wing anti government propaganda. Calling anti-vaxxers "Heroes" is... nope. No thank you.

not for me. By the end of a long read, everyone was pretty much where they started and had little to no growth as people.

There was zero payoff.

tl;dr; Just not for me.

I've read most of the adult focused High Republic and whatever the prequels were called, books. They're just not that engaging and rely way too much on the reader having read the comics, and the YA books.

I knew going in they'd do that so, so that's not part of my rating, just a general gripe. :)

My rating is because the story just took forever to not get very far.

Another EXCELLENT entry in my all-time favorite series.

I went in not knowing what to expect. How could I? I'd not read much of anything from African diaspora authors before. 

These shorts were all engaging and interesting. Some I liked more than others but all provided interesting perspectives and stories from backgrounds so different from my own.

Definitely recommend.

Well that was a gut punch.

Should be required reading for anyone on the left (I mean, really all over, but you know...). There's so much that isn't right any more and can be fixed.

Don't read this if you like Kindle Unlimited, Spotify or just about any big tech/big content.

I think I'm done with Firefly novels. This was the third I've tried and they're all the same. Slow, no real stakes. The writing is solid, this isn't a knock on that. It's a knock on whoever decided to keep these novels set between TV show and movie.

Give us post movie adventures.

chilling. Most of us, myself included aren’t aware of the true threat China poses.

This is entirely based on personal taste. The series so far has been a fun read and I'm sure I'll re-read them someday.

That said.

The previous books started focusing on Alica/Noah, and I was worried we'd continue that, and this book did just that. I don't find either character that interesting, and their kinda adolescent romance on/off will they/won't they thing, is just annoying and not well written.

This might be my last stop on the Spinward Fringe train. I've enjoyed the ride and still recommend the series, but for me, I think I'm done.

This was a fun one!

This was a fun one! I love all of the adventures of Nathan and the crew, but this one was a fun one. Sometimes they're empire strikes back, sometimes they're return of the Jedi. This one was the latter.

A great resource to hold on to. I read it through, marking up lots of sections. I'll re-read it again in a bit as I work on blurbs. Highly recommend for any author.

Another fun romp through the galaxy. i was pretty leery about the whole time jump thing, but so far it's being executed in a fun and engaging way.

A slow burn for sure, but not bad. If you're looking for battles, chases or well action of any kind, this won't be for you. If you want something slower and more thought provoking, take a look. The premise was interesting enough to keep my attention.

A solid read. As with any writing related book, some of the concepts are dated (thankfully, mostly in the tools area).

I liked the scheduling and planning section. I'm working on improving those aspects of my writing.

I enjoyed it. I'm not the target audience (It's YA) but it was a fun read. I got it in a bundle.