Lisa Cole

Interesting sci-fi but I found the book too sterile. It didn't make me feel anything or care about any of the characters.

Great characters, great friendships, great action, great plot and a wonderfully gritty world that I want to know more about; The Lies of Locke Lamora gave me everything I want in a grimdark fantasy book.

4 1/2 *. Beautifully written.

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I cried at the end of this ending to the Mortal Engines Quartet. I grew to love (or loathe...whichever fit) all the characters, those that appeared in all four books and those that didn't. Reeve's vision of our world far in the future, ater the devastation of the Sixty Minute War is so colourful and detailed and unique. His characters are rich and flawed and beautiful and his prose wonderful.
He mines the themes of family and love, loyalty, courage, revenge along with humanity's unending need for conquest and inability to ever live in peace.
Highly recommended!

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I found the book quite sad and Quentin a very flawed, even unlikeable protagonist. It portrayed the pain of growing up and trying to find your place in the world beautifully, though.
I love the contrast between Quentin's idealized, childish vision of Fillory (from the kid's books he worshipped) and the real Fillory, a dangerous place in the midst of chaos.

There are interesting ideas here, but the trilogy is painfully dull. I felt no interest in or attachment to any of the characters.
I found the Earthseed books much better but there's something about Butler's writing style that creates a sort of detachment from the characters. Maybe it's too matter of fact for me.
Still, I admire her take on alien life, their crazy biology and social structure etc.

3.5* it's a bit dated. The idea of certain people who can travel through time becsuse of something in their genes is very cool, though.

3.5*

What an exquisitely beautiful book ‘How High We Go in the Dark' is!
What a moving experience to read it!
Thank you, Sequoia Nagamatsu, for gifting the world with it.

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Enjoyable but a little too much of the same old.

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