Nomad Scry

There's a lot going on here. The book starts with a kid who then only shows up twice more, and is 99% irrelevant to the story being told. There is a bit with a poem by Poe that seems to just be there ‘cuz it's fun to have real world connections. The main pair are internally inconsistent with their own supposed characters. But the world is so WIDE. There's a lot of story to be told here, and a lot of mysteries to unravel. It's kind of disappointing because it could be amazing instead of just meh.

The narrator is not only great but her voice is just perfect for this story.

I have some minor quibbles with the framework of the story but I found so many of the individual scenes to be wonderfully and overwhelmingly emotional.

Why are we still writing stories where the fifth grade boy shows his adoration by kicking the girl?

Seriously.

If it weren't for that trope, this would be a very good YA.

Except for where the narrator sacrificed understandability for textual accuracy, damn this was good. The story is complete in this one book but I would love to listen more in this world.

I thought the reason this “story” makes no sense was due to a bad translation but after looking at other reviews, that just seems to be the incoherent nonsensical meaningless story that HCA was telling. That's really disappointing.

https://www.tor.com/2016/06/23/fairy-tale-subversion-hans-christian-andersens-the-snow-queen/

Very enjoyable. I was initially very confused by the changes in the cast of characters - don't let that put you off.

Emotionally satisfying. I have enjoyed the ways the world is almost a trope that Taylor subverts each time.

At the end, I have a few quibbles. First off, the fourth book is missing and largely jammed in here in ways that stuck out. The whole Eliza angle should have been introduced around the same time Razgut showed up in earlier books. Why present the idea that the Stellians are blood drinkers and then never address it again? Lastly, ending with Karou instead of with newer successes felt less impactful - something more like Melanie Rawn did with the Dragon Prince series.

For someone involved with bringing down the Mafia, Comey ends up being hopelessly naive when dealing with Mafia-wannabe Trump. Then there is his bizarre over-thinking that led to the last minute Clinton email curfuffle. I end up feeling conflicted, like I should feel sorry cuz this guy played himself by trying to figure out what other folks were gonna do - and was wrong.

I didn't expect to really like this one. But then I “unintentionally” listened to half the book in one sitting. Ha! I put the audio on while I was driving with my 8 year old - the next day she asked if I could put the story back on.

I really only had the one point where I wished the story went a different direction, but that'd be spoilers, so...

I won't have any real complaints... I did enjoy the story but it didn't really resonate with me the way I wish it had.

I listened to the version read by Kate Mulgrew. She was fantastic.

Many of the suggestions provided are utterly out of reach of lower middle class families.

I think this might have been excellent if I'd read it on paper. As an audiobook, I was just lost. I couldn't keep track of who was who under the changing names. :(

I wish this was a little less literary and a little more clinical.

I didn't realize this wasn't a fantasy, so I kept waiting for a twist that never came. (Almost like the first Game of Thrones.) Despite my disappointment that no one turned into dragons, this was a well put together historical romance.

Around halfway through, I realized I was getting annoyed because everything was happening soooo slowly. I eventually forced myself to finish listening, but I'm not going to keep going with the rest of the series. The ideas seem cool, but the pacing is just too aggravating for me.

No offense, Mr narrator, but your voice was almost enough to make me quit as soon as you started mumbling sounds.

I'm glad I didn't though. The majority of the story is read by the other narrator (wonderful) and gets more compelling as it goes.

Such a weird and ominous story. I definitely enjoyed it better with the narrator than I did when I read it to myself.

A strange little book with a strange protagonist with a strangely desirable penis.

I'd guessed one of the two big reveals, because, of course it just had to be that. The “hacking” wasn't much different than magic, but the author did a really good job of giving depth to her characters.

“Oh! I didn't see that coming.” - me,

Despite the anachronistic treatment of women, this really is a great example of the way genre can be used to simultaneously push a particular framework while telling a moving story. There's a lot of heavy preaching here, but at the end I had that fantastic gulp of sadness when I have to leave the fictional world behind.

Also, I'm REALLY interested in how my beloved [redacted] can be so influenced by this book without getting whiplash over how blasphemous it is to their faith!

Weird. I'm not sure if Brazile is a reliable narrator in her own story. What she had to say doesn't quite line up with anything I saw reported and sometimes not even with her own implications.

Had a tough time deciding to finish. Bad things are happening and it's the child, of course.

Boy, it sure is telling when Bannon comes out the hero of the tale. And that's a vile taste.