Trey
3 stars might be unfair. It's just that this is written about an ongoing pandemic, so some things have changed like the rise of variants that change the disease in material ways.
But it IS full of interesting insight and reflection on how pandemics have played out and affected society in the past.
There's so much bullshit in these books, but the way this one ended was actually really strong.
Tory was right to reject Darius. I said what I said. All these people need to learn a lesson in consent and not to use other people as props.
But why was Darcy concerned that a cyclops would read Tory's mind about her and Lance? Their Phoenix powers are supposed to make them immune. Also, someone needs to explain why a teacher-student relationship between adults is actually THAT bad.
This is a fine book that really just didn't “click” for me. I love the premise. And I love the “conflict” between Addie and Luc. But I don't care about Henry.
It reminds me a lot of Erin Mirgenstern's books.
Libertarian Batman and Harry Dresden had a baby and the result is this testosterone addled urban fantasy.
The value of this book is as a distillation of reporting spanning the last 10+ years of US national politics. If you're looking for bombshells or new facts, then you're likely to be disappointed. But if you're looking for something that will connect the dots between the sometimes seemingly disconnected events, this is a great review of recent history.
I also appreciate that it isn't a partisan screed against Trump – although his supporters may see it that way. The author calls out Trump's strengths and abilities in plain, unapologetic language, just as he does Trump's flaws.
Anne Rice is not really my cup of tea, but suppose if the first book of hers that I read were this one, I might be more inclined to read others.
This book has very little of the overly sexualized and grotesque that appears in other books (See Tale of the Body Thief, The Witching Hour, The Wolf Gift) but it's also oddly flat in some of the characterization.
Anyway, it's fine.
This just isn't for me.
I picked it up because I've heard that this series ties together a lot of the crazy things from other books, but I just don't have it in me to continue with it. This book was enough.
I'm mostly fascinated by the storytelling concepts behind the creation of this novel, but there are a few motifs — memory, gender, the alien — that also capture the imagination
Existentialism wrote a sci-fi novel and I kinda liked it!
Seriously, I think this is one of the better approaches to time travel that I've ever seen.
Meh.
I have many thoughts about this book. There are a lot of things that I really love about it. So many of the characters are really brilliant. And it's very well plotted, I think.
But it's so long. So. Very. Long.
And it ends without a real resolution. So, I guess to get the ending, I will have to keep reading the series. I doubt I will do that any time soon.
Total cop out on the resolution.
Also, please do not take this for an accurate representation of IVF and gestational carriers.
Most of these are solid and a few are really exceptional. They're all thought-provoking in the way sci-fi should be.
I enjoyed all three of the books in this series quite a lot, but this is, in my opinion, the best of the three. It's tense and exciting. And it's the kind of mystery that – with the right knowledge and careful observation – you might be able to solve on your own.
But I was completely surprised.
SO FUN!!