Enno Rehling

Tolerable. I'm not really into Steampunk, but this book doesn't dwell so much on weird technology. Also not a huge fan of zombie stories, but again, those aren't really the main focus.

As our family is struggling with the advanced age of my parents, especially my dad, this was a very poignant, thought provoking book. I admire the author's strength to go through with the journey she describes, I probably couldn't do it.

The road trip in the final chapter is very funny. The rest of the book is classic John Green, and reminded me so much of An Abundance of Catherines that I figured I knew how it would end for our hero, except it totally didn't.
Still, the sameness of these books really makes me want to take a break from reading them.

This book is really good for what it sets out to be: A YA novel by the author of The Fault In Your Stars. So if you liked that book, you'll probably like this one. As a matter of fact, I think I liked it more.

Just Lovely. Makes me want to travel again, and really get to know a city by living there for an extended time and exploring.

Very quick read, entertaining, and I can't wait for the next one.

Felt much shorter than the first book, but was still fun!

I liked this one more than the first part, and it was indeed just like those Agatha Christie stories where in the end, it turns out you were completely wrong. As was I in my previous review.

There's clearly a pattern to these books. Historians in danger of getting stuck in the past, experiencing a lack of modern medicine, and chaos back home in Oxford. Overall, the department seems to be very poorly run.
This is the first book of several set in WW2, and despite the aforementioned repetition, I'm going to read the second part to find out how it ends.

I liked this. The nameless Murderbot is a fun first person character, and I'm definitely hooked, and want to see what happens in the next books.

Classic second book, what's good about it are things that were already good about the first. As a result, took me longer to finish, or at least felt like it dragged on.

Powerful and tragic. I'm crying.

This book felt very similar to the first, and we spend a lot of time in space, where very little happens on the way to Mars. This time, rather than just having to deal with mysoginy and anxiety, our heroes encounter racism, terrorists, and personal trauma.

I particularly liked how this book humanizes Parker, who came off as an almost entirely bad guy in the first book.

I suppose I already knew all of these stories from her blog, but it was fun to read them again. Read all the things!

Walton writes very different books, you never know what you're in for, but it's always a treat. So in this book, which for the first half seems like a retelling of historical events, then takes a sharp turn and becomes a fantastic groundhog day story. Also really makes me want to see Florence, as if My Real Children hadn't done that already.

There isn't any good tea in this book. Apart from that, there's very little to complain. The main character is lovable, and somewhat naive, but you just have to wish her well from the start. The cast of side characters are great, too, my favorite being Tic, who is sometimes almost Zeiat levels of funny.

There are hardly any Radchaai in this, but we learn a lot about the Geck, who are an impossibly weird alien race, and the treaty with the Presger, hinted at in the Ancillary books, is front and center.

This book does some world-building in the Exodus fleet, which was only ever mentioned as a thing that existed in the previous books. I liked this very gentle book, following several people in the fleet, whose lives all intersect eventually. I particularly enjoyed the extended epilogue that makes sure every one of their stories has a happy ending

Not at all like the Ancillary books, but even in the genre of Fantasy, Leckie creates a world.unlike any other, and tells a gripping story of gods and their power.

I definitely got a Stranger Things vibe. Intrigued, and want to know how this develops.

It's been a few years since I read the original novel, but this graphic novel seems very short in comparison? The drawings are stark, simplified, reduced, like the life in Gilead. At times they can be too much, such as Moira's feet, which are the stuff of my nightmares now.

I have a thing for journalism comics like this. I watched Katrina on TV, and it just wasn't comprehensible, but through the eyes of these seven people, it's become a lot more vivid and personal. Makes you feel closer to what happened there.

A nice cap to a series that I have enjoyed very much, even though parallels to our current situation were sometimes painful and extremely on-the-nose.
Small niggle: I wish her father had taught Eva some human swear words, the single alien one gets old really fast.

At a time when America is operating concentration camps and moving ever more closely towards totalitarianism, this book is especially poignant. Why did tourists continue to visit a country that was so clearly uncivilized and aggressive? How did they reconciliate the politics of the country with the friendly, efficient people they met everywhere on their travels? At the same time, it's also a good recap of the events eading up to WW2 and the Holocaust, if you forgot those lessons from school, or can't entirely memorize the timeline. I'm recommending this book to everyone right now.

This is the first part in a series, and it feels somewhat incomplete. There's a conclusion still waiting to happen in the next two books. Nevertheless, the book tells a story with a beginning and an end, of international intrigue, alien artifacts, and personal relationships that's absolutely been worth reading. I saw someone make the comparison with Carl Sagan's Contact, and I think that's appropriate - if you liked Contact, you're probably going to like this book.

The first chapter almost lost me, but I'm glad I stuck it out. This book takes Clarke's third law to extremes like few other books, which can be off-putting or exciting, depending on your tastes. The world-building is reminiscent of Ancillary Justice, which remains one of my favorite books of all time. I'll definitely read the next books, and I'm tempted to give this one five stars, but it's on the edge, and probably closer to 4 than 5.