Enno Rehling

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

Guy Delisle makes this a thrilling read, despite nothing happening for a lot of the book. Literal tears in my eyes by the end of it.

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.

No matter how many times I read these stories, I love them to bits. So real, so funny, so very British.

This entire series was outstanding, and the third book a fitting finale. I'm sorry there can't be any more after this.

This novella is short, and not driving the main story arc forward, but entertaining nevertheless.

I didn't know what to expect from a prequel book that tells the story of Jack and Jill, but this was beautiful.

This book made me laugh out loud many times. The writing is witty,and the stories are ones that I could have and often have) experienced myself. I grew up in this same time period, experienced the rise of the PC and then the internet and web, had jobs in startups, and made friends all over the world thanks to the fickle magic of technology.

more wonderful world-building, and an exciting adventure that make me want to check out the pen and paper rpg. I particularly liked the addition of the hares, and the portraial of their relationship with the mice.

i made it this far into the series, only to find out I didn't actually like it, and quit not even halfway through the last book. boring!

“Thoreau was an amateur” says Christopher Knight, who lived alone in the forests of Maine for 27 years, and I must agree. To remove yourself so thoroughly from society is a strange achievement, and it's more real for all that the world that Knight shunned is so much more like my own than that of Walden. Very well researched and thoughtful book about a true stoic.

Maybe it's because I read it in fits and starts, but I found it difficult to follow the story. The art is great, and I've got the second book lined up already, hoping to read it with more focus.

This is peak Bad Machinery, my favorite of the cases. Lottie trying to break all the pool rules, Mildred's impossible love, and a story about selkies that rivals the Tomm Moore movie.

A lot of my friends have had their first child last year, and after reading this book, my respect for mothers has grown immensely.

This is one of those rare situations where I enjoy the TV show more than the comic it was based on, even though they are so close to each other. I guess that speaks to the quality of the actors?

Not all stories about Holmes are equally good. The artwork is fine, but the story doesn't hold up for me.

Several short stories set in Usagi's Japan. I enjoyed “Showdown” which is a retelling of Kurosawa's “Yojimbo” involving Gen, whose heart is bigger than he lets on, but my favorite was “Kitsune's Tale”, where we get to hear the origin story of Usagi's friend, the clever thief.

A strange book, once again very different from any of her previous ones I've read. As always, it was beautifully written, but at first decidedly harder for me to get into than Lent (which I adored). Walton clearly loves Florence and the Renaissance, and has me curious about both of them.

This book brings back two of my favorite characters, Gen and Ino, and I have no complaints.

Inspector Ishida is a great new character, I hope we see more of him in the future.

This was fun. Mur takes cloning to another level, spins a murder mystery, and we end up with And Then There Were None In Space. Loved every minute of it.

Sometimes, between all the post-apocalyptical stories, I need to read something that's just good fun. This book is that! I liked the characters, their different struggles and cultures. The overall story is a bit thin, and the book is almost a picaresque, as the title implies, there's a lot of traveling going on.

I like this type of book, I'm practically the target audience. Trivia, travel, odd places with a strange history? Sign me up. And yet, there's too little of everything. A single picture and a few paragraphs of text, but most of all, no rhyme or reason to why these places were picked out of the many that there are in the world, and no common thread to connect them all. I managed to get bored towards the end.

This is the first book in the series that I didn't finish. Spoilers: I miss the good old days of the Rocinante flying around the universe, new characters being introduced, and Avasarala being a scheming badass. 30 years later, no new characters have shown up, we're stuck on a station hiding like rats, and I can already tell that the book isn't going to wrap everything up in the end. I may give it another try if people tell me that the next book is great, but for now, it goes back on the shelf.

Would you destroy the world to create a better one? This book was great, with all of it's twists and turns, even though the wonderful world-building of the Utopia in the first book gets undone, and by the end of it, my sincere hope is that the third book will actually build something better.