Laura

First book I ever read in Dutch

I found it quite boring and predictable

This book is hilarious, some kind of ready player one fantasy but about infosec and hacking culture instead of videogames.

genuinely yawn

Mi ero dimenticata quanto divertenti (e splatter) fossero i libri di Ammaniti, proprio 10/10 rileggibilissimo

I absolutely loved this book, couldn't put it down! The romance is very well written, with plausible conflict, and even the supporting characters feel very well rounded. I'm a sucker for wlw romance and I'll suffer through terrible books for a nugget of gold but this one didn't require any effort at all <3 Well done Ashley Moore!

Finally a book that reaches the heights of The Music and the Mirror! This is the first book since MITM that truly made me fall in love with the characters, kept me glued to the page wondering what would happen next, where the stakes were sizeable and it was not at all obvious there'd be a happy ending. Right up my alley <3

Pretty good! Up until the point where Matt ends up trapped in the box, which is where the shark reeeeally dramatically jumps.

I wish I could give this book 6 stars! Wonderful story, funny as hell, it kept surprising me right until the end! Bonus points for Cobweb being utterly uninterested in picking a gender

:)) for the gay, :(( for the eating disorder talk

I was delighted to read this Murderbot Detective story <3 It really made my day when the pre-order unlocked!

I waited so long for this book to come out and now that I'm done I just want to read it all over again ❤️

I guess Arkady Martine's horny for architecture too huh

I'd say this book changed my life but honestly it's more the ideas of MMT that changed my life. The book is fairly US-centric but does a fair job at explaining it.

Even better than A Memory Called Empire! It took a while for me to dive back into Mahit's world, there's so many characters in this series! So many agendas and intrigue! But once arrived, being in Mahit's head felt like coming home

Made me cry, good cry and ugly cry but at least i feel much less alone now

I'm a big fan of the Coppola Comment blog and this just like the articles on the blog, was top notch! Informative and on point

And so NK Jemisin becomes the third woman, after Ann Leckie and Martha Wells, whose books I will just read no questions asked, because they are a-mazing.

This was the most infuriating book I've read in a long long time. I finished it months ago but I was to insulted to write anything about it. I'm fully aware I probably had the wrong expectations going in, but oh my god, this story is supposed to be about someone basically forced into slavery and after spending about one (1) minute contemplating the horror of it, and vaguely portraying the kind of society that made that happen, the protagonist falls in love with his captor. The book is then only interested in crafting an elaborate redemption arc for the rich asshole who's directly profiting from the slave trade in the first place, so that he and the protagonist can have their “happy ending”. All of this instead of meaningfully addressing any of the trauma, just a bunch of handwaving around the word “rape”. I read the whole thing hoping for some sort of twist or explanation, but nope. I can't believe I paid money for this.

Much better than the first book. Still littered with male gaze, but an ignorable amount of it.

God this book was boring

I should've seen this coming. Already with the first book I started out thinking “oh, historical fiction isn't really my thing”, but once again, Kaite proved me wrong! I ended up deeply fascinated by Sarah's story and circumstances, the daily struggle to be taken seriously as a woman, and in the end, even the romance plot.
Wonderful book, would recommend this series to anyone who is into historical mysteries, but especially to those who, like me, are in it for the feminism and end up googling Victorian era clothes as a side effect.

World building and characters are unique and interesting, but I wasn't quite convinced by the plot. There are some specific moments where a character will do a thing (that takes the plot in a certain direction) and I just couldn't justify it with logic or madness or anything else.

I absolutely loved this trilogy <3 I'm not a huge fantasy reader, and I was a bit skeptical coming in, but 10 pages in and I'd already fallen in love with Tremaine. These books kept me absolutely on the edge of my seat, and I burned through them as fast as I could read. Can't wait to do it again!

I was absolutely blown away by this book! I'm normally not into historical fiction, but I do like mysteries so I decided to give it a go, and couldn't put it down. It's clever, it's fun, wonderfully written and kept me glued to the page until I was done