Mr Fred
Remarkable. In the beginning, the book made it hard for me to take the characters seriously, because the author spent a lot of effort describing the main character's horniness and obviously fake dislike for her "chiseled" love interest, and it felt very extra to me in the same way that porn often has the most preposterous plot line obviously pushed away by the action that's about to happen.
But as the book went on the characters filled with meaning, the dragons became relatable and empathizing with the good guys became really easy as the action started to heat up.
I ended up really enjoying this one.
Interesting, well written, at times even half way between touching and depressing. I can recommend it.
Deep, complex, dramatic, and full of history that Norway would likely rather forget about nowadays. Recommended!
Decent book. The minds of the killers are expectedly full of strange and absurd thoughts. That their lives never actively cross was disappointing, but fair enough. Overall I would have wished for a little bit less raw violence and a little not more of a plot, but perhaps that was never the point of the story in the first place. Journaling the path of the protagonists in its absurdity and pointlessness is successful.
Lighthearted silly little stories that are grotesque enough not to bore an adult reader. Splendid!
Pretty entertaining and not as “cringe” as I thought it might be, given the title and the target audience.
An outstanding book. The time travel motif makes for a tremendously complicated plotline, but the author brings it together in an exciting, engaging story that I had a hard time putting down.
Slight downsides are that the reader has to suspend their disbelief so far that at times the author simply has to explain a lot rather than show it. Finally, some of the commentary about the future turned out a lot more cheesy than entertaining, which is unfortunate.
All in all, a great book though. Recommended!
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
What a remarkable first book from this author. If you like adrenaline-fueled spy stories, David against Goliath, this book is for you. As always, it required a very heavy dose of suspending disbelief (Delphi and the things it does make no sense, sorry), but when you immerse yourself fully you can't help but root for Sam from the first to the very last page.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
A nice story but a little blander than usual. Who is the mystery patient? Why does he never speak? Why do the other vampires not know him at all? No answers to all of these questions.
So this was an interesting one. I felt like the book gave a lot away early on that made me fear the rest of the chapters would bore me by slowly exposing to the characters what I already knew. And yet, it managed to keep the pressure high and accelerate further and further until the end. Sure, there were plot holes the size of a lesser populated Pacific island, but if you suspend disbelief for a little while, I say it's still a good crime series and I'll probably read the sequel soon.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
A good primer on all things kink, mostly for people who are a little overwhelmed by it all, but even advanced readers will likely find a thing or two they can learn from. I know I did.
An outstanding book zooming in on various advanced techniques and categories of power exchange. I enjoyed the level of detail and consideration given to each, and the empowering messages directed at both the dominant and submissive partners. Fulmen understands that both sides of the slash, when approached with sufficient depth, are places of tremendous vulnerability, but also deep opportunities for fulfillment and liberation and therefore worthy of courageous exploration despite what others might say or think or prescribe. I also like that he points out common pitfalls with nuance and empathy, some of which I wish I had read about in the past before I stumbled over them myself. Alas.
Short and sweet, a good and comprehensive view on service submission, its motivations, expressions, and facets.
It is great to see how much nuance there is to the topic, and how easy it is to pull from the many options described here, to assemble a very individual flavor of service.
No matter your type of relationships, if there's a power dynamic to them, and if you'd like any flavor of service to be part of that equation, this is a good book to read, and reference to keep going back to later.
Pretty interesting, if not a little long and, at times, confusing. Also, as expected, the book is full of casual violence, so if you're sensitive to that, this is not for you.
Omg, what a great book. One childhood memory after another - and alas, all mixed in with the bitter taste of late stage capitalism and ecological decay.
I'll remember this one for a long time.
A surprising amount of needing to suspend disbelief, and unfortunately Reacher remains a pretty shallow character in this first novel. Of course, there's more than a dozen more books for that to change. All in all a solid start to the series.