Tak! commented on The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, …
The March 2023 #SFFBookClub selection
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Tak! wants to read Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus (Astra Black, #1)
Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the struggles …
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Tak! reviewed Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, …
Children of Memory
4 stars
Content warning plot arc metaspoilers maybe? also for Nona the Ninth
This one took me on a very Nona the Ninth-like journey, from "I am following the plot and know what is going on" to "I am no longer following the plot, what the hell is going on" to "Wow, I did not see that coming"
Tak! commented on Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, …
What the hell is going on?!
Tak! commented on Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older (The Centenal Cycle, #1)
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
Content warning discussion of character traits, addiction
I think it didn't sink in on my first readthrough that Mishima's fondness for narrative content was framed as a shameful addiction.
I wonder if this is meant to be a comment on the popular view that fiction is idle, time-wasting escapism, while nonfiction is educational and productive.
I also found that the author subsequently wrote a short story on the topic.
Tak! commented on Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older (The Centenal Cycle, #1)
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
The SFFBookClub selection for February 2023
Tak! rated A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking: 5 stars
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her …
Tak! reviewed The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she …
The Twisted Ones
5 stars
This is the best/worst book to have just gotten into when a bout of insomnia strikes, so you can lie reading in a dark, silent house while the level of creepiness steadily builds, and something outside makes a tok-tok-tok noise
Tak! reviewed The Thousand Eyes by A. K. Larkwood (The Serpent Gates, #2)
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
The Thousand Eyes
5 stars
This is one of those books I finished with a profound sigh and a feeling of loss
Tak! commented on Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older (The Centenal Cycle, #1)
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
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Afterland by Lauren Beukes
Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life …
Tak! reviewed What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, …
What Moves the Dead
4 stars
I'm sure I read The Fall of the House of Usher at some point, but I didn't retain enough that I had any particular expectations for the direction of the plot, etc.
However, I did read Mexican Gothic relatively recently, so I spent a good deal of What Moves the Dead, once the overall shape of the story became apparent, nodding along and waiting for the characters to catch up - it gave me a chuckle to see the reference to Mexican Gothic in the author's note.
Great writing, an intriguing reimagination of the classic.
Tak! reviewed City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …
City of Last Chances
4 stars
There were a lot of scenes I loved, and the sequence in the beginning where the narrative is passed along a chain of serially coinciding characters is wonderful. When I read the reunion near the end, I literally exclaimed "Hahaha, yes!" As a whole, it felt a touch rambly, but I have no regrets. One area where Tchaikovsky excels is departing from (or maybe just ignoring?) genre tropes, and this is no exception.
Tak! commented on City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …
Ahahaha, yes! YES!!!
Tak! wants to read The Thousand Eyes by A. K. Larkwood (The Serpent Gates, #2)
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
This has been out for almost a year and nobody told me