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reviewed City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky: City of Last Chances (2022, Head of Zeus)

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …

City of Last Chances

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.

commented on The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)

Tasha Suri: The Jasmine Throne (Paperback, 2021, Orbit)

Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an …

I enjoyed the setting and the characters, but I really felt like I was having to slog through it - maybe just because of my current circumstances of small slots of reading time, I'm not sure. I'll definitely check out the next installment in any case.

commented on Glimpse by Leone Ross

Leone Ross, Reynaldo Anderson: Glimpse No rating

Glimpse is the first anthology of speculative fiction by Black British writers, showcasing a variety …

reviewed A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden (EBook, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …

A Half-Built Garden

There's really a lot to like here for fans of Story of Your Life/Arrival, Becky Chambers, and/or Adrian Tchaikovsky. I particularly like this take on the nearish future of technology for communication and community decision-making.

I felt like it got a bit preachy at times around the subject of distributed consensus governance, but this is a minor, subjective nitpick.