Tak! commented on The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, #4)
"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge …
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Tak! commented on Magician's Gambit by David Eddings (The Belgariad, #3)
Magician's Gambit is the third part of The Belgariad, a fantasy book series written by …
Content warning mild setting spoiler
What a surprise that the only woman wizard is also the only one who doesn't have a wizard's tower
Tak! reviewed Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings (The Belgariad, #2)
Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb …
Queen of Sorcery
4 stars
Finally, something is starting to happen - he just needed a few hundred pages to get going. He seems fascinated with the trope "all-woman/woman-dominated culture that (forcibly) uses visiting men for its own (sexual) purposes".
Tak! rated Pawn of Prophecy: 3 stars
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (The Belgariad, #1)
The first novel in David Edding's Belgariad series, Pawn of Prophecy examines the transformation of Garion from a farm boy …
Tak! commented on Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (The Belgariad, #1)
The first novel in David Edding's Belgariad series, Pawn of Prophecy examines the transformation of …
There's definitely a certain feeling to opening a new fantasy book and seeing a densely illustrated map
Tak! rated China Mountain Zhang: 4 stars
Tak! reviewed The core of the sun by Johanna Sinisalo
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds …
The Core of the Sun
5 stars
It definitely lives up to the expectation engendered (haha) by the blurb.
There are obvious parallels with e.g. The Handmaid's Tale, but the chili angle is amazing, and somehow enhances the extreme Finnishness of the whole thing.
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Tak! commented on The core of the sun by Johanna Sinisalo
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds …
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Tak! reviewed The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
The Angel of the Crows
3 stars
An eccentric genius and an army doctor recently returned from the Afghanistan war solve crimes from their Baker Street apartment in Victorian London: supernatural edition.
Well-written, with lots of nods to the original source, yet plenty of original twists.
Tak! commented on The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
How authors flex:
"I'd like to thank my readers, (list of noted fantasy authors)…"
Tak! reviewed Machinehood by S. B. Divya
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client …
Machinehood
4 stars
Some thought provocation on free will, consciousness, transhumanity/posthumanity, (general) artificial intelligence, and nonviolence vs. passive violence via inaction
Tak! reviewed Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world.
It’s …
Ogres
4 stars
An all-too plausible take on the future of economic disparity. The last few pages really made this one for me.
Tak! wants to read The core of the sun by Johanna Sinisalo
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds …
This comment sold me:
The Core of the Sun further cements Johanna Sinisalo’s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country’s unique take on it, dubbed “Finnish weird.”
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful rumination on biotechnology, destiny, and …
Tak! wants to read The Widow Queen by Elżbieta Cherezińska (The Bold, #1)
The bold one, they call her—too bold for most.
To her father, the great …