Tak! rated Rose/House: 4 stars
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a …
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Revelator by Daryl Gregory
In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains …
Tak! rated First Snow: 5 stars
Tak! commented on The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
Tak! commented on Witch King by Martha Wells
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always …
Someone asked about a copy of the Dramatis Personae for Witch King since it would be handy for audiobook readers. I'm kind of drowning in doctor appointments right now so I'm going to put it and a link to the map here: marthawells.dreamwidth.org/631012.html
Tak! commented on A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …
The #SFFBookClub selection for September 2023
Tak! rated Witch King: 4 stars
Witch King by Martha Wells
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always been Kai-Enna!
After being murdered, …
Tak! reviewed Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will …
Translation State
5 stars
Good space opera, but also packed full of text and subtext about things like identity and authority
Tak! commented on The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
(Fallout 4 voice) Larry… Larry never changes.
Tak! reviewed The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
The Beautiful Decay
5 stars
The characters have matured since Books & Bone (except Larry), and the plot has gotten more epic, but the atmosphere is still cozy and inviting.
The Beautiful Decay is living (undead) proof that gripping epic fantasy doesn't have to be grimdark.
Tak! commented on The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
Content warning spoiler (chapter 39)
This fight with Mykol and Usther and Smythe is very Resident Evil
Tak! started reading The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
Deep beneath the Dead Mountains, in a secret and sprawling necropolis that smelled of dust and carried the chill of death, a woman with colourless eyes and a long trailing gown of black lace snorted and jerked upright, knocking over the complicated array of bobbins and partially-knit lace on the table in front of her.
Tak! reviewed The First Binding by R.R. Virdi
The First Binding
1 star
This is so shamefully, outrageously derivative of The Name of the Wind that it reads like fanfiction
Tak! commented on Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood, she sought …
AKATA WOMAN, the 3rd book in THE NSIBIDI SCRIPTS SERIES, is a Lodestar Award Finalist, 😊🇳🇬🧙🏾♀️✨!
AKATA WARRIOR won the very 1st one given a few years ago, 😃. This year’s finalist list for the Lodestar is powerful. I’m proud to be on it!
Tak! commented on A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …
"Oh cool, A Half-Built Garden is up for a Utopia Award! Voting open through the end of the month: file770.com/2023-utopia-award-nominees/ "