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
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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 (Imperial Radch)
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always …
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 (Tombtown, #2)
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 (Tombtown, #2)
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 (Tombtown, #2)
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 (Tombtown, #2)
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 (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)
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/ "
Tak! reviewed A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White (The Salvagers, #1)
Furious and fun, the first book in this bold, new science fiction adventure series follows …
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
3 stars
A not particularly deep, but fun action adventure romp - it feels a bit like a space opera version of Tales of the Ketty Jay
Tak! commented on Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
The #SFFBookClub selection for June 2023
Tak! wants to read The First Binding by R.R. Virdi
Tor recommended this for bards, so here I go…
Tak! rated The Babylon Eye: 5 stars
The Babylon Eye by Masha du Toit (Linked Worlds, #1)
Elke Veraart is in prison. She used to be an eco-terrorist, hunting down poachers to protect endangered species. Now she’s …
Tak! rated Unnatural Magic: 5 stars
Unnatural Magic by C. M. Waggoner
Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But …