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Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of …
A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green …
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's …
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest …
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San …
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children …
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and …
I loved all of these books in their own ways, but this may have been my favorite. Jack is such a good character, and there were a lot of good Kade moments, and it was dark and messy and good.
I am worried
Picked this back up, and it continues to be fascinating and unfathomably large in scope, this last half has been somewhat slower-paced, almost contemplative at times. Two parts to go, very interested to see how this all wraps up!
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity …
Content warning more major spoilers, more predictions
Okay yep, that didn't take long: "I can go home. I really can..." but you're not gonna, you big lug, because you're in brokenhearted love with your platonic space crab engineer boyfriend and given a second chance at being selfless and sacrificing yourself for the greater good, this time for a planet of aliens that are unimaginably different from you (but also so much the same that you're in love with one), of course you're gonna run headlong to your death.
Still 50/50 on magically having the cake and eating it too, I don't trust that Weir has it in him to actually kill the dude off. Survival half is split into a 25/25 between going back to Earth vs permanent space suit and living out the rest of his days in crabville. "Rocky, you're a genius!" with a big sobby xenonite-bubble hug in either case tho.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity …
Content warning big late plot spoilers, profanity, predictions
Oh damn!! Unexpected 11th-hour crisis! Quite literally, in fact, if this book was twelve hours long it would be 11:16 right now.
Sitting outside the coffee shop and literally said out loud "you bastard, you're gonna go save Rocky aren't you?"
So there's my call: the magnificent big-hearted cowardly astronaut jettisons the meticulously-reconstructed beetles to earth, and then ends up on a new suicide mission to save Rocky. With 50 of my 900 ebook pages to do it???
Side bet: I'm 50/50 on if he and Rocky find some new miraculous way to still get him home.
Maybe he just signals with Checkov's Morse Code, and Rocky sees it because he's also missing his buddy...but for arc and character development, re-engaging the suicide mission seems more likely.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity …
This is very much in the same tone/style as the Martian, which is to say it's engaging and interesting and cloyingly dudeish. It just balances out to worthwhile for me, but if you thought The Martian was annoying this will not be an improvement!
Fun worldbuilding though, good aliens, all that.