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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.
Another that caught my eye in the comic shop to look up
Just saw this on the comic store sale shelf, gonna look it up
A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in …
I didn't notice the page count, so this ended sooner than Iwas expecting! It was an interesting narrative arc.
There have already been a lot of VERY good faces
It takes an AI to catch an AI in Chaos on CatNet, the follow-up to …
I read the first 200 pages of this tonight and am only stopping because it's 1am and there was a barely-acceptable place to do so. It is good!! I teared up a couple times already, there are MORE baby lesbians with uhhhhh we'll say complicated family situations and people are doing so many THINGS and they all have REASONS, some of the reasons are bad and some are good and some are complicated but they all make SENSE and that is SCARY and I love these books.
Wow. Wow. I just finished this in a bakery and cried about it nonetheless. Beautiful and difficult and powerful. I echo both blurbs on the back, especially Maia's: I'm so glad she had healed to the point that writing this book was possible.
Phew, this book is heavy and good.
USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to …
OH MY GOD I just let out the most unholy guffaw. Like this whole book is great but if was written for the express purpose of this one line I wouldn't even be mad. Masterful, totally didn't see it coming, hit me like a cylinder of nitrous to the face. 😂
Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn't lived anyplace longer than six …
Okay shit has very hit the fan and damn I am very much hooked, I don't know what I expected from this book but this is so much more!