Reviews and Comments

An immaculately crafted and written mystery. Bewildering in a good way, so a hearty recommendation to anyone who likes to piece things together. I would have enjoyed a bit more attention to heartfelt character relationships. The tone and worldbuilding are both well done. If I had to describe the writing: one sentence will be casual character thoughts, then the next will be pure poetry, replete of words you don't quite recognise. And the one after that be a dad joke. Quite meta-modern. Inventive. I will now join the choir of readers recommending this series.

This is not nagging me to be read, but the first in the series was good enough to merit looking into its sequel when I have time.

This is putedly good.

This series has been the subject of multiple recommendations.

Good scientific underpinning. Calm and slow.

It's not bad, but I find it slow wanting to read in both languages. I will say the Spanish is much more beautiful than the English, but the latter is easier for my eyes.

Recommended to me as a way into category theory as it applies to logic.

This book was recommended to me as a way into how people use topology for logic without needing to muddle through all that set theory.

These stories are indescribably beautiful, I say, describing them in the only way I can. They put the heart back into science fiction.

Samatar describes only the parts of her worlds that matter. You won't catch her wasting words explaining what powers the spaceships. When a story finishes, you won't necessarily understand the state of the world, but painted with memories and interactions, you'll feel to your bones how much the main character longs for something their world will never provide.

Beautifully written, Frankenstein opens very well. Towards the latter half the plot turns into Victor being sad and everything happens just as you'd expect it to, which lost my interest a little.

Jennings' poems are the work of a perfectionist, but not one who views her work as more important than herself. Her poems are definitely an expression of Jennings' struggles with her doubts, fears, loves, and most importantly with her depression and imprisonment in various mental asylums.
Jennings has clearly chosen her every word extremely carefully, to do what poetry does best: expose the poet's emotion.