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With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period …
A friend said this was poetic, although I don't quite remember if they said it was reminiscent of She Who Became The Sun.
A friend said this was poetic, although I don't quite remember if they said it was reminiscent of She Who Became The Sun.
I am reading with friends.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with …
I forgot to avail myself of a library recently so time to return to my bought backlog.
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she …
Looks fun, has a Tamsyn Muir endorsement on the cover.
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few …
Recommended by a friend due to worldbuilding and mysteries.
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home …
Recommended by a friend due to a good protagonist.
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by …
Found a review of this in project research, looks fun.
Someone artsy quoted this author and then my friends all chimed in to say they wanted to read this book.
A fine book, but I didn't really like a lot of the characters.
A fine book, but I didn't really like a lot of the characters.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Portuguese: Pedagogia do Oprimido) is a book by Brazilian educator Paulo …
It's probably about time I read more actual philosophy.
It's probably about time I read more actual philosophy.
Foz Meadows described this as an excellent domestic space opera, and it looks interesting.
"2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at a critical low and …
I hear it's like Ancillary Justice, but about Japan.
I hear it's like Ancillary Justice, but about Japan.
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
... and it's short enough that they could. This is like the science fiction novella equivalent of Phil Kaye's 'If You Get Everything Done'.
... and it's short enough that they could. This is like the science fiction novella equivalent of Phil Kaye's 'If You Get Everything Done'.
My name is Kvothe.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I …
Let's start with some good points: the plot and pacing are engaging, the currencies and magic systems are worked out excellently, and the narration and frame narrative complement each other. I genuinely enjoyed reading it. But good grief is it male-gazey. Every women is introduced as physically beautiful, and most are in some way enamoured with the male protagonist. The double-edged respite is that the story doesn't include many women. sigh I found my enjoyment improved tenfold whenever I ignored the author's decision to make a character masculine. Honestly most of those choices of gender were just pointless and detracting on the author's part — why only men? Rothfuss' is a world I would abhor to live in. The author tries to get as much mileage as possible out of every interesting word; he does this by repeating that interesting word a couple chapters later, as if scared it'll slip …
Let's start with some good points: the plot and pacing are engaging, the currencies and magic systems are worked out excellently, and the narration and frame narrative complement each other. I genuinely enjoyed reading it. But good grief is it male-gazey. Every women is introduced as physically beautiful, and most are in some way enamoured with the male protagonist. The double-edged respite is that the story doesn't include many women. sigh I found my enjoyment improved tenfold whenever I ignored the author's decision to make a character masculine. Honestly most of those choices of gender were just pointless and detracting on the author's part — why only men? Rothfuss' is a world I would abhor to live in. The author tries to get as much mileage as possible out of every interesting word; he does this by repeating that interesting word a couple chapters later, as if scared it'll slip back into the thesaurus if he doesn't use it again quickly. All this to say, the writing style is a little uninspired. My edition also had spelling mistakes. (Several.) So while the detailed magic system, economy and systems of measurement are rare — exceptional — in a book, perhaps the author had more pressing aspects of this novel he should have devoted attention to instead.
