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boum

boum@bookrastinating.com

Joined 2 years, 6 months ago

Glutton reader. Mostly fiction, esp. fantasy, horror, crime and SF.

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finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Hardcover, 2015, Tor)

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find …

It was mostly good. Hard SF, very far future post-catastrophic (not a spoiler, it’s the first chapter), with unreliable narrators so some Clarke 3rd law points of view from them.

Biggest grip is the beginning, and the end 😓. Both feel less polished than most of the book.

reviewed The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #3)

John Scalzi: The Last Emperox (EBook, 2020, Tom Doherty Associates)

Entire star systems, and billions of people, are about to be stranded. The pathways that …

a nice space opera trilogy

i still had a lot of difficulty to care for the characters. i was more hooked on the first book but i went on because i wanted to know where it was going.

also i like scalzi’s writing and it helps

Kim Stanley Robinson: Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)

actually a re-read of the mars trilogy my opinion is red mars >>> green mars >>> blue mars

well, all three are filled with long, dry, descriptions of mars geography that my mind just blank on reading

narrator changes are interesting, but in the last two books it feels like it’s too often the wrong character to tell the current story