Rereading this book a few years later, aiming for a self-care weekend. What was I thinking, giving this book five stars? It's insipid and while I do remember the story radical changing, I don't see slogging through this first book to get there.
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Fjordic rated The Captain: 3 stars
Fjordic rated Into the Mist: 4 stars
Fjordic rated Arm of the Sphinx: 4 stars
Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft (Books of Babel, #2)
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Unsouled by Will Wight (Cradle, #1)
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Fjordic rated Work Rules!: 4 stars
Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock
"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should …
Fjordic rated Senlin Ascends: 5 stars
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft, Josiah D Bancroft, Leino M Ian (The Books of Babel, #1)
"The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel of the Silk Age. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds …
Fjordic rated Can't Spell Treason Without Tea: 2 stars
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, …
Fjordic rated The Buried Giant: 2 stars
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.The novel …
Captivate by Vanessa van Edwards
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
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Fjordic rated What Moves the Dead: 4 stars
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling …
Fjordic rated It'll Be an Adventure: 4 stars
Fjordic rated The Steerswoman: 5 stars
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an …