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Tyler

tyler@bookrastinating.com

Joined 2 years, 10 months ago

Mainly Sci-Fi, some Fantasy and similar. Almost always audiobooks.

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reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor.com)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring …

Murderbot

Decided to reread Murderbot diaries due to finding the @murderbotbot@botsin.space account. I've really missed good dark humor.

reviewed He Who Fights With Monsters 9 by Shirtaloon (He Who Fights With Monsters, #9)

Shirtaloon: He Who Fights With Monsters 9

Back to good old fashioned adventuring

It felt like this book returned to its roots of adventuring. Though the story has departed from being underpowered and fighting overpowered enemies to being overpowered.

Kevin Hearne: A blight of blackwings (Hardcover, 2020, Del Rey)

A Blight of Blackwings

I liked this the same as the first book in the series. A lot more comfortable to read now that I have a handle on the characters and general plot direction from the first book. There are new characters, but they're all reasonably connected now. It's a nice comfortable pace too, kept me interested and guessing what would happen next.

reviewed A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne (Seven Kennings, #1)

Kevin Hearne: A Plague of Giants (2017)

MOTHER AND WARRIOR Tallynd is a soldier who has already survived her toughest battle: losing …

A Plague of Giants

I loved Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series, and when this book was released, I'm not sure what I read or heard, but I was turned off of it. When I heard of a third book in this series being released, I took a look another look at it.

I found it quite enjoyable, though it was a little rough to follow so many characters, each with their own widely varying cultures right out of the gate. The framing of the story (as told by a bard) was an interesting perspective, I liked it. I expected an epilogue, as I found the story ended quickly, and left a bunch of loose ends (though there are two more books..)