Style: Fiction
All Systems Red – Martha Wells
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I’d heard about this series for a while but didn’t really know what it was about until I watched the Apple TV season and it was excellent there. So I put the book on hold at my library and got it yesterday and it did not disappoint. We follow Murderbot as he realizes he has
The Ascendants – Jazza Brooks
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This is the debut novel from Jazza Brooks, better known for his YouTube art channel, which is where I found this book during his build of the main evil in the book a gidaanawe. We start on a mining planet serving the Edictum who in turn serve the will of the Zenitharch, a mystical force
Among the Burning Flowers – Samantha Shannon
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This is the prequel to both A Day of Fallen Night and Priory of the Orange Tree and while the story is good, I’d say it’s only worth reading if you’ve read both the other books and want to dig more into the history of the world that the author has built. Here we follow
Drinking the Ocean – Saad Omar Khan
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Drinking the Ocean follows Murad and Sofi as their lives intertwine, where one loves the other romantically and it’s only returned in the type of love that a sibling would receive. We follow this story first from the future as Murad sees Sofi on the TTC and then we venture back into history to see
Artemis – Andy Weir
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In this book we follow Jasmine (Jazz) on the Artemis colony on the Moon. She’s a smuggler and generally gets up to shenanigans involving smuggling and in this book some sabotage. While I loved The Martian and Hail Mary, this book wasn’t one I loved. I even read it a second time now, first read
My Friends – Fredrik Backman
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Fredrik Backman does it again, serving readers a tragic but also uplifting tail that brought me to tears. This was by far the one I thought was going to end in all tragedy, but had a strong light at the end of the tunnel as community was formed in the midst and via the heart
The Prison Healer – Lynette Noni
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Here we meet Kiva, who was taken to prison because her father was seen near a rebel. After her father dies in prison Kiva becomes an assistant healer and then takes her father’s place as a healer in the notorious Zalindov prison, which is used by all the countries around as a place to send
The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
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This book started off slow and while it sped up a bit, it was never a breakneck paced science fiction thriller. It’s firmly a character driven story that has some science fiction as a background to how the characters come to interact. The final few chapters do suddenly increase in pace as a bunch of
A Witch’s Sin – Daniel B Greene
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Welcome to a world of technology embedded in your body, where ads can blare at you at any time and an open window means you’ve granted permission for a drone to broadcast further ads into your personal living space. In this world we meet Taya, and learn that there are honest to goodness vampires. Taya
Temeraire – Naomi Novik
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While this book was recommended to me (from a source I can’t remember) as an excellent fantasy novel that added dragons to the war between Britain and France during Napoleon’s time, I can’t continue that recommendation. The book is decently written if you want multiple pages on the etiquite difference between the Navy and the
