Style: Fiction
Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
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This is the oldest book in Brandon Sanderson’s writing that I’ve read, being published first in 2005. As such I found a few parts of the writing clearly still in development. Unlike other more current books, I was easily able to guess where the author was going early in the book. This didn’t diminish my…
Translation State – Ann Leckie
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Translation state takes a look at what it means to be human, and in this case, what it means to belong somewhere. We start meeting our 3 main characters, Enae, Reet and Qven and slowly are exposed to how they don’t belong in the place that they exist. For Qven specifically we see how they’ve…
The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
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Sure it’s an interesting idea, but I’m not sure if it’s the translation or the original writing…I just didn’t like it. The most interesting thing was the protein folding idea for turning things into a super-computer and how it related to the countdown seen in images and retina, but those few pages weren’t enough for…
Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
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Welcome to a land of magic and gods that sometimes walk among humans, at the very least they spend a bunch of energy influencing human affairs to their liking. We start by joining the Malazan Empire’s forces as they are decimated in at the city of Pale by the Moon King, but we quickly learn…
Liberty’s Daughter – Naomi Kritzer
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Liberty’s Daughter is about Beck Garrison, a teenager living on a libertarian seastead which is part of a collection of seasteads with varying rules. Some have no rules at all, so drugs are openly manufactured and children can buy them, or you can chain your workers to a table and force them to handle toxic…
The Sunlit Man – Brandon Sanderson
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This is the final book in the 4 books Brandon Sanderson wrote in “secret” during the COVID 19 pandemic. In this one we follow Nomad who has skipped to a world that has such intense sun that it scorches the entire landscape on every rotation. Mountains form, and disappear. Plants grow in a matter of…
Beneath the God’s Tree – S Kaeth
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This was me second visit to S Kaeth’s fantasy world, the first being Between Starfalls. I again found the world interesting and the story generally well written. If I have any critisim of the book it would be around some of the dialogue. Specifically some of the dialogue between Taunos and Amanah as they’re figuring…
The Alloy of Law – Brandon Sanderson
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This is the first book in the Wax and Wayne saga, and starts 300 years after the events of the original Mistborn trilogy. After years spent in the Roughs, Wax has to head back because his sister is missing and being a detective he feels family duty calling to finally step into his role as…
The Book of Three – Lloyd Alexander
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The Book of Three is a classic fantasy adventure where we follow Taran the assistant pig-keeper as he joins a party trying to stop the evil warlord. Taran ends up being far more valuable than first anticipated. This book may be best for younger readers, but I still enjoyed the story as the world is…
Changer – Matt Gemmell
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While I’ve enjoyed Matt’s writing online on his site, and even a bunch of his short stories, this book didn’t do it for me. In fact, I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the book. I made it about 15% in and then the dialogue was so cliche and the scenarios involved so unbelievable that…
