Style: Fiction
The Other Valley – Scott Alexander Howard
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The story starts off slow and a bit sad as we follow 16-year-old Odile who is a lonely girl after her only friend moved to a different part of town. Her life starts to look up as she is befriended by Alain and Edme, but she also learns a secret by accident, one of them
Limit of Vision – Linda Nagata
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This book explores the evolution of human-kind as the combine with LOV’s, artificial brains designed by humans, in what at times appears to be a race to “beat” AI and at times feels like a slapped together concept that never really lands. For me the book felt rushed most of the time, like there was
Wildwood Imperium – Colin Meloy
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This is the third book in the Wildwood Chronicles and we pickup shortly after the events of the third book where Prue and the residents of Wildwood banded together to thwart the plans of the former Queen. Well a young girl dabbling in magic she doesn’t understand ends up reawakening her as a living ivy
Onyx Storm – Rebecca Yarros
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This book is much slower for the first 2/3rds than the first two are. The world now knows about the real fight against Venin, and has some type of truce between formerly warring nations to push back the true enemy of all life, the Venin who steal magic directly from your body or the earth.
Iron Flame – Rebecca Yarros
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Iron Flame continues from the cliff hanger in Fourth Wing, with Violet coming to grips that her brother is in fact alive and the love of her life is leading a revolution because society has been deceived about the truth of the war they’re fighting. At times Violet feels a bit off in this book
Wind and Truth – Brandon Sanderson
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The Fifth instalment of Sanderson’s Stormlight archive starts to reach further beyond Roshar and bring the full Cosmere into the folds of this story. At over 1300 pages, I’ve spent quite a while working through this and it never felt like a slog. I’d still say the first few books were my favourite as we
The Toll – Neal Shusterman
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This is the final book in the Arc of the Scythe series. Citra and Rowan have disappeared and Scythe Goddard has nothing standing in his way to his dream of unchecked killing by his new order of Scythe’s. I found the book had me on the edge of my seat, just like the whole series
Thunderhead – Neal Shusterman
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Thunderhead is the second book in the Arc of the Scythe series. This follows Anastasia as she tries to “glean” with compassion while openly challenging the new order of Scythes that want to gain more power over the world. I found the world compelling and will read through the whole series again.
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
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While this is the second time I’ve read Anxious People, it’s the first time I realized that this is the same author from A Man Called Ove, which is also an excellent read. Anxious People follows a bank robber, turned hostage taker and the people in the apartment they take hostage by accident. These people
Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros
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Rebecca Yarros weaves a story of a land at constant war viewed through the eyes of Violet. Violet always wanted to be a scribe, and in fact if you judged her by her strength, that is where she should be. Unfortunately her General mother had different plans. Violet is flung into the world of dragon
