A good read about end of the world problems in his Craft work universe, but I feel like I almost should have reread all his past stuff before reading it b/c he practically brought back every single character from anything he’s written before and I was having trouble even remembering them let alone everything they’d been through in previous works.
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heavyboots rated Some Desperate Glory: 3 stars
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea …
heavyboots reviewed Cascade Failure by L. M. Sagas
Rollicking good fun
5 stars
It kind of feels like a couple of authors in recent years have taken up the challenge of John Steakley’s amazing book Armor, and L M Sagas definitely joins them. A fierce, tight-knit crew comprised of an AI spaceship, a retired soldier and a fixit girl (both ships and humans) accidentally (or maybe not so) take on a new passenger and promptly stumble into a whole bunch of crazy intertwined mysteries while dealing with old wounds.
A great read with fun characters. Well worth the time if you like a good action story with fun heroes.
heavyboots rated Bookshops & Bonedust: 4 stars
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #0)
Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful …
heavyboots rated The Saint of Bright Doors: 4 stars
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
heavyboots rated Book of Doors: 4 stars
Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?
In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is …
heavyboots rated Butcher of the Forest: 5 stars
Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
A world-weary woman races against the clock to save two children from an enchanting but deadly forest in this dark …
heavyboots rated The Bezzle: 5 stars
The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of …
heavyboots rated The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles: 4 stars
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older (Mossa and Pleiti, #2)
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the fan-favorite cozy space opera …
heavyboots rated These Burning Stars: 5 stars
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
On a dusty backwater planet, occasional thief Jun Ironway has gotten her hands on the score of a lifetime: a …
heavyboots reviewed The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Wildly inventive and touching
5 stars
This is some crazy, crazy stuff. Starts out feeling incredibly ordinary for about 10 pages and then derails incredibly and keeps drifting deeper and deeper into stranger and stranger territory, but all the time with characters you completely empathize with and feel like you could meet on the street or at a cafe without ever realizing there was anything different about them. Gods and doorways, magic and relationships, siblings and grudges. So much detail, and all so enjoyable.
heavyboots rated Liberty's Daughter: 4 stars
Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists …
heavyboots reviewed The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
Gets more interesting in the last third
4 stars
As usual, a lot of interesting ideas as he writes yet another recipe for escaping from the current global crisis that rampant kleptocracy and corporate welfare have created.
It starts quite slowly though and I was not really feeling the main character until somewhere into the middle of the book Even then I was hating his puppy-dog adoration of this girl he has a crush on so much for at least 2/3rds of the book, but thankfully he finally starts to seem a little more cohesive as a character towards the end.
But still worth the read and the final third definitely started to pull it together and make me care not only about the characters but about the attack they managed to do against the various tactics stages by the “plutocracy”.
heavyboots rated System Collapse: 5 stars
System Collapse by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …