My favorite surprise in this collection of short stories is just how excellent Jemisin's dialogue can be. Many of my favorite stories were stand-alone and unrelated to the existing novel universes. This is a good read - you're in for a treat.
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boldwater reviewed How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
boldwater reviewed The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2)
could have used a stronger editor
2 stars
The women in this book might have had charachters had they been written as men. As writen, however, they represent a very large number of pages that could have been cut from the book with only positive effect. This may have been the first time I wished than an author would skip writing women.
The other part of this book that concerned me was its lack of creativity. The plot relies on the creativity of a number of charachters across a multi-century timespan. Unfortunately, there was but one author, whose own creativity didn't seem up to the task. What's more, the main secret throughout the book didn't need to be kept either from the reader or from other charachters at all.
The author could do better with a strong editor and with a good bit more respect both for women and for readers' intelligence. I found this book to be …
The women in this book might have had charachters had they been written as men. As writen, however, they represent a very large number of pages that could have been cut from the book with only positive effect. This may have been the first time I wished than an author would skip writing women.
The other part of this book that concerned me was its lack of creativity. The plot relies on the creativity of a number of charachters across a multi-century timespan. Unfortunately, there was but one author, whose own creativity didn't seem up to the task. What's more, the main secret throughout the book didn't need to be kept either from the reader or from other charachters at all.
The author could do better with a strong editor and with a good bit more respect both for women and for readers' intelligence. I found this book to be a dissapointment.
boldwater rated The Three-Body Problem: 3 stars
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'Three-Body'; pinyin: sān tǐ) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu …
boldwater reviewed Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre
Insightful and disturbing
4 stars
The charchters, plot, and dialog are well written and I quite enjoyed the ideas it introduced. That said, I felt that sometimes the plot got in the way of some of the ethical and moral questions the later part of the book raised.
I would have very much enjoyed a some extrapolation on these themes towards the end of the novel. Instead, the ending seemed to be hasty and entiirely plot-driven, not giving much of any consideration to the provokative ideas that it had just introducted.
boldwater rated Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance: 4 stars
boldwater rated Swimming home: 5 stars
boldwater rated Debt: The First 5,000 Years: 5 stars
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
boldwater rated Zero to Sold: 2 stars
boldwater rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 4 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
This Is How You Lose the Time War is a 2019 science fiction epistolary novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max …