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Category: On the Radar

  • Review: Bound

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    Bound by Benedict Jacka My rating: 4 of 5 stars Oh Alex, what fate is woven for you and your friends. These are such fun books. I needed a break in some science-fiction so I dove into the newly released Verus novel. One of those books you can just siphon down because it’s easy reading,…

  • Review: Surface Detail

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    Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book made me grin. Maybe it’s the warmonger-spacep0rn-battle-boy in me. When you have a warship, Abominator class, named “Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints,” gets involved, and giddy, as the book culminates due to seeing action. I just smiled and smiled. Getting…

  • Review: Excession

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    Excession by Iain M. Banks My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book tickled my fancy. What a strange universe. War footed aliens, an AI mind conspiracy, a love story gone weird, entanglements aplenty, and oh–an event of such proportion that freaks out a multi-thousand year old Culture. Yea. That’ll do. While I find Banks…

  • Review: Use of Weapons

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    Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks My rating: 4 of 5 stars (3.5 really..) I finished this a few weeks ago and I had trouble thinking of the review. I was in a stressful place and this book has a lot of back and forth in timelines and the engine that moves it forward…

  • Review: Waking Gods

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    Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel My rating: 4 of 5 stars What an interesting book. I mean a lot of books you can tag an archetype and forecast the conclusion. With this series, I honestly had no idea what was about to happen. A giant robot we can barely control, a woman brought back from…

  • Review: Red Sister

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    Red Sister by Mark Lawrence My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve admitted to hallucinating. I was going over books I wanted to read the other night and for some reason I thought this book was just a self-encapsulated story. Not a series. Cause I really hate starting a series at year one. I know,…

  • Review: The Heroes

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    While the prior book might have been a slug through a bog this one was a rain-drenched battle and all the feelings that come along with it.