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  • Review: A Conjuring of Light

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    A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab My rating: 4 of 5 stars A beautiful book and a really neat series. I like that it was a true trilogy and that it ended, even though I’d have loved to see more and I do hope the author may revisit the world because there is a…

  • Review: Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

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    Babylon’s Ashes, the 6th book in The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey What an amazing book. Maybe absence from the series makes the heart grow fonder. Maybe it’s a timeliness of reading it with our nation the way it seemingly is. Maybe it’s just a good damn book. Any of the ways, I enjoyed…

  • Review: City of Miracles

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    City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a fun series. Each book was separated by a handful of years. Enough time for perspectives, aging, getting comfy with the world and it’s quirks after the blink. I’d sorely like to read a novelette of the hey-day of gods…

  • 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…