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  • 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.

  • Review: Best Served Cold

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    Returning the world Joe Abercrombie delivers another dark tale of people and the striving through the human condition. Here is a tale of vengeance and it’s dark countenance. It was good, but not his greatest work and here’s my take.

  • Review: Echopraxia

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    Echopraxia by Peter Watts My rating: 4 of 5 stars Of roaches, bicameral, zombies, vampires–oh my. I think this book could have started being interleaved between the pages of the prior book and it would have had a nice transitional set/segue. It stands alone but it also marries. Where Blindsight captivated us in closed spaces…

  • Review: Blindsight

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    We have a not-so-far-in-the-future event that for a moment galvanizes humanity. A humanity on the brink of losing its humanity maybe for good reasons, maybe for selfish–but we’re changing and we can already see that beginning of change in today’s science.

  • Review: The Obelisk Gate

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    It’s hard not to continue to come up with geological metaphors for this book. It’s dense, striated, complicated, a few pockets that formed that needed shoring up, but overall a great cross section that continues to evolve.