Reviews and Comments

Went ahead and finished the book in spite of my misgivings. It did get better, though there was still too much attempt to be witty and very, very contemporary. That part won't age well. The book will give you a good understanding of how ridiculously hard establishing space settlements would be, and why we probably are not capable of doing that anytime soon.

There's a whole section on the legal aspects of space settlements; there is already some international law covering this. It's here I think the authors are wrong, in that they fatally underestimate the willingness of broligarchs to simply ignore established law, international diplomacy, ethics, and basic decency; and their willingness to sacrifice human lives by the hundreds.

I may end up not finishing this one. The science is solid and well-researched, but the presentation is cartoon-cute, including actual cartoons. I am a grinch and do not like my science to be cutesy.

Oh, and in case you wondered, the answer to all three questions (Can we settle space? Should we settle space? And have we really thought this through?) is no.

It was a fun book but not particularly compelling.

Really liked this book, but it is not easy to read. The action is brutal and gory; there's a lot of killing and the details are not spared.

It's never explained why only one person can see all these ghosts. And it's never explained why one ghost can do things no other ghost can do. The lack of any logical framework is infuriating.

Was not thrilled with this one. I don't like books where much of the content consists of the main character's internal dialogue. Makes me want to yell, "Stop agonizing and just do something!"

This is November's choice for the Queer Romance Club read on Mastodon.

Reading books like this, set in worlds where magic or supernatural forces are normal, always makes me feel like there's some western/christian cultural mythos that is familiar enough to other people to be just background knowledge, and is something I never learned.

In spite of that, I really enjoyed the story.

Well, that was frustrating. Good story, but it ends with a cliffhanger. And I don't think there's a sequel.

This is October's choice for the Queer Romance Club read on Mastodon.

This seems like it would be fun to read!

Didn't care for this book at all. Not only were none of the characters really likeable, but it's supposed to be a romance and it didn't really seem believable that they liked each other. Besides, the setting never felt plausible either. It's a future society that somehow retains social structures from the last century.

I didn't so much read this one, as use it for research for a story I was writing, but it was very interesting anyhow.

My turn to read the library book finally came up. I enjoyed the book but didn't find anything especially compelling about it. And some of the motives for the murders seemed pretty flimsy.

I discovered this book through a video where the author talks about its subject matter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk0sJP9C9-I The video itself is pretty interesting.