I liked the subtly off-kilter parallel world, and I could go along with the horror novel goddess resurrection stuff. The book is best when doing some magic and theology. If only that weren't embedded in some stultifying St Elmo's Fire knock-off starring the most boring and passive set of characters...
I nearly finished it, over several weeks, largely because of airplanes with broken wifi. Reminded me of grinding through crappy hardcovers because I'd bought the damned thing and was gonna get my money's worth.
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puercomal rated Against the Grain: 4 stars
Against the Grain by James C. Scott (Yale agrarian studies series)
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors …
puercomal rated Atrocities: 4 stars
Atrocities by JEREMY SHIPP
Jeremy Shipp brings you The Atrocities, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education
When Isabella died, her parents …
puercomal rated Them: Adventures with Extremists: 4 stars
puercomal rated The Ruin of Angels: 5 stars
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone (The Craft Sequence, #6)
puercomal reviewed Waking the moon by Elizabeth Hand
Sweeney Cassidy is a freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the …
Review of 'Waking the moon' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
puercomal reviewed The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin
Review of 'The Unreal and the Real' on 'Goodreads'
I used to have an "abandoned" goodreads shelf until I decided that was putting too much attention into the site... anyway, I've given up on this. There are many subtle and literary stories in the first part of the book and TBH that isn't what I'm here for.
puercomal rated Dark State (Empire Games, #2): 5 stars
puercomal rated The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3): 3 stars
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) by Nnedi Okorafor
The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.
Binti …
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Binti, #1)
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at …
puercomal rated The Undertaking: 2 stars
puercomal rated Autonomous: 4 stars
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent …
puercomal rated Every Heart a Doorway: 3 stars
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #1)
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of …
puercomal rated Down Among the Sticks and Bones: 5 stars
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #2)
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's …