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Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White
4.0
one of the only things brave enough to dive head-first into the black goo of Gender that has been core to my fascination with this series of late but that most installments are too afraid to touch...really good stuff. dorian is one of the guys of all time, i hate him sooooooooooooooooooo much
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
3.0
surprisingly darkly funny given it's reputation...awkward laughs were had every time he said "and so i gave up drinking" and then a page later said "i had another gin"
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
3.0
I tried to read this before, but both it's reputation and deeply annoying meme-laden opening put me off. I was always curious, though, and thanks to reading it alongside someone who both had read it before and is also much smarter and well-read than I, I was able to power through my initial friction and find a book that surprised me with how enjoyable it was.
Really enjoyed the middle stretch, was less fond of the start and the end. Muir's prose presents as being fairly insufferable initially but mostly calms down come the end of the first act, and we get into delightful bitching and courtly intrigue among a cast of delightfully broadly-drawn assholes. It's a shame, then, that all of this bleeds out of the book so quickly in the fourth act, prompting a series of hurried revelations and twists that just become sort of cacophonous after a while, given no room to breathe outside the excellently teasing measured pace of the middle stretch. The characters became drowned out by the plot, which is not an uncommon friction I have with genre fiction, but it is one I was disappointed by. Still, I enjoyed this quite a bit! If I gave out half-stars this would be an easy 3.5, it really was a solid 4-star until I fell out of love a little with the fourth act. I will definitely read the next one, which is the highest praise I can possibly give as someone who is typically uninterested in series that haven't been finished for years.
Really enjoyed the middle stretch, was less fond of the start and the end. Muir's prose presents as being fairly insufferable initially but mostly calms down come the end of the first act, and we get into delightful bitching and courtly intrigue among a cast of delightfully broadly-drawn assholes. It's a shame, then, that all of this bleeds out of the book so quickly in the fourth act, prompting a series of hurried revelations and twists that just become sort of cacophonous after a while, given no room to breathe outside the excellently teasing measured pace of the middle stretch. The characters became drowned out by the plot, which is not an uncommon friction I have with genre fiction, but it is one I was disappointed by. Still, I enjoyed this quite a bit! If I gave out half-stars this would be an easy 3.5, it really was a solid 4-star until I fell out of love a little with the fourth act. I will definitely read the next one, which is the highest praise I can possibly give as someone who is typically uninterested in series that haven't been finished for years.
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
2.0
Whether The Urth of the New Sun is a metatextual criticism of bad sequels or just a plain old bad sequel, one thing is for sure: it is Metal Gear Solid 4.
From Hell by Alan Moore
5.0
it is possible that from the beginning, severian already had some presentiment of his future.
Asunder by David Gaider
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
tie-in trash but cole rules. they put a kaworu in dragon age thank the maker. rhys sucks ass lol adrian did nothing wrong.