Andrew

Rabbits is a book that you have to finish for the beginning to truely make sense or feel like it even mattered. The first, 15 or so chapters felt slow, meandering around and a whole lot of words being said for nothing to really happened.

But once things picked up the book became really enjoyable as K begins to experience more and more reality altering events. If there will he a second book I will probably pick it up but I'm glad I stuck with the book in the long run.

Supercarrier was a fun read and I really did enjoy the book. I also enjoyed that humanity wasn't some sort of benevolent force that saved the rest of the galaxy, especially when there were other races that have been galactic powers for longer. However, humanity was still ridiculously powerful.

My two biggest grips though are 1) why would most of Captain Keyes crew continue to follow him when most aren't even able to hold a friendly conversation with any of the Aliens? 2) I'm also pretty confused on the idea that forcing battle and threatening to Nuke the Winger's home world would force them to talk with the humans and negotiate.

All in all though it was a fun read, and worth picking up imo.

I really wanted to enjoy this book, and I did in parts. The first half before Joe travels back in time and it follows his journey up to the lighthouse in Scotland, it was really enjoyable to see how much different this timeline was compared to our own.

However, once Joe traveled back in time, I felt the story had lost its legs. It became too focused on the relationship between Joe and Kite which had far too much tension for too long to make the rest of the book truly interesting. It was pretty obvious to me at least that Joe was actually Gem all along but that wasn't revealed until the final part of the book. The way the two treated each other never really made sense to me, especially Kite in the long run knowing full well who Joe really was.

However, when the narrative wasn't focused on the relationship between the two it was quite enjoyable. The final part, part VI, was very entertaining as Joe finally returns home, and Kite finds him again in the future. Things have changed, and Joe slowly begins to notice the changes around him.

All in all the book was good, I enjoyed it and intend to read more of Natasha Pulley in the future, however, I don't know if I can recommend this out right.

Amazingly written sci-fi told wonderfully through the eyes of Ryland Grace through memories and the present as he tires to save the Earth from its doomed fate. The characters' reactions felt realistic and begs the question of how far is too far to save humanity.

The ending truly brought a tear to my eye as well and was well worth the read all on its own.

Charlie Holmberg weaves a truly fantastic world through the Spellbreaker Duology. I really enjoyed how the magic system worked in these two books, and book 2 really bright to light some of the more interworkings of how spells are learned and passed down through the generations.

However, I do feel book 1 told a better, more thrilling story with better character development, book 2 was still quite enjoyable all the same. I hope to read more novels set in the same world in the future.

Remote control takes you on a journey of Sankofa, a lonely little girl as she chances down the strange alien “seed” that gave her the abilities she is slowly learning to control. She has taken on two nicknames during her travels, “Remote Control” for her effects on technology and the Adopted Daughter of Death. The Western influences mixing with Muslim and traditional cultures melding together within Ghana were interesting and highlights Afrofutureism well. This story was fantastically written and was my introduction to Nnedi Okorafor's work. I was made an instant fan.

Overall, this book was just okay. I was interested in Eliza and Nella's chapters set in the past rather than Caroline's set in the present day. Caroline, at times, felt poorly written just to create the needed drama to advance the plot forward. Certain things just happen to fall in place just so Caroline can have a confrontation with the police at one point. I really disliked the convenience of it all. The ending was pretty well written, however, for Nella and Eliza. For Caroline, though, it was just another set of confusing decisions.

As a fan of strategy games I was unsure about this litrpg. However, once the story gets going I found it to be an enjoyable read. It was also great to take a different approach to conflicts than through warfare. The only down side is that the NPCs are really only as deep as NPCs from actual games. Hopefully some of these characters will have major growth in future books.

Great sequel thst built on the foundations of Book 1, Unsouled. Where as book 1 struggled a little bit to find itd legs, book 2 took off running. The characters and the clans that we meant were all interesting in different ways, and Lidian continued to grow at a much faster pace than he did in book 1. The fishers might be the most interesting group we have encountered so far and I hope to see them again in the future.

Okay story with a cool world

Maybe 10 years ago I could've gotten into the very much high school teen drama that occurred within the real world of this book, but honestly I though the who dynamics between Jason, Riley and Alex just incredibly cringe.

Having said that, the game world itself was pretty cool and the development of Alfred, the AI was a fun read. I'm unsure at the time of writting if I will pick up book 2, but if I do it would sololy be due to continue the story within the digital world ans I hope the real world stuff is just left behind.

Okay Sequel

I really enjoyed the first book but book 2 was a bit underwhelming. Most of the characters from the first book don't appear in this one, introducing a whole set of new characters to get to know. Secondly almost everything just works out in Charles' favor no matter how much he might be up against a wall. In addition the plot seems to just jump from one point to another.

This was a pretty fun read, picked it up based off a recommendation for “cozy” post-zombie story whcih this book didn't quite meet in my opinion, but what I got was a pretty thrilling read for a short book.

Bonus points for a gay romance which was just presented like a normal, refreshing part of life.

I'll be honest I picked this book because of the location it was based in, being from the Inland Empire myself its rare to see many stories that take place here.

The story was a good, easier read than what I normally read ao it was a nice break, even if I had figured out where the story was going pretty early on. I'm unsure if I will pick up the sequel but will be considering it.

Spellbreaker was a great read. The magic system built within the world is fascinating, yhat established two different types of magic users. There are the Spellmakers, who can cast spells from different fields of magic and are psychically limited in how much they can learn in their life time. Finally there are the Spellbreakers who can see the spells that jave been cast and unweave them to “break” the spell.

The story itself was an entertaining mystery as Elsie Camden and Bacchus Kelsey stumble upon a dangerous plot to murder high level spellbreakers and steal their spells.

This book is a lot like similar LitRPGs. Roy Skyworth is brought into another world after meeting his untimely demise on Earth. The written could use some work as all of the characters seemed very flat. The world building was also a bit lacking, and Roy simply lucks out a lot throughout the book.

My biggest complaint however, is how the female characters are presented, all beautiful and highly attractive to the point that Roy falls in love with one with days of arriving. Despite leaving behind a wife and kids on Earth, which doesn't really seem to bother him to much. Roy at times almost comes off more as a horny teenager rather than an adult in a few of these encounters and how he describes the women.

Another minor annoyance is the continuous use of “Roy Boy” it was funny the first time, but after awhile it just became overused and tired.

Now for the best parts. Darren is farily great at writting combat, especially in back and forth battles. The female characters, despite kind of being sexualized in their original descriptions upon introduce are all quite powerful in combat and are shown to more than be able to hold their own.

Over all the story was pretty enjoyable.