I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Where Shadows Bloom by Catherine Bakewell. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. If nothing else, this book gave me the excuse to listen to the Hadestown soundtrack again. Not that I …
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Book Review | The Broposal
Yes, it’s a really silly title, but I read it anyway. In The Broposal by Sonora Reyes, Kenny and Alejandro (Han for short) have been best friends since they were in grade school. Now, in their twenties, they’re sharing an apartment as they try to survive adulthood. But Han’s life doesn’t seem to be going …
Book Review | The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
I don’t want this series to be over! The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is the final installment in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series. We find ourselves on the planet Gora, a rather inhospitable place with no native life. It serves merely as a sort of interplanetary truck stop, now that the Galactic Commons has set …
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Book Review | Record of a Spaceborn Few
I’m making such good time with this series! In Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, the third standalone installment in the Wayfarers series, we follow a group of humans living on a spaceship. They’re from the Exodus Fleet, the descendants of the last humans to have left Earth after the planet’s environmental collapse. …
Book Review | A Closed and Common Orbit
I devoured this audiobook in two days. This is the opposite of a problem. In A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, the AI program known as Lovelace faces a new experience when she’s placed into a humanoid body after total system shutdown and reboot. So she finds her way off the ship and …
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