I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Andromeda—Andra for short—is put into stasis in preparation for a hundred-year journey to a new planet, to …
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Book Review | Time Travel for Love and Profit (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Time Travel for Love and Profit by Sarah Lariviere. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Time Travel for Love and Profit, a girl named Nephele ends her freshman year of …
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Trilogy Review | Arc of a Scythe
I get to meet Neal Shusterman next month (!!!), so figured I’d better read one of his most beloved series, Arc of a Scythe, before I do. And I’ve decided, since I marathoned this entire trilogy, to write a review for the whole thing at once. So there might be minor implicit spoilers, but I’ll …
Book Review | Frankenstein in Baghdad
Well, long time no see. I hit a bit of a reading slump this past month, plus got busier than ever with my work, so finishing this novel took probably three times longer than I had hoped. Nevertheless, I finished it at last! Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi is a novel set in Iraq in …
Book Review | The Fowl Twins (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Several years after the events of the Artemis Fowl series, Artemis’ younger twin brothers Myles and Beckett have their …
Book Review | This Is How You Lose the Time War
Well, after my recent Rick Riordan kick, it’s time for something completely different! This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone tells the story of Red and Blue, two women fighting on opposite sides of a war that spans and transcends all of—you guessed it—time. Red is from the …
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Book Review | Good Omens
I’m listening to Queen while writing this review, because it’s only right. (Not on cassette, though, sorry Crowley.) Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s collaborative novel Good Omens follows angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley who, over the thousands of years they’ve known each other, have become close despite their differences. But Armageddon is fast approaching, which …
