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The #SFFBookClub selection for April 2023
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The #SFFBookClub selection for April 2023
You don’t win a war
Francisco Valdes. Captain, Aurora cruiser London. September sixteenth, the year of our chief executive three-oh-two.
This is so plausible, I threw up in my mouth a little
Humanity was stuck to its own planet, victim of the spin and strain of gravity, of the never-ending tug-of-war between profit and science, between rampant capitalism and the need for human advancement.
Space plus bullshit equals death.
This is why I really want to see Musk go up
This is my third Sarah Gailey book, and every single time I finish one, I think "That woman has lived through some shit, I hope she's ok."
Just Like Home is a book about good and evil and belonging and terror and growing up and death and family, but not in the ways I expected.
Boys that age are confused all the time. They want things that they don’t understand, and they don’t know how to stop wanting them, so they get mad.
I'm not sure I've ever seen it explained that concisely
And because that part had been easy, and because nothing could be easy all the way through, she knew to expect this next part to be hard.
That's some video game reasoning right there
A satisfying continuation of the series, but whereas Ninth House was gritty, dark, contemporary supernatural fantasy, Hell Bent is verging into YA supernatural. Which is fine, but the gritty darkness was what I liked most about Ninth House.
The advantage to being unpopular is you get a lot more reading done.
— Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
My secret
Alex did her best to look innocent, but she hadn’t had much practice.
— Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
She’d told herself she was going to get through the year clean, but the year was being a dick, so she’d do what she had to.
— Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
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