Tak! commented on Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
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Tak! commented on House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
Latrine digger named Pirisytes
Tak! quoted House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
I mean it’s something you Marics do, right? You don’t, what, lay eggs or poop out sex bees or something?
Tak! quoted House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
The thin officer stalked over to Caeleen and looked her over like someone deciding not to buy a goat.
Tak! quoted House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
When she ventured outside, tugging on her gloves, she met a local weather phenomenon partaking equally of fog and drizzle.
Ah, this book is set in Denmark
Tak! quoted House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
It is a vision of hell.
Tak! quoted City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …
Sometimes, all you can do is keep breathing.
Tak! reviewed Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …
Silver Nitrate
4 stars
This one takes a while to get going - after several chapters, I was convinced that this was going to be a slice-of-life novel about the glory days of the mexican movie industry as seen from the 90s. (Which it is not (I mean, it is, but there's also more))
It reminds me quite a lot of The Skeleton Key(2005), in a good way.
Good characters; fun, creepy, twisty plot; unique setting.
Tak! quoted City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …
It’s always the uprising tomorrow. Only when tomorrow becomes today, the uprising stays tomorrow. Convenient that way. It’s like always having the dinner but never needing to wash the dishes.
Tak! quoted Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …
She didn’t care about the turkey, but she did mourn the lack of extra money; 1994 was going to begin on a downward spiral.
ahahaha nice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Downward_Spiral
Tak! quoted Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …
Never let fear control you: rage will be your shield. Forge an armor out of anger and bile.
daily affirmations
Tak! quoted Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …
An engorged, yellow moon painted the sky a sickly amber hue, illuminating a solitary figure.
Tak! reviewed Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody …
Blade of Dream
4 stars
Blade of Dream is a very good sequel to Age of Ash. Instead of continuing the events from the previous book, it tells the story of different characters during the same time period. There are only a few points where events overlap, so it doesn't give that "ugh, I'm just reading a different flavor of the same story again" feeling that you can get from this approach.
I found it especially interesting that one of the main characters in Blade of Dream was a very marginal character in Age of Ash that one of the narrative characters had dismissed as a silly girl with no real agency (and thus the reader implicitly seeing her that way as well), and seeing the stark contrast here.
Tak! quoted Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody …
I think there was a papermakers’ brotherhood once, but it got folded into one of the larger guilds
ahah. hahahaha.
Tak! quoted Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody …
Strict etiquette was that she should take a hand carriage or palanquin to save people in the street from having to bow.
…huh. That never occurred to me, I wonder if that was ever a consideration IRL in feudal times.