Tak! commented on A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
The #SFFBookClub selection for April 2023
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Tak! reviewed Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in …
Just Like Home
5 stars
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.
Tak! stopped reading Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus
Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the struggles …
I'm sorry, booksona, you're not for me…
Tak! reviewed Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight …
Hell Bent
4 stars
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.
Tak! commented on Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Please continue to ignore this second #Test
Tak! commented on Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Please ignore this #Test
Tak! commented on The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old …
The March 2023 #SFFBookClub selection
Tak! wants to read Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus
Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the struggles …
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Tak! reviewed Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, …
Children of Memory
4 stars
Content warning plot arc metaspoilers maybe? also for Nona the Ninth
This one took me on a very Nona the Ninth-like journey, from "I am following the plot and know what is going on" to "I am no longer following the plot, what the hell is going on" to "Wow, I did not see that coming"
Tak! commented on Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, …
What the hell is going on?!
Tak! commented on Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
Content warning discussion of character traits, addiction
I think it didn't sink in on my first readthrough that Mishima's fondness for narrative content was framed as a shameful addiction.
I wonder if this is meant to be a comment on the popular view that fiction is idle, time-wasting escapism, while nonfiction is educational and productive.
I also found that the author subsequently wrote a short story on the topic.
Tak! commented on Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
The SFFBookClub selection for February 2023
Tak! commented on A Telling of Stars by Caitlin Sweet
At eighteen, Jaele’s life is shattered when her family is murdered by a band of …
The author has made epub and pdf editions available on a pay-what-you-want/-can basis at caitlinsweet.com/a-telling-of-stars/
Tak! rated A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking: 5 stars
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her …
Tak! reviewed The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she …
The Twisted Ones
5 stars
This is the best/worst book to have just gotten into when a bout of insomnia strikes, so you can lie reading in a dark, silent house while the level of creepiness steadily builds, and something outside makes a tok-tok-tok noise