Tak! commented on Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel …
If they make a film version of this, I demand that DJ Smalls plays Idris
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Tak! commented on Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful …
Tak! reviewed The Healers' Road by S. E. Robertson
Agna had looked forward to her overseas assignment for the last four years. It was …
The Healers' Road
4 stars
The Healers' Road isn't my usual type of book (although you might think differently if you witnessed the T. Kingfisher bibliography pour through my timeline), but I enjoyed it very much.
It's very much a book about interpersonal relationships, decorated in a vaguely fantastic setting, and the author wonderfully illustrated concepts like how uncommunicated assumptions can poison your interactions with someone, or how hiding things we're afraid of or embarrassed by often lead to us suffering more.
I'm looking forward to the second part, although I think I'll need to cleanse my palate with something faster-paced first.
Tak! reviewed Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood, she sought …
Akata Woman
4 stars
Everything I love about the series, with a more epic scope than earlier installments
Tak! reviewed Black Sun Rising by C. S. Friedman
Black Sun Rising
2 stars
I tried to get into it, and it felt like all the pieces were there, but it just turned into a long slog for me 🤷
Tak! commented on Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in …
An Ignyte Award finalist for 2022: www.tor.com/2022/04/19/announcing-the-shortlist-for-the-2022-ignyte-awards/
Tak! commented on Black Sun Rising by C. S. Friedman
You have to respect an author that lays down a portmanteau like demonagerie
Tak! rated Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters: 4 stars
Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden
Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. …
Tak! reviewed The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there …
Fantastic!
5 stars
I loved the sense of creeping doom as I unraveled each drip of exposition.
At first I couldn't see how this and Upright Women Wanted could possibly be from the same author, but eventually similar themes around trust, betrayal, and self-loathing/-punishment emerged.
Tak! commented on Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate... and, unfortunately, his relatives. …
🎶 A job gnole yearns for a rag-and-bone gnole A pair of gnoles should write a gnole romance 🎶
Tak! reviewed Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate... and, unfortunately, his relatives. …
Swordheart
4 stars
Ms. Kingfisher must be trolling us at this point, but somehow I find that I can't complain
Tak! commented on Paladin's Hope by T Kingfisher (duplicate)
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death …
I really hope she's working up to a novel with a gnole protagonist
Tak! rated Paladin's Hope: 4 stars
Paladin's Hope by T Kingfisher (duplicate)
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. …
Tak! commented on Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
"It should also be noted that author Martha Wells graciously declined her [2021 Nebula Award] nomination as novella finalist for her sixth Murderbot Diaries book for Tordotcom, Fugitive Telemetry. Wells thought the series had already been well-recognized and wanted to leave space to highlight other works."
www.tor.com/2022/03/08/here-are-the-2021-nebula-award-finalists/
Tak! commented on The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for …
A Nebula finalist! www.tor.com/2022/03/08/here-are-the-2021-nebula-award-finalists/