Tag: book
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Book Review – Artemis by Andy Weir
Artemis, by Andy Weir, starts out as a bit of a heist book. Set in the first city on the Moon, Artemis follows Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara as she navigates her life as a porter, her sideline as a smuggler of contraband, and her disapproving father. One of Jazz’s smuggling clients offers her a sabotage job…
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Book Review – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
I got my latest read, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet as a gift, and had a great time reading it. Â The first novel from Becky Chambers, it follows a young woman named Rosemary as she joins the crew of a tunneling ship (basically they make shortcuts through space) as they get a…
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Book Review – Archivist Wasp
For months, one of my online friends has been recommending Archivist Wasp to pretty much everybody. Â It was on my list to check out some day, but when it went on sale a few weeks back she decided to just gift the book to a few of us and be done with it. Â I’m very…
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Book Review – Star Wars: A New Dawn
Are you watching the new Star Wars cartoon, Rebels? Â Do you want to know more about Kanan? Â Well, it takes quite a while to get interesting, but A New Dawn is your jam. Â There’s insight into Kanan (then under his real name) and his training as a Padawan before Order 66, the first meeting with…
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Book Review: Star Wars – Tarkin
Remember how strange it was in Ocean’s Twelve when it was revealed that Danny and the boys had won because they had outsmarted the bad guys off-screen? Yeah, pretty much what you have here. Â We begin Tarkin, by James Luceno, with an attack on a station Moff Tarkin is familiar with, so Palpatine (now the…
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Book Review – Half a King, Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie’s Half a King is my first book of his, and it’s great, if not ground-breaking. Â It follows young Prince Yarvi, who has a withered arm, content to step away from the throne and dive into a life of books and study. Â Not strong enough to fight, he hones his mind, but everything changes…
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Book Review – Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves
As soon as I heard James S. A. Corey (the Sci-fi pen name for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham) had signed on to write a Star Wars novel, I was all in. Even better was the fact that most SW novels get put on Netgalley so I can read them early review them for…
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Book Review – Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
I keep an eye out on NetGalley for books that may some day interest my kids, and I became curious about Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee when I saw it was one of the most requested books on the site. Â What I found was a fast-paced reimagining of the Snow Queen story…
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Book Review – Maul: Lockdown
It was with some trepidation that I started this latest Star Wars novel, Maul: Lockdown. Â Kindly provided via NetGalley, it had several warning signs. Â First, it’s about a prequel trilogy character, one that barely qualified AS a character. Â Maul was red and black, and had a saber-staff. Â He got killed by Obi-Wan, which has to…
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Book Review – Steelheart
Steelheart, by Brandon Sanderson, is a spin through a dystopian world where an event (the Calamity) has given a small number of humans super powers. The problem is, they are ALL evil. Even though not all ‘Epics’ are equal in power, there are enough that they pretty much carved the world up into chunks they…
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Book Series Review: The Gentlemen Bastards Series
Okay, my friends had been recommending this series to each other for years, and when I saw the third book was available on NetGalley, I jumped in and started reading. Â WOW. Â This is some great fantasy writing for sure! Â Take Ocean’s 11, add in magic and alchemy, stir with swords and hatchets, and you’ve got…
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Book Review – Kenobi (Star Wars)
Got this one as a review copy from NetGalley, and it’s a bit better than the last one (Crucible). Â It’s about, as you might guess, Obi-Wan Kenobi, as he tries to watch over the infant Luke. Â It’s framed by Obi-Wan’s attempts to recreate the meditation Yoda showed him in order to speak to Qui-Gon. Â The…