Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2025

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

"Red, an operative of The Agency and Blue, an operative of Garden are able to travel through time and space, making corrections, deletions, all manner of alterations that will affect time in past, present and future. When Red stumbles upon a letter in the aftermath of a battle that says, "Burn before Reading" she rises to the bait and that's when she "meets" Blue and their correspondence will be the thing that changes everything."  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros: It was definitely an interesting read, told mostly through correspondence between two enemy agents in the Time War/Red and Blue's differences in beliefs first made them enemies but as time progressed and their letters, first taunts and jeers changed to friendship and love, they too, changed as people.  Cons: The times between the letters, when Red and Blue complete assignments and try to keep their correspondence a secret, could be a little confusing/Since they could travel back and forth through different ...

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

"Essentially, it's the story of six Astronauts, working and living on the International Space Station that orbits the Earth. Though the author tried to give the characters background, the book was too short to make any one character stick out and the lack of a cohesive plot made it so the book just kept going, around and around, much like the Space Station in its continuous orbit of the Earth." ⭐⭐ Pros: There were moments of true beauty at the beginning, seeing Earth from the vantage point of Space.   Cons: The author tried to give the characters background but they all kind of blurred together, none of them really stuck out/The narrative, since there was no real plot, just ended up going around and around in circles, meandering and pointless.    Full Review: This book follows six astronauts who are on the space station that’s orbiting earth. To be perfectly honest, none of the character stuck out to me enough to remember their names or their places of origin. ...

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

​ “I initially believed that this would be an off-shoot of Stoker's Dracula and an exploration into the three mysterious "women" that Harker finds when he's roaming Dracula's castle but unfortunately, that was not the case. It had its interesting moments and some potential but in the end it devolved into smut.” ⭐⭐ Pros: It started out with potential, since I thought it would tie into Stoker's Dracula and be an interesting offshoot but it wasn't. Cons: Since the back of the book says that Constanta was Dracula's first bride, I was led to believe that the Vampire in the book, since he's never given a first name, was, in fact, Dracula, but, I was wrong/The timing of everything was just hilariously wrong, let's plot out this whole, dangerous, betrayal, all while the villagers are storming the castle. I guess when you're immortal, your time management skills falter.   Full Review:  Amidst the burning wreckage of her village, Constanta lies on th...