Reviews and Comments

enjoyed reading this, it's short, it has some annihilation vibes to begin with but the story diverged enough from that line in the send half that it wasn't just a remake of a popular book.

is this an easy summer read. most definitely

so far this book has almost to much overlap with annihilation...

i am literally distracted by the annihilation plot line and it's differences reading this.

Generally was really enjoying the triology of the red rising, nothing fantastic, but an interesting space opera that kept my attention and got better book by book. but this 4th one i just struggled to kind of get into until the end.

in order of my liking them: 3rd book 2nd book 1st book 4th book

not gonna continue with the series and supporting novellas anymore i think

I got this one as a lender with the premise of, "ooooo you'll love the historic Quebec City trans convent story" and they were right, I did. It is a fun collection, taking fantasy and flights of fancy to make transitions beautiful and grotesque, bleeding a bit of body horror at times with resolving dysmorphia and imagining worlds where gender is less static and so are the limits of our flesh to change.

Most memorable stories include the convent story, the self-titled story and one which features someone transitioning into a rock face then a mountain.

it is riddled with Canadiana and references that you might pick out from your travels. a worthwhile read I am happy i had it out and picked it up and put it down over the past few months

Started this series literally cause it is sci-fi on mars and talking about class conflict. This first book follows some really tired trends in sci-fi, overdone by YA fiction, of a school for youth who are trained in conflict to prove themselves. but this isn't a YAF booked, there is copious amounts of blood, the politicking, and alliances are more complex. It was definitely a slow burn for me where by the end of this first book i was invested enough finish the series.

a sneak peak to book two is I like it much better so consider working though it. Definitely a space opera for those who despise them, so you have been warned.

Recommended to me by the pregnant clerk at the bookstore for the hot nun sex in the convent. (for the sake of narrative, lets pretend she was hitting on me!)

Really loved the first book in this series so even with developing the characters and world further and the addition of a demon sex workers character, it can only get a 4.5 to differentiate it from book 1.

set in a military camp this time, it appeared as a departure from a lot of the themes from the first book but it maintained the polygod central plot.

Definitely enjoyed and would recommend and am not sure where book three is gonna take us, but i am in for the ride.

I really think this is one of my favourite AT novels I have read.

My simple pitch, this is the fantasy novel equivalent of Fredy Perlmans "Worker-student action committees".

full stop.

Just wrapped up this series and very much appreciated it. It had both the scale of everything but still kept the story and characters within a time and place that was easy to comprehend.

many sympathetic characters and many despicable.

By the end I had trouble keeping track of the different factions involved in the grand scale of all the issues, but I appreciated the application of three way fight logistics, and cataclysmic problems.

happy I read it and for anyone Adrian Tchaikovsky pilled it is a great series.

a good expansion of the story and ended with me wanting resolution from the next book, and feeling very impatient for it.

I just devoured this one for a refresher before starting the next two books in the trilogy. Really like AT's world building and how his prose really paints me a picture that looks just like 70's sci-fi mate paintings and book covers.

and as always this book features invertebrates as a plot point like so many of his stories!

....and multi-party conflicts, world ending crisis, class and gender politics, revolutions, the occult and cults, and other standards of good sci-fi in my opinion.

Rereading this one from last year as a refresher to digest the trilogy!