I've spent the last few years saying that Tchaikovsky is my favourite sci fi writer but something about this foray into fantasy just didn't hit for me, and I'm not exactly sure why. the writing was still beautiful and inventive, but the entire series felt somehow impersonal-- the characters more of a mechanism for conveying plot than actual people.
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nonbinary. mtl. interested in speculative fiction, weird fiction, scifi, fantasy, horror, folk horror, folklore, zines. currently mostly reading ttrpg lorebooks
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uhhuhthem wants to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken …
uhhuhthem rated Ghost Station: 3 stars
Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, …
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Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, …
uhhuhthem started reading Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes
Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, …
uhhuhthem reviewed Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #3)
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, …
enjoyable but not quite lovable
4 stars
uhhuhthem wants to read Ill met by moonlight by Sarah A. Hoyt
uhhuhthem wants to read The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. …
uhhuhthem wants to read Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s …
uhhuhthem wants to read VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
uhhuhthem wants to read Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
uhhuhthem wants to read Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski
uhhuhthem wants to read Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow …
