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When We Were Starless by Simone Heller

July 28, 2019 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 7/27/19
Finished: 7/28/19

For a novelette, it took too long to reel me in.  I considered not finishing it, and come on, it’s a novelette.  I did finish it, and it did get good, but there’s too much left to the imagination after the end.  And I’m not sure I care enough to imagine it.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, novelette, post-apocalyptic, SF

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

July 14, 2019 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 7/8/19
Finished: 7/14/19

I was just getting into the swing of things when it ended!  That’s the problem with novellas, I suppose.  Good story, but there’s a lot about the world and their mission that I didn’t completely follow.  I care enough to wish I could find out more, but that also means I’m a little disappointed in it.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, Hugo nominee, novella, post-apocalyptic, SF

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

June 7, 2019 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 6/1/19
Finished: 6/7/19

I’ve been meaning to read this one for a year, and then it got nominated for a Hugo and I got it in the voter’s packet, so yay for me!  It’s a story about monsters and monsterslayers in a post-apocalyptic US, set on a Navajo reservation, and it’s pretty great.

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The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman

March 6, 2019 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 3/1/19
Finished: 3/6/19

This is a post-apocalyptic world where nearly all white people died and the people who live die by the time they’re 20 (of what sounds like the plague), so the world is populated by kids.  The language is all dialect or pidgin, hard to get used to, but you get there.  It’s told in the first person, so that language is all you get.  It’s sometimes hard to remember that the main character is only 15. At other times, it’s painfully obvious and terribly sad that they’re all just children.  I was having trouble deciding if I liked it, or even if I thought it was good, and since I finished it over a week ago and I can’t let it go, I think that’s a yes on both counts (although I’m not crazy about the VERY end).

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The Passage by Justin Cronin

May 13, 2018 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 5/6/18
Finished: 5/13/18

I feel like I’ve read this book before.  The story is too familiar.  It’s The Stand, it’s World War Z with vampires.  It’s about a government experiment that unleashes the apocalypse and then, decades later, how what society is left is dealing with it (and eventually, hopefully, defeating it).  This is the first in a trilogy (something I didn’t know when I started it).  I will admit here that I read the summaries on Wikipedia and Goodreads to see what happens in the other two books rather than read them myself.

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Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn

January 26, 2018 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 1/23/18
Finished: 1/26/18

The premise was interesting – post-apocalyptic world, society determines that overpopulation was one of the causes of collapse, so people have to earn the right to have kids – but it took a while to get to that explanation, and I never felt like it had a point. Also, the writing was ANNOYING. John was reading another of her books at the same time and had similar issues with the writing. I finished it, but it was difficult not to skim through to the end.

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