Started: 9/11/18
Finished: 9/12/18
I don’t remember where I heard about this one, but it was a nice read about a woman trying to recover from her husband’s tragic death a year before. She has a teenage son and a job in advertising, and it was funny and sweet and light, despite the tragic background. (I do occasionally read and enjoy non-SFF books.)
Started: 9/7/18
Finished: 9/11/18
Book 2 of the Frontlines series. The adventures of Andrew Grayson in the space infantry continue!
Started: 9/5/18
Finished: 9/7/18
A well-off Victorian teenager with a bad attitude goes on an adventure with his best friend (who he’s secretly in love with) and his sister (who is awesome and gets her own sequel).
Started: 9/3/18
Finished: 9/5/18
The first in the Frontlines series, future military, reminiscent of Starship Troopers, but in a good way. Easy read.
Started: 9/1/18
Finished: 9/3/18
The fourth in the Spotless series. I nearly put this one down (lack of caring what happens to these characters), but it’s the last one (I think), and it was easy enough for me to keep going in the middle of the night when I was soaking my feet in the tub.
Started: 8/29/18
Finished: 9/1/18
The third in the Spotless series. Losing interest, but it was an easy read in the middle of the night when I needed distraction from my itching feet.
Started: 8/24/18
Finished: 8/29/18
An interesting story about what happens when people lose their memories. This being science fiction, it turns out that memories live in your shadow, and everyone’s shadows begin to disappear.
Started: 8/17/18
Finished: 8/24/18
Sequel to Six of Crows, nice wrap-up to that story. Adventure, heists, magic, plots within plots – good stuff.
Started: 8/16/18
Gave up: 8/17/18
Interesting premise: Victorian missionaries travel to the lands of the Fae to try to convert them to Christianity. Our protagonist’s brother never returned, so she heads there to try to find him. And then nothing happens. For a long time. So I gave up.
Started: 8/13/18
Gave up: 8/16/18
Loved it. Alternate history where an asteroid hits the planet and the space race of the 60s is needed to find a way to save humanity. It’s about the space race, focusing on the role of women and minorities in a fascinating and entertaining look at fake-NASA.
Started: 8/12/18
Gave up: 8/13/18
I was so ready to love this book and then I didn’t. It was written in the Hitchhiker’s Guide style (which I knew going in – that was part of the appeal), but it was too deliberately and obviously and painfully done that way, and it wasn’t fun to read. I gave up.
Started: 8/7/18
Finished: 8/11/18
LOVED this. The Civil War got interrupted by the zombie apocalypse, and while slavery technically ended (because everyone is needed to fight zombies), really all the former slaves got drafted to be the front line in the fight against the zombies. Young adult, really strong voice, great main character. I think (I hope) there will be a sequel.
Started: 7/29/18
Finished: 8/7/18
Really good, really interesting, but a little tough to start. Once I was in, though, I was all the way in. The magic is super weird but in a good way, and at the same time, this is set in our future.
Started: 7/21/18
Finished: 7/29/18
Interesting way to look at reincarnation (kind of reincarnation, kind of immortality), but I feel like the story went off the rails towards the end. Pretty good, didn’t love it.
Started: 7/17/18
Finished: 7/21/18
I’m really not sure if I liked this. It was interesting, and there’s an open question about the abilities the kid had (Did he actually have them? Did those things really happen?), but aside from that, it’s about a teenager, his relationships, and his eating disorder.
Started: 7/12/18
Finished: 7/17/18
Entertaining, but not great. Superheroes are a thing, but the main character is the assistant to one of the heroes because she’s afraid of her own powers and blah blah blah. It wasn’t exactly gripping.
Started: 7/6/18
Finished: 7/12/18
It’s a Baba Yaga story, it’s an Alice in Wonderland story, and of course it’s neither of those, but it was really good, and I really enjoyed the characters.
Started: 7/5/18
Finished: 7/5/18
Cute story (novelette) about robots when people aren’t around.
Started: 7/4/18
Finished: 7/4/18
I wanted to like this one more (because I really enjoyed her Hugo-nominated novella), but it was maybe a bit too “these kids today” for me.
Started: 7/4/18
Finished: 7/4/18
One of my favorites of the Hugo-nominated novelettes (the other being the other robot one – it seems I like robots), this one was really sweet.