Light and fluffy steampunk fantasy alternate-history jaunt. A fun premise and a lot of potential but I found the story a little too shallow and the characters way too bland.
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Armamix rated Norse Mythology: 3 stars
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns …
Armamix rated Dark Forest: 4 stars
Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 2)
Armamix rated Use of Weapons (Culture, #3): 3 stars
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3) by Iain M. Banks (A Culture novel)
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990. It is …
Armamix rated The Player of Games: 4 stars
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
Armamix reviewed Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson (Rebel Mechanics (1))
All is Fair in Love and Revolution
An alternative U.S. history where the British …
Review of 'Rebel Mechanics' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
Story of a horse the New York Times has called ''the most famous fictional horse …
Review of 'The Black Stallion (Black Stallion Stories, 1)' on 'Storygraph'
Re-read 2016, dated but fun.
Armamix reviewed Arsene Wenger by John Cross
Review of 'Arsene Wenger' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
The few interesting tidbits this book contains are repeated ad nauseum in a very disorganized manner. The writing is dull and repetitive and the attempts at controversy are so contrived they could have been taken from the Daily Mail. Oh wait, they were. Never mind.
Armamix rated The Three-Body Problem: 4 stars
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1)
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape …
Armamix reviewed Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Review of 'Aurora' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Possibly the best from Robinson in a very long time (though I skipped Shaman, for now.) This one surprised me halfway by going off in a totally different direction than expected, but the main themes are the same as always. Ecology, human physiology and psychology, sociology. I was looking for a a more detailed delving into the starship-as-earth closed ecology analogy, but perhaps that will come later.
Armamix rated The man in the high castle: 3 stars
The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick
Overview: It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. …
Armamix reviewed Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
Review of 'Europe in Autumn' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
This is good in its own right, but it does bear a striking resemblance to China Mievilles City and the City. Looking forward to the next part.
Armamix reviewed Evna by Siri Pettersen
Seria: Krucze Pierścienie, T. 3
Review of 'Evna' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Er det slutt alt?
Armamix rated Small gods: 4 stars
Small gods by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 13)
Small Gods is the thirteenth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, published in 1992. It tells the origin of the god …
Armamix reviewed Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City …
Review of 'Go Set A Watchman' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
Starts out excruciatingly slow, and is marred by poor editing (Is the school headmaster Mr Tuffett or Ms Muffett?) It picks itself up a bit in the final third and becomes a nice but somewhat uninspiring read.
Mild spoilers:
Others have mentioned how their biggest disappointment is the relegation of Atticus from God Almighty to Regular Joe. I don't see that at all. All through Mockingbird I looked at Atticus as a decent role model for fathers and people in general, but felt very clearly that he was presented through the eyes of a child that adored him. This book only strengthens that view for me. Atticus is still as much a standout father, but with the obvious flaws that make him a mortal man. His handling of what can only be called a very delayed teenage rebellion seems to me to be nothing but a success. That he has …
Starts out excruciatingly slow, and is marred by poor editing (Is the school headmaster Mr Tuffett or Ms Muffett?) It picks itself up a bit in the final third and becomes a nice but somewhat uninspiring read.
Mild spoilers:
Others have mentioned how their biggest disappointment is the relegation of Atticus from God Almighty to Regular Joe. I don't see that at all. All through Mockingbird I looked at Atticus as a decent role model for fathers and people in general, but felt very clearly that he was presented through the eyes of a child that adored him. This book only strengthens that view for me. Atticus is still as much a standout father, but with the obvious flaws that make him a mortal man. His handling of what can only be called a very delayed teenage rebellion seems to me to be nothing but a success. That he has views and opinions most people today probably do not have takes nothing away from that.
I went into this with low expectations, I figured there was a good reason this book was never published, before and there is. It appears unfinished and rather immature and would probably not have appeared at all (or at least not in this form) had it not been a guaranteed success. In conclusion, you certainly do not have to read this, but it's not all bad either.