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Book Review: Rites of Passage by MD Presley
2024.04.08 16:37 andypeloquin Book Review: Rites of Passage by MD Presley
 | TL;DR Review: An original and fresh entry in the Urban Fantasy genre, with exciting potential to expand into a great big magical world. submitted by andypeloquin to Fantasy [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/3g6soxg7o9tc1.png?width=560&format=png&auto=webp&s=3792a3db9892647fec1ee7ec9f9cefe13c910d6e Full Review:Urban Fantasy is always a fun genre to dive into. It blends magical elements into our real world, and in so doing, gives rise to the question of “How would that world look of magic really did exist?”In the world depicted in the pages of Rites of Passage, the magical community is divided in a truly fascinating way: the big cities (and highways, a neat touch) are run by the Inner Circle, while the smaller towns and rural areas are run by various smaller factions that control their own territory. There is a sort of “accord” between the Inner Circle and smaller factions, but it is fraught, tense, and often hostile. That is exactly the flavor you can expect from this book. Let me explain… The main character, Corbin, is on the run from the cult where he was born and raised. All his life, he’s had to keep one huge secret: he has the ability to dowse, to magically trace people using items or objects of great emotional value to them. While on the run, he is found by the mysterious “Mister”, a high-ranked magician of the Inner Circle, who brings him into a job to find a fellow magician gone missing. Mister and his compatriots belong to the Inner Circle, but where they have to search is in the territory of the Spiral Chains, so they have to team up with magicians from the Chains in order to keep the peace. Only there will be no peace. There is constant bickering, double-dealing, and manipulating—often below the surface, but sometimes out in the open. I loved how this was very reflective of Corbin’s upbringing in the cult. The hard lessons he learned dealing with the cult’s psychopathic leader, Gideon, makes him adept at navigating the whims and wills of powerful men and women. Though he’s brand new to the world of magic and the power struggles between the two factions, he finds his own feet quickly and begins to earn their respect—and a place among them—through his cunning, insight, and magical abilities. There isn’t a great deal of focus on characters in this story. We don’t get to know too much about anyone beyond Corbin. But it makes for a fast-paced story that is always moving forward and hurtling at what feels like breakneck speed toward the ending. I was intrigued by the cult element and Corbin’s personality from the beginning, and drawn further in by the development and explanation of the magical world. By the time I got to the end, I was immensely curious to know more—and was glad to hear this is going to be a longer series. |
2024.03.16 19:17 _The_Leon_ Mi serve aiuto per la visual novel di Fate/stay night
Volevo iniziare a introdurmi nel mondo di Fate, e dopo aver guardato l’adattamento animato del 2006 sull’arco narrativo incentrato su Saber (l’anime é tratto da una visual novel che ha la possibilità di intraprendere tre percorsi diversi, e questo é per l’appunto il primo dei tre) ho visto qualche video su YouTube incentrato su come guardare Fate/Stay Night, e tutti dicevano che quella stagione da 24 episodi che ho guardato era proprio da evitare (essendo che tagliava parti importanti e mischiava gli eventi con le altre due strade possibili), e che invece per essere il più completo possibile, avrei dovuto giocare la visual novel Fate/Stay Night, ma dopo svariate ricerche non sono riuscito a trovare come comprarla/scaricarla da nessuna parte, ho provato dai video tutorial ai siti giapponesi tradotti con Google translate.
Quindi vorrei chiedere se ci fosse qualcuno che sappia come comprarla/scaricarla che mi spiegasse il metodo.
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Quindi vorrei chiedere se ci fosse qualcuno che sappia come comprarla/scaricarla che mi spiegasse il metodo.
2024.02.20 11:36 chocolatecookie45 Di lagu Cukup Siti Nurbaya ada arpeggiator??
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nf1nfQgjTasTSdUclCsDf?si=guMeLR4ASxaYYCmuC6pSKA
Bisa didenger kayak ada metronom gitu jalan di lagunya,tapi metronom yang kesannya bernada (Semoga kalian paham)
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Bisa didenger kayak ada metronom gitu jalan di lagunya,tapi metronom yang kesannya bernada (Semoga kalian paham)
2024.02.03 07:47 mamamudaenjoyer 10 Dosa Besar Lacus Clyne
 | Menindak lanjuti Postingan saya sebelumnya, Mari kita bahas 10 Dosar besar Madam submitted by mamamudaenjoyer to indowibu [link] [comments]
Tunangan nya dateng tiap hari ngasih buket bunga, Dikasih sticker orang hitam emuach aja enggak. Temen deket nyaris jomok tunangan nya malah dikasih Robot robotan, Hadeeh.
Minimal putus dulu lah, Sebelum garap main karambol sama sohib tunangan nya sendiri buset.
Tapi tidak semudah itu ferguso, Beliau abis nahan rahim turun 10 senti, Sudah saatnya garap berondong sohib tunangan nya di pantai selatan, mereka bermain kartu gapleh sampai membuat Tsunami lokal dengan gempa Dahsyat yang membuat kapal sebelah terombang ambing. Alhasil Dunia abis dia porak poranda in, Bukanya di beresin malah nyuruh orang lain yang sapi sapu, balik kacau lagi.
Lacus juga tau kok kalo meer gantiin dia. Tapi Bukannya ngehentiin langsung, Dia nunggu karir nya Meer lagi diatas atas nya, Biar bisa dia jatohin kayak Vtuber di doxxing punya pacar Femboy terus dipecat sama agensi nya. Emang psikopat ini madam, Pasti senyam senyum waktu Streaming terus ngedoxxing Meer, Pas Meer lagi Streaming Karaoke dan di tayangin di seluruh dunia.
Kira yang pengangguran, DO Kuliah ini ngelamar kerja dong, dengan kekuatan maha sakti yang dipertuan agung madam Lacus dan segala Subscriber yutub nya. Duarr, Kira pake orang dalem, Baru juga ngelamar udah make seragam putih ZAFT. Pantesan kesenjangan sosial Pribumi - Coordinator ga abis abis, Orang lowongan kerja nya dimainin HRD Madam.
Emang nunggu alesan aja buat ngeluarin nya. Dari awal udah ada niat jahil bikin prank sawadikap buat make nya.
Terus apa yang lacus lakukan? "ih senjata nya bagus, Di pasang di jidat robot selingkuhan aku bagus kayaknya." Lahirlah Mighty Strike Freedom dengan Jidat genesis nya. Konon katanya Judau mau nuntut hak cipta Jidat Laser Gundam nya cuman keburu dicegat simp nya madam. Perlu di ingetin ini Senjata yang mereka cap pembunuh masal Terlarang dan mereka hancurin. Demi Batang senang berondong favourite apa sih yang enggak - Madam. KawasLacusPenjahat #HaterNomor1Lacus #ClyneDurjana |
2024.02.01 15:13 RedditTraduction [Progression Fantasy] Inizio dopo la fine?
Quindi ho appena scoperto questo romanzo l'altro giorno e dopo aver acquistato i 7 volumi su Amazon ho già letto tutti.
Guardando online non trovo informazioni dettagliate ed ero un po 'confuso da quando ho scoperto molti siti Web WebNovel con il tag ancora in corso.
Quindi volevo sapere se l'autore ha già fatto finta di scrivere il webnovel e ora si concentra sui libri o sta facendo entrambi? E la data di uscita del libro 8?
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Guardando online non trovo informazioni dettagliate ed ero un po 'confuso da quando ho scoperto molti siti Web WebNovel con il tag ancora in corso.
Quindi volevo sapere se l'autore ha già fatto finta di scrivere il webnovel e ora si concentra sui libri o sta facendo entrambi? E la data di uscita del libro 8?
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2023.11.15 03:02 aristifer Bingo Review: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Stars: 3.5 (mix of good points and flaws that interfered with my enjoyment, judged to a somewhat more critical standard because of all the awards and hype)
Bingo Categories: Title with a Title (if “Master” counts), Set in the Middle East/Middle Eastern SFF, POC Author
Agent Fatma is an investigator of magic-related incidents in an alt-history, steampunk 1912 Cairo populated by magical beings like djinn, ifrits and ghuls. She is assigned to a murder investigation in which a secret society of British Egyptophiles have been killed by magical means; the chief suspect is a mysterious figure claiming to be al-Jahiz, the vanished Sudanese mystic who opened the portal that brought magic back into the world.
If this sounds like a pretty standard urban fantasy police procedural dressed up in Egyptian garb—well, yes.
In fairness, that Egyptian garb is where this story really shines. Egyptian culture infuses the narrative: the beings from Islamic mythology that populate the city, the bazaars of Cairo, the food, the clothing, the decor, the lurking presence of European colonial powers with designs on the region (though in this alternate history, Egypt has leveraged its magic to become a world power). Obviously, this is not meant to be a fully accurate reflection of early 20th century Egypt, given the other facets of the alternate timeline—we have steampunk technology like airships and clockwork golems referred to as boilerplate eunuchs, sects that actively worship the ancient Egyptian gods, and cultural mores that are a good deal more progressive than in our reality (same-sex relationships and female cross-dressing seem to be readily accepted, although it’s also explicitly discussed how many have not fully adjusted to women in the workplace). But given Clark’s credentials as a history scholar, I have to trust that his research is thorough, and that the aspects of the society presented as authentic are in fact so. He peppers Arabic words for things like food and clothing liberally throughout the text, without any translation or explanation—a valid choice which lends verisimilitude to the worldbuilding, but may also render some passages opaque for English-speakers unfamiliar with the vocabulary. I especially liked the many references to classic Arabic literature and how Clark uses them to add to not only the worldbuilding, but characterization and plot as well.
The prose is competent, though not of the quality that would make me sit back and admire it for its own sake. The tone of the narrative is fairly light, with characters both human and djinn showing their comic foibles in a way that is clearly intended to be endearing. At times this humorous touch felt like it was overly self-conscious and trying too hard. In fact, I found that a great deal of the plot, characterization and social commentary were delivered with a very heavy hand, at times verging on clumsy. A number of plot elements were reintroduced after being initially introduced in the novelette “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”—e.g. the "angels" that show up as a critical plot element late in Act 2 with no previous set-up, or what is clearly intended to be a *big reveal* about a certain stolen item that we are actually just hearing about for the first time in the current book. Reading A Master of Djinn first, these introductions felt abrupt and confusing, without the sense of shocked recognition described in the characters, which the reader was obviously supposed to feel as well. (Incidentally, I did go back to read “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” after finishing this novel, because I wanted to see what I had been missing. I found it to be a very rushed, wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am of a mystery, too fast to fit in any depth of character development or worldbuilding, or even any real sense of tension. So I’m not sure that actually solved the problems I had with A Master of Djinn).
The mystery here was ultimately disappointing as well—I spotted the true villain fairly early on, thanks to the blatantly transparent initials clue, then spent the rest of the book frustrated that Fatma overlooked what seemed extremely obvious. It felt especially painful given that she is an underestimated woman underestimating another woman. And it felt like far too much progress in solving the mystery came from Fatma questioning a person of interest and them simply handing her the information she needed to advance. (NB in “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” she is literally waylaid and pinned down by a stranger on the street who then takes her to an associate who explains the whole mystery to her. Great detective work, this is not).
The characterization in general felt rather one-note, verging on cartoony. The British characters in particular felt like fairly cardboard cutout racist imperialists, explicitly set up for mockery and condemnation—not an undeserved portrayal, and there were some lines of dialogue that were very satisfyingly skewering—but if you are looking for three-dimensional villains, this is not it. The text is extremely insistent that we accept Fatma as an amazing young prodigy of an investigator (despite the lackluster detective work I described above), and desperately wants us be charmed by how DAPPER and QUIRKY she is in her European men’s suits. Honestly, it felt kind of like being repeatedly whacked on the head with a bowler hat. Cross-dressing in foreign clothes is not an adequate substitute for a personality. I liked Hadia better, with her stylish modern hijabs, although the whole “I have a cousin…” schtick is very stale and really felt like a bit of a cultural stereotype. Siti just irritated me. She was constantly smug and coy, and had absolutely zero chemistry with Fatma (although I suppose no one really has chemistry with an empty suit). The villain, at the end, is reduced to a cackling, mustache-twirling caricature worthy of a Scooby-Doo mystery.
All the glowing reviews of this book talk about its critique of imperialism and colonialism, so I suppose I have to address that. Yes. It does critique imperialism and colonialism. But so do a significant number of other fantasy books I’ve read recently—it seems almost de rigeur for fantasy being published today. This is only natural—fantasy and science fiction tend toward the political, and we’re really just surfacing from a long stretch of time when conquest and hegemonic power were uncritically glorified, so it makes sense that a lot of SFF authors are now grappling with that pivot in perspective through fiction. (Top of mind for me are M.A. Carrick’s Rook and Rose series and Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire, both of which depict colonialism/imperialism with a great deal of nuance and sensitivity without pulling punches on the criticism). I didn’t find Clark’s novel to be especially remarkable in that regard. Because his fictional Egypt is not actually conquered or colonized, he’s not illustrating the perspective of a conquered or colonized people or exploring any complex dynamics between colonizers and colonized; all we see are toothless, would-be imperialist Brits bragging about their superiority in a way that deliberately positions them for ridicule. It’s funny, and satisfying, but I didn’t find it to be particularly incisive or sophisticated.
I listened to the audiobook. The narration is by Suehyla El-Attar, who is an American of Egyptian descent and does the whole thing in what I trust is an Egyptian accent. I know nothing about the nuances of Arabic or Egyptian accents, but it sounded good to me and I enjoyed that aspect of the narration. However, I found a lot of the voices to be very over acted to the point of being cartoony; the British accents were also very bad. One of the characters, Fatma’s partner Hadia, is described as having learned English in the States and speaking it with an American accent; those few lines of dialogue are the only times when the narrator slips into her natural American accent.
This is ultimately a light urban fantasy romp with strong comic book vibes, with weak plotting and characterization dressed up with novel and evocative worldbuilding. If it had been sold to me this way, I might still have read it and been inclined to be more generous with my rating, bumping it up to 4 stars for fulfilling expectations. However, all the awards hype along with Clark’s academic credentials led me to expect something much more nuanced and sophisticated—hence the more critical lens. I actually think this would make a great graphic novel—it’s full of powerful visual cues and action, and in the hands of the right artist, this could be absolutely gorgeous. If Clark ever puts out a graphic novel version—or a new story set in this world in graphic novel form—I would be tempted to buy it despite my complaints about this one. Beyond that, I’m not particularly motivated to read more in this world.
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Bingo Categories: Title with a Title (if “Master” counts), Set in the Middle East/Middle Eastern SFF, POC Author
Agent Fatma is an investigator of magic-related incidents in an alt-history, steampunk 1912 Cairo populated by magical beings like djinn, ifrits and ghuls. She is assigned to a murder investigation in which a secret society of British Egyptophiles have been killed by magical means; the chief suspect is a mysterious figure claiming to be al-Jahiz, the vanished Sudanese mystic who opened the portal that brought magic back into the world.
If this sounds like a pretty standard urban fantasy police procedural dressed up in Egyptian garb—well, yes.
In fairness, that Egyptian garb is where this story really shines. Egyptian culture infuses the narrative: the beings from Islamic mythology that populate the city, the bazaars of Cairo, the food, the clothing, the decor, the lurking presence of European colonial powers with designs on the region (though in this alternate history, Egypt has leveraged its magic to become a world power). Obviously, this is not meant to be a fully accurate reflection of early 20th century Egypt, given the other facets of the alternate timeline—we have steampunk technology like airships and clockwork golems referred to as boilerplate eunuchs, sects that actively worship the ancient Egyptian gods, and cultural mores that are a good deal more progressive than in our reality (same-sex relationships and female cross-dressing seem to be readily accepted, although it’s also explicitly discussed how many have not fully adjusted to women in the workplace). But given Clark’s credentials as a history scholar, I have to trust that his research is thorough, and that the aspects of the society presented as authentic are in fact so. He peppers Arabic words for things like food and clothing liberally throughout the text, without any translation or explanation—a valid choice which lends verisimilitude to the worldbuilding, but may also render some passages opaque for English-speakers unfamiliar with the vocabulary. I especially liked the many references to classic Arabic literature and how Clark uses them to add to not only the worldbuilding, but characterization and plot as well.
The prose is competent, though not of the quality that would make me sit back and admire it for its own sake. The tone of the narrative is fairly light, with characters both human and djinn showing their comic foibles in a way that is clearly intended to be endearing. At times this humorous touch felt like it was overly self-conscious and trying too hard. In fact, I found that a great deal of the plot, characterization and social commentary were delivered with a very heavy hand, at times verging on clumsy. A number of plot elements were reintroduced after being initially introduced in the novelette “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”—e.g. the "angels" that show up as a critical plot element late in Act 2 with no previous set-up, or what is clearly intended to be a *big reveal* about a certain stolen item that we are actually just hearing about for the first time in the current book. Reading A Master of Djinn first, these introductions felt abrupt and confusing, without the sense of shocked recognition described in the characters, which the reader was obviously supposed to feel as well. (Incidentally, I did go back to read “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” after finishing this novel, because I wanted to see what I had been missing. I found it to be a very rushed, wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am of a mystery, too fast to fit in any depth of character development or worldbuilding, or even any real sense of tension. So I’m not sure that actually solved the problems I had with A Master of Djinn).
The mystery here was ultimately disappointing as well—I spotted the true villain fairly early on, thanks to the blatantly transparent initials clue, then spent the rest of the book frustrated that Fatma overlooked what seemed extremely obvious. It felt especially painful given that she is an underestimated woman underestimating another woman. And it felt like far too much progress in solving the mystery came from Fatma questioning a person of interest and them simply handing her the information she needed to advance. (NB in “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” she is literally waylaid and pinned down by a stranger on the street who then takes her to an associate who explains the whole mystery to her. Great detective work, this is not).
The characterization in general felt rather one-note, verging on cartoony. The British characters in particular felt like fairly cardboard cutout racist imperialists, explicitly set up for mockery and condemnation—not an undeserved portrayal, and there were some lines of dialogue that were very satisfyingly skewering—but if you are looking for three-dimensional villains, this is not it. The text is extremely insistent that we accept Fatma as an amazing young prodigy of an investigator (despite the lackluster detective work I described above), and desperately wants us be charmed by how DAPPER and QUIRKY she is in her European men’s suits. Honestly, it felt kind of like being repeatedly whacked on the head with a bowler hat. Cross-dressing in foreign clothes is not an adequate substitute for a personality. I liked Hadia better, with her stylish modern hijabs, although the whole “I have a cousin…” schtick is very stale and really felt like a bit of a cultural stereotype. Siti just irritated me. She was constantly smug and coy, and had absolutely zero chemistry with Fatma (although I suppose no one really has chemistry with an empty suit). The villain, at the end, is reduced to a cackling, mustache-twirling caricature worthy of a Scooby-Doo mystery.
All the glowing reviews of this book talk about its critique of imperialism and colonialism, so I suppose I have to address that. Yes. It does critique imperialism and colonialism. But so do a significant number of other fantasy books I’ve read recently—it seems almost de rigeur for fantasy being published today. This is only natural—fantasy and science fiction tend toward the political, and we’re really just surfacing from a long stretch of time when conquest and hegemonic power were uncritically glorified, so it makes sense that a lot of SFF authors are now grappling with that pivot in perspective through fiction. (Top of mind for me are M.A. Carrick’s Rook and Rose series and Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire, both of which depict colonialism/imperialism with a great deal of nuance and sensitivity without pulling punches on the criticism). I didn’t find Clark’s novel to be especially remarkable in that regard. Because his fictional Egypt is not actually conquered or colonized, he’s not illustrating the perspective of a conquered or colonized people or exploring any complex dynamics between colonizers and colonized; all we see are toothless, would-be imperialist Brits bragging about their superiority in a way that deliberately positions them for ridicule. It’s funny, and satisfying, but I didn’t find it to be particularly incisive or sophisticated.
I listened to the audiobook. The narration is by Suehyla El-Attar, who is an American of Egyptian descent and does the whole thing in what I trust is an Egyptian accent. I know nothing about the nuances of Arabic or Egyptian accents, but it sounded good to me and I enjoyed that aspect of the narration. However, I found a lot of the voices to be very over acted to the point of being cartoony; the British accents were also very bad. One of the characters, Fatma’s partner Hadia, is described as having learned English in the States and speaking it with an American accent; those few lines of dialogue are the only times when the narrator slips into her natural American accent.
This is ultimately a light urban fantasy romp with strong comic book vibes, with weak plotting and characterization dressed up with novel and evocative worldbuilding. If it had been sold to me this way, I might still have read it and been inclined to be more generous with my rating, bumping it up to 4 stars for fulfilling expectations. However, all the awards hype along with Clark’s academic credentials led me to expect something much more nuanced and sophisticated—hence the more critical lens. I actually think this would make a great graphic novel—it’s full of powerful visual cues and action, and in the hands of the right artist, this could be absolutely gorgeous. If Clark ever puts out a graphic novel version—or a new story set in this world in graphic novel form—I would be tempted to buy it despite my complaints about this one. Beyond that, I’m not particularly motivated to read more in this world.
2023.10.26 17:34 TheLargestDuck Short Book Reviews 2: Electric Boogaloo
There are spoilers in here. If you care about that kind of thing (and why do people care about spoilers, I don't understand it, if a story relies entirely on surprise, then it's a bad story, ahhhhhhhhhhhh), don't read this I guess. Even though reviews are meant to give context/analysis to stories, which necessarily include talking about the stories . . .
Whatever. Point is, I don't want to get dinged by the mods for not marking this as containing SPOILERS! (Spooky, scary spoilers.)
Also this doesn't cover everything I've read in the past few months because a) I've read a lot and b) a lot of it I just don't have anything to say. Like, I read the first four Murderbot books and liked them but I mean, they're popcorn sci-fi. The themes are "are cyborgs people?" (yes, duh) and "corporations are kinda bad, you know," which is social commentary on the level of most mainstream entertainment and it doesn't have a different enough take on that for me to think much else about it. They're not bad, I certainly had a lot of fun, but I don't really feel compelled to talk about them beyond "Yeah. They're fun." I'll include a list of the stuff I've read that I liked or disliked but didn't write about at the end of this thing. No shade thrown to those books, I just don't really have anything to say about them.
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
I . . . don't really know how I feel about this novel. It's a horrothrillecharacter study/morality tale set in and around the US-Mexico border. My basic thoughts are: "It's good! It's neat! Boy there's a lot in here." So if any of those genre things I mentioned appeal to you, try it out.
The plot concerns our main character Mario and his wife losing their daughter to leukemia and Mario turning for work as a hitman for the cartel to pay the hospital bills (he's Hispanic and there's a lot of "fuck the US healthcare system" talk, which, you know, fair). The majority of the story takes place over the course of a handful of days as he and a couple other hitmen travel to Mexico to kill a rival cartel gang. Along the way there's all kinds of imagery and sequences that are incredibly gruesome and horrifying. There are some supernatural monsters in a tunnel beneath the border. There's a witch woman who eats a dude. There's a kid who's body parts bring good luck (allegedly). It's . . . a lot. There's also a great shoot-out scene at the end and lots of characters saying philosophical things about judgement, sin, crime, violence and death, which is basically catnip for me.
There's a lot to this book. It's something I want to reread. And it's why I can't really decide if I actually liked it, or just like thinking about it. But, regardless, it was certainly memorable.
His Secret Illuminations and Her Sacred Incantations by Scarlett Gale
It's smut! Look, unlike some weirdos in this sub, I'm not a prude. I like titties. I like sex scenes. I like romance. I like it when big buff warrior women absolutely wreck my shit.
Anyways, we follow Lucian who is a smol boy, from a totally not supposed to be conservative Catholic monastery where the boys take vows of chastity and abstinence to the Lord, whose life gets upended when big buff bisexual warrior woman Glory (a.k.a. The She-Wolf, yes he will call her this during some of the later sex scenes) sweeps him off his feet (quite literally) into the wider world. I'm just going to get this out of the way now: the worldbuilding is medieval Europe with a "vaguely fantasy" coating. But the worldbuilding doesn't matter. The romance does. And the romance is pretty good, at least in book 1.
My biggest problem (aside from getting kind of annoyed with the narration which is very sarcastic and "fanfic-y," for lack of a better term, and gets old after a while) is that while I understand why Lucian falls in love with Glory (come on, hot buff warrior woman who could crush my head with her thighs? sign me the fuck up), I don't really buy Glory falling in love with Lucian. Like, he's nice, sure. But they barely interact before the beginning of the book and I just don't get why Glory falls in love with him almost immediately. But this is fine in Illuminations, where the plot is mostly concerned with Lucian's internal conflict between his commitment to his vows and his desire for Glory, but when we get to Incantations, they've already confessed their love for one another and had lots of sex and have this incredibly sappy romance going on.
Book 2 has the problem of in order to keep the tension up, it relies on its external plot (which is really boring) and Lucian's hidden desire for Glory to dom the shit out of him. Which has no tension to it because, like I said, the external plot is really boring (something about an evil book and undead and who gives a shit) and their relationship is as solid as the various descriptions of Glory's muscles. Glory is very kind and careful and there's a lot of making sure Lucian is okay with pushing the bondage aspect of their relationship, but, again, there's no tension to it. Lucian basically just says, "Hey, I want you to dom me," and Glory says, "Bet," and then they have kinky sex, which, cool. Fine. Get pegged, my dude. But there's just not much else going on in their relationship beyond, "We love each other and like having sex."
The books are tied completely to Lucian's POV. We never get into anyone else's pants, I mean head. Again, for book 1 this is mostly fine, since its entirely Lucian's story. Book 2 however has to escalate, and the only way it can (because, again, the external plot is really boring) is by ramping up the intensity of the sex scenes. Which are fun and hot, but book 2 is less a story than a series of non-sex scenes while we twiddle our thumbs for the sex scenes. Not terrible by any means, I just think this should have been condensed into a single book and definitely needed a more dominating editor.
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
After five Malazan books of mostly increasing quality, this was the first Malazan book where I truly felt needed a bit more editing. My paperback copy is just over 1,200 pages long and I'm not trying to be an asshole who thinks that every book needs to be less than 500 pages or whatever, but The Bonehunters was a bit of a slog for me to get through. Books 1 through 5 can all be read as standalone. They wrap up their main plots by the end (while leaving plenty of loose ends for future books to pick up on). The Bonehunters, meanwhile, can only be understood in the context of the greater series, which is fine. That's what series are for: a story told over a certain number of parts that are required to be read in order. The problem for me, though, was that this felt like two novels smushed together. I liked it more than Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates (hot take: I don't think Deadhouse Gates is that much better than Gardens and that the series doesn't become great until Memories of Ice). It just doesn't feel like the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Individually, the elements of Bonehunters are just as good as any other Malazan story. But taken together, it feels somehow lesser and the stories don't cohere into a greater story, leaving Bonehunters feeling off-balance and disjointed a lot of the time.
There are three major fakeout deaths (although, I'm tempted to not include the Seige of Y'Ghatan since there's just a lot going on in that), there's a ton of plotlines going on, but unlike previous entries, they don't all converge at the end. It's more like, Tavore and the 14th's stuff is going on here and the defense of the Throne of Shadow is going on there and the two just happen to be going on at roughly the same time (I do kind of love the fact that even Erikson has given up trying to keep the timelines straight in this series). Bonehunters bit off more than it could chew, ultimately. It had to wrap up the Seven Cities and the Malazan Empire plotlines, while simultaneously getting all the players in position for Repear's Gale. It's not . . . elegant, the way books 2 through 5 were; it's messy and sprawling. But then, that's the contradiction of Malazan for you: an elegant mess that you more feel emotionally than understand intellectually.
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Volume One by Steven Erikson
These are the first three novellas staring Bauchelain and Korbal Broach and the various misadventures they get up to. If you've only read the novels, these guys and their manservant Emancipor Reece show up in Memories of Ice for . . . some reason. I didn't mention it in my review of Memories but they just sort of felt out of place there. Like, during the siege of Capustan, they're just kinda hanging around and no one really messes with them at all and then they leave. They feel like a trial run of the kind of Bert & Ernie-style comic relief that would characterize Tehol and Bugg in Midnight Tides, but they didn't really feel like they belonged in the Pannion storyline.
But here, they feel much more at home in these weird, silly, shockingly dark episodic adventures. Seriously, these stories are nasty. Sometimes too nasty, but I'll get to that. The first of these Blood Follows is the story of how Emancipor Reece comes to work for Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, and is the most straightforwardly basic out of the three. It's fun and fast and suitably gross, but it's purpose is only to explain how these guys meet.
The Lees of Laughter's End is a horror story on a boat, set immediately after Blood Follows. The boat gets attacked by zombies and like two-thirds of the cast dies hilariously gross deaths. The gross, ick factor gets ramped up to 11 here. It's also the book where Bauchelain rapes the captain of the ship and it's just kind of played off for laughs. Now Malazan is no stranger to rape, but in every instance beforehand it's a) not shown on-screen and b) treated very seriously and leaves lasting marks on the characters and story. It's never shown as anything but horrific and terrible. This scene is gross in ways I don't think Erikson intended. Like there's an attempt to play it off as consensual (for context, Bauchelain accidentally drank an aphrodisiac that makes him super horny and lose control that then spreads to the captain when he kisses her), which then backfires when the captain literally says, "I didn't consent." Now, in (mild) defense: Bauchelain is a bad guy. He's awful and cruel and terrible. But he's also supposed to be a fun kind of terrible, like a good superhero villain. It's just the one scene, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth and is just generally really uncomfortable.
Luckily, The Healthy Dead is the best of the bunch: a true black comedy of a city obsessed with health to the point of absurdity. It's wonderful. It's gross in the right ways. It's a slapstick farce that just gets even more absurd as the story goes on. It's great stuff and my favorite of the three by a long shot. Emancipor gets in way over his head and so he's just taking any and all substances he can to avoid thinking about Bauchelain and Korbal Broach's antics and accidentally brings down a tyrannical rule in the process.
These stories are not essential to the Malazan experience. They are explicitly just episodic adventures with their own vibes and rules that don't reflect on anything going on in the main sequence of novels. But they are (mostly) a lot of fun.
Golden Son and Morning Star by Pierce Brown
I didn't love Red Rising. I thought it was, for lack of a better term, amateurish. It felt like a teenager wanting to talk about these big important ideas but a) not having the skills to talk about them elegantly and b) getting distracted by cool fight scenes.
Golden Son is a much smoother ride. You can feel the difference in confidence between Red Rising and Golden Son. Brown is a much better writer here on all fronts. The pacing isn't as wonky, the plot is a lot more compelling, the character work is sharper. And yet . . . I thought it was just good. It was fun. It was exciting. I liked it a lot. Maybe it's the fact that I knew pretty early on where it was going (it's not like Brown is subtle about literally anything), but knowing Darrow was going to rise to the top and then get betrayed because . . . well . . . that's the arc of this kind of story. He has to rise over and over again because he's the underdog. You can't be an underdog if you start at the top. And that's why I didn't love Golden Son. It's Empire Strikes Back, The Two Towers, or any number of second installments in a trilogy that, on some level, is about setting up the grand climax for part 3. Golden Son's twist is doing the big war thing in book 2 which book 3 then escalates on top of (to a suitably ridiculous degree), but throughout the entire novel, I knew where we were going and I knew why we were going there, which sapped some of the excitement from the story. Again, this isn't bad, but, for me at least, it wasn't the high point of the series everyone expected seems to think it is.
Admittedly, I am a sucker for melodrama. And Morning Star is--at its core--a big silly melodrama set in space with superheroes. Everything is big: big battles, big speeches, big character moments, big people saying big speeches in big battles. Darrow, after getting captured at the end of Golden Son, is rescued by the Sons of Ares, now under the control of Sevro. And he has to unite the clans to kick ass, take names, get his girl back, save his friends and family and blow lots of shit up. It's a grand climax and a ride I had a ton of fun going on. The Jackal is suitably scary, the Sovereign is suitably evil, Aja is a great minion and final boss fight. Ragnar's death was sad. Victra's character arc was great (she's a fan favorite, and I completely understand why). Sevro finally grows up. And, yes, Darrow, gets the girl. If there's one criticism I have its that Sefi switches to Darrow's side remarkably fast. Like, almost immediately. I get that she's already on the fence about how much she actually buys the word of her mother, but it just felt really abrupt to me. They meet, Darrow's like, "Your entire world is a lie," and Sefi's like, "I know. Let's go kill some dudes about it," and then they just go and do that. But other than that, all around, I loved this book. Again, Pierce Brown isn't a subtle writer, but endings are where stories tend to get the most interesting (from a classic trilogy structure, anyways), and Morning Star is just a blast from start to finish.
Anyway, I'm sure I've pissed someone off by saying Morning Star is better than Golden Son, so let's move on to something without as rabid a fanbase as Red Rising.
Monk and Robot series by Becky Chambers
I read To Be Taught, If Fortunate last year and hated it. The characters were all one-note and interchangeable (seriously, I cannot recall any of their names). The plot explicitly promised a Martian-style "we gotta science our way out of this" and then just . . . didn't do that. The characters are all felt like whiny sociology grad students too afraid about saying something wrong to say anything at all. And, most egregiously, the thematic subtext of the story contradicted its own worldbuilding. It presented an anti-colonial space exploration story set against a backdrop of a climate disaster Earth in desperate need to figure out something, then the novel ended with the characters deciding to do nothing about anything. Like. What? A story about scientists. In which they do basically no science and decide that what little knowledge they've accumulated they're just going to hoard until someone else tells them what to do. It was infuriating, and I desperately hoped that To Be Taught was just a fluke.
Luckily, Monk and Robot is way better. At least, book 1 is.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built is the story of Sibling Dex, a tea monk who travels around serving as basically people's therapist. But Dex is dissatisfied with the utopian, agrarian society they live in and so goes off into the woods to figure out stuff. They meet Mosscap, a robot, who has ventured close to human territory to basically see what's going on with people. It's a cute little story about Dex trying to figure out why they're not happy when they should be. This time, the worldbuilding actually works with the story instead of against it like To Be Taught. It's not a particularly shocking conclusion, but it is satisfying because all the elements worked together this time instead of fighting against each other. I mean, I have critiques of the philosophy at play here, but setting this kind of question in a world where literally everyone's basic needs are met and there is no prejudice, lets those critiques slide away. There's a kind of simplicity to asking BIG QUESTIONS when your world is fundamentally kind, in a way that just wouldn't work if you set it in our world with all the pressures, contradictions and (gestures around) real world shit we have to deal with. So Dex goes on a journey into the woods to self-actualize and kick depression's ass. Great!
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is not as good. The biggest problem it has, by far, is a lack of a reason to exist. Ostensibly, this is Mosscap's story, who goes through it's own existential crisis as Dex and Mosscap venture into human territory, but Mosscap is already self-actualized. It already knows its purpose, so it feels just weirdly out of place when it suddenly wonders what to do with itself. Dex, meanwhile, goes through the exact same character arc they did in the first book. I kind of see what Chambers was going for (depression is a bitch, after all; there's no real getting over it, just learning to live with it), but it falls flat because we already went through this in Psalm. Prayer is just "Dex and Mosscap meet some human people and talk about the same things they talked about in the first book." Prayer, as a series of events, is fine. But these books are about the subtext, the themes, almost explicitly, so it feels cheap that it just goes through the same motions again instead of adding something to it.
(Also, just because this bothers me personally: there's a weird undercurrent of hate thrown at monogamy, which feels out of place in such a utopian society these books present. Like, sure, you have a preference in relationship dynamics, Becky Chambers, but like, maybe don't tell me that wanting to be with only one person is evil somehow. And before people get onto me, I don't care if people practice polyamory, do what you want as long as you aren't harming others. It's just the way that Chambers presents monogamy as "wrong" that bothers me.)
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
This is disappointing. Which sucks because I really enjoyed The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and the previous short story featuring Fatma, "A Dead Djinn in Cairo." Master of Djinn is a steampunk, alternate history, fantasy, mystery, romance (sorta) novel that's just less than the sum of its parts.
I loved the worldbuilding; it's easily the book's greatest strength. Crime fiction (regardless of if there's magic or not) is as much about its setting as it is about the actual mystery. And man, magical Cairo is awesome. I liked the main characters even if none of them are particularly deep. The setup for the mystery is great. Fatma and Siti had great chemistry and even if I have some problems with elements of their relationship (I'll get to that in a bit), I did believe in them and root for their relationship to work out.
I have two big problems though.
First and foremost: strip everything else from the story and we have, at its core, a murder mystery. Except you can basically figure out who the murderer was immediately and, while, I was technically wrong about her motives, the actual reason was just kind of boring. And Fatma is a bad detective. Not a bad detective in, like, a moral way (she's an upstanding citizen and does the right thing for right reasons), but bad as in not good at her job. Seriously, it takes like two-thirds of the story before she figures out that the bad guy can control djinn (as if the title didn't give that away), after she's seen her command djinn who then immediately do whatever they say. It's just . . . how did you not figure that out Fatma? The joy of a good detective story is that the detective, on some level, needs to be smarter than you. You are reading their story because you want to dazzled by their brilliance. But Fatma is just kinda dumb, which wouldn't be a problem except the story constantly says she's amazing at her job.
Second: a running theme throughout the book is the various tensions and prejudices between social, religious, and ethnic groups, and even along gender lines (women, for instance, only recently got the right to vote before the novel started). But not sexuality. Which is a problem when the main romance is a lesbian one in 1912 Middle East, a region that is historically (at least since being colonized by Western powers) is not kind to the gays. In-universe, it's only been like 30ish years since Egypt kicked out the English and it's just really weird to me that for all the care about thinking through how these various groups would react to the presence of magic and magical creatures, Clark just got gunshy about dealing with sexuality. And it's not like Fatma and Siti hide it; several characters comment on their relationship. If this was set in a fully different world, fine, whatever. I wouldn't care. But Cairo is a real place with a real history and, like, right now in 2023, Egypt is not kind to LGBT people. I just cannot believe that magic appeared, the British got kicked out and everyone suddenly became cool with the gays. I like Fatma and Siti's relationship, but it feels completely divorced from the world they live in. People give Siti shit for her ethnicity, but they don't care she's banging a woman? Sure.
I have other complaints, but they're relatively minor compared to those two. Like, the plot is predictable. The villain's comeuppance is . . . kinda uncomfy (the evil white woman gets mindwiped by the djinn, and sure, fictional revenge on the British . . . except when you realize that that act in and of itself is also playing into tropes of the savage ravaging the white girl. I don't know, this is getting out of my wheelhouse but it felt kind of off to me, and even Fatma says it was kind of fucked up). With the exception of Siti, every other side character is one-note and forgettable (Fatma has a partner whose name I immediately forgot after finishing the book). Oh, and A Master of Djinn doesn't really make sense if you haven't read "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" (which is available for free online, admittedly, but is still annoying, since the villain's whole plan relies on knowledge of what happens in that story).
I didn't hate A Master of Djinn, but it was disappointing. I'm hoping future adventures with Fatma are better.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
This is one of the more conflicted reading experiences I've had recently. To start with, Addie LaRue is great. I really enjoyed the story and the themes and the writing (seriously, just on a sentence-by-sentence level, this is probably the best written book on this list, except for maybe The Devil Takes You Home). I'm admittedly a sucker for melodrama and this book has that in spades. There's a lot in here about the power of art and storytelling and love. There's a Faustian bargain. It's great. I really, really liked it. I've heard criticism that it's a very Euro-centric POV about art and, yeah, that's true, though that aspect doesn't bother me. Addie is a Frenchwoman, so it makes sense to me that she sticks around Europe and the US. If there's one legit criticism I have of the book, it's that I kind of wished it had leaned into the sleaze a bit more. Like, sure, art is good and beautiful and inspiring and all that; that's true. But art is also gross, nasty and just plain mean a lot of the time too (trangressive horror fiction is a vibrant subgenre whose whole thing is making the audience as uncomfortable as possible, for example).
By focusing just on the "beautiful," The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue kind of feels like a stereotypical white-girl Instagram account at times: only the pretty, only the "aesthetic," not really challenging anything, just regurgitating the same kind of tired old platitudes about art we've all heard over and over again. Addie is 300 years old, but she's only inspired the "good" art during that time. I just think it was a missed opportunity that she never seemed to inspire anything that was harmful, gross, mean-spirited, petty, etc. Art is many things, and not all of it is meant to make us "feel good". To quote jazz musician Dave Liebman: "What is this 'feeling good' bullshit? John Coltrane didn't write A Love Supreme because it 'felt good.' " I mean, hell, one of this year's biggest films is Oppenheimer, a scathing takedown of how men's ambitions can get co-opted into making monstrous things. I didn't leave the theatre "feeling good" about the history of the atomic bomb. It's a movie that doesn't want you to "feel good"; indeed, quite the opposite. Addie LaRue, I think, would only have been strengthened by leaning into that side of art as well. Addie has incredible power to plant ideas, but they only become inspiring, hopeful, beautiful ideas, which is Schwab's intent, I admit, but . . . I guess it's more a philosophical difference between me and her.
At the same time, however, I kind of hated Henry and his supporting cast. Not in a "they're badly written" way, but in the fact that I've met people like Henry, Bea and Robbie, and had very negative experiences with people similar to them. This is more of a personal thing, admittedly. I just cannot stand theatre people. Or at least, this kind of theatre people. Robbie, in particular, rubbed me the wrong way, not because he's gay, but because my read on him is that he's a manipulative, sex-obsessed, narcissistic asshole who uses his "art cred" to sleep with people and dazzles everyone with his big art brain to avoid anyone criticizing him too deeply. I genuinely do not understand what Henry (or Schwab, for that matter) sees in the guy (especially since there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment of Robbie getting thrown under the bus for being biphobic). Bea, for what it matters, has one of my least favorite lesbian tropes: going after the older married woman in order to, I don't know, prove that women in heterosexual relationships are actually just repressing their queerness and should sleep with younger college girls in order to figure out their shit. I know people who've done just that and it's gross. Cheating is not attractive and if you knowingly sleep with someone in a relationship, you're an asshole, full stop. (Not even getting into the really uncomfortable power dynamics there.) Granted, that part of her character happened off-screen before the book starts and is only referenced a couple of times, but it left a bad taste in my mouth, because otherwise, I liked Bea as a character. She's the most down-to-earth character in Henry's circle (a much-needed presence in a cast of manic artist types), but I just wish Schwab didn't have that detail about her, because it throws a bad light onto Bea and just made me suspicious of her motivations, and, more importantly, wasn't necessary at all.
Henry is a better character than Addie. Addie is an idea more than a character, which is part of the point, but does leave Addie feeling hard to feel much for. She's had an impossible thing happen to her and lives an impossible life. She's--by design--insulated from the world in nearly every way. Henry, on the other hand, can impact the world around him, but like Addie, he never gives in to his baser impulses. I mean sure, in some of his flashbacks he does drugs and has sex with random people and even gets into a threesome, but those aren't particularly trangressive things to do. He's the golden boy, the one who can never do wrong, and I just wish Schwab had fully extrapolated out what kind of mark this person would leave in the world. Henry has incredible power to leave people damaged, but he never does. Not really a criticism, per se, I suppose, but more of a missed opportunity. But in terms of Henry's depression, it--like the rest of Addie LaRue--is very melodramatic and exaggerated, but in a way that kind of worked for me. My own battles with depression felt--emotionally--similar to Henry's. I've had nights where I can't get out of my own head and the only way I can think is by drinking myself into a stupor to just get things to quiet down. That element of Henry was by far the most relatable aspect of his character to me.
All that being said, if you take Addie LaRue on its own terms, it's wonderful. I loved the relationship between Addie and Henry. The novel ends pretty much the only way this kind of story can end, but Schwab is a good enough writer to make it land with the appropriate enough gutpunch. The moment-to-moment reading of it was fantastic. It wasn't until I put the book down and thought about it that I wished it had done more with its premise. Pretty is nice; but pretty isn't everything, and Addie LaRue, for all its musing about art and beauty, never seems willing to muse about the dark side of art.
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
I enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge's first novel in the "Zones of Thought" universe. It was big, epic, fun sci-fi that, surprisingly, felt super modern, especially in the ways various cultures reacted to the big bad "The Blight." Misinformation was the name of the game there. That aspect was easily it's most interesting, more in the fact that Fire came out in the early 90s, well before the rise of social media and its various ills. But I also don't really have much else to say about Fire beyond "It's good! Go read it!"
A Deepness in the Sky, however, I found just as compelling to read, but a lot more interesting to think about.
Technically, it's a prequel to Fire (the only recurring character is Pham Nuwen) but it's functionally it's set in its own universe (there's deeply buried lore stuff about how the Zones of Thought work, but it doesn't really affect anything in this book, so don't worry about it).
Deepness is a story about culture. Or rather, about how cultures interact. The main plot is about a group of traders who get hijacked by a group of slavers who then are forced to meld their cultures together in order to survive the harsh conditions of space (no FTL travel in this universe) after their ships are damaged. They end up in orbit around a planet of spiderpeople and a lot of the book is taken up by the mind-slaves basically just watching and recording the spiderpeople. There's a lot in here about colonialism and how cultures change and evolve when they meet different cultures. My favorite aspect is how the spider people are presented: basically World War 2 era US, with their own version of the Manhatten Project. At first, it's a little disappointing that the spiders feel so human, but the twist Vinge does with this is so much better: the spider people have been playing the humans all along, making themselves seem human-like to the humans orbiting above them so that the various competing factions of spider people can get access to the humans' more advanced technology. Critically, the spiders aren't described visually very much (beyond referring to extra legs and fangs and the like), so the reader is kind of forced to imagine them as human. (There's plot reasons why the humans don't get a visual look at the spiders until near the end.) And when they're finally revealed at the end, it comes as a shock just how different they really are and how much the humans have been projecting onto the spiders.
Vinge is a very plot-heavy writer and there's a lot of plot to this book. But suffice to say, it's super compelling, easy to follow, and asks interesting questions that, yes, are big sci-fi ideas but also serve as reflections for modern day questions about cultural appropriation, cultural change, tradition and so on. It's not as fast-moving a plot as Fire, but for my money, it's far richer in ideas, while also telling a kick ass story where everyone is trying to out-manipulate everyone else.
Other Stuff I've Read But Don't Have Much to Talk About
I Liked These
The Murderbot Diaries (#1 - #4) by Martha Wells (they're fun)
The Indian Lake Trilogy (#1 - #2) by Stephen Graham Jones (they're fun and nasty)
The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu (honestly, I just don't know how to talk about these books, beyond going, "They're really good.")
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (I feel like I should have something to say about this, but I really don't; I did really enjoy it, though)
Legion series by Brandon Sanderson (short, fast, fun, cool concept)
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (like Perdido Street Station, I feel like I should have something to say about this book, but I don't; it's great though, probably my favorite book in this list)
The Fisherman by John Langan (it's . . . okay. I liked it, but it's not as interesting as I thought it would be; some great spooky fish monsters though.)
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (it's a classic sci-fi epic for a reason; I had a lot of fun reading this)
I Didn't Like These
The Redemption of Time by Baoshu (authorized fanfiction to the Three-Body series; I was morbidly curious and it's a waste of time)
Warriors of Understone by B. K. Bass (it's just boring, with the saving grace that's its really short)
No Demons But Us by A. S. Etaski (DNF'd this; the main character rapes someone and the author just portrays it as not a terrible thing. It's not the old school "kiss her until she gives in" kind of non-consent. It's full-on explicit rape. So, yeah, fuck this book.)
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Whatever. Point is, I don't want to get dinged by the mods for not marking this as containing SPOILERS! (Spooky, scary spoilers.)
Also this doesn't cover everything I've read in the past few months because a) I've read a lot and b) a lot of it I just don't have anything to say. Like, I read the first four Murderbot books and liked them but I mean, they're popcorn sci-fi. The themes are "are cyborgs people?" (yes, duh) and "corporations are kinda bad, you know," which is social commentary on the level of most mainstream entertainment and it doesn't have a different enough take on that for me to think much else about it. They're not bad, I certainly had a lot of fun, but I don't really feel compelled to talk about them beyond "Yeah. They're fun." I'll include a list of the stuff I've read that I liked or disliked but didn't write about at the end of this thing. No shade thrown to those books, I just don't really have anything to say about them.
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
I . . . don't really know how I feel about this novel. It's a horrothrillecharacter study/morality tale set in and around the US-Mexico border. My basic thoughts are: "It's good! It's neat! Boy there's a lot in here." So if any of those genre things I mentioned appeal to you, try it out.
The plot concerns our main character Mario and his wife losing their daughter to leukemia and Mario turning for work as a hitman for the cartel to pay the hospital bills (he's Hispanic and there's a lot of "fuck the US healthcare system" talk, which, you know, fair). The majority of the story takes place over the course of a handful of days as he and a couple other hitmen travel to Mexico to kill a rival cartel gang. Along the way there's all kinds of imagery and sequences that are incredibly gruesome and horrifying. There are some supernatural monsters in a tunnel beneath the border. There's a witch woman who eats a dude. There's a kid who's body parts bring good luck (allegedly). It's . . . a lot. There's also a great shoot-out scene at the end and lots of characters saying philosophical things about judgement, sin, crime, violence and death, which is basically catnip for me.
There's a lot to this book. It's something I want to reread. And it's why I can't really decide if I actually liked it, or just like thinking about it. But, regardless, it was certainly memorable.
His Secret Illuminations and Her Sacred Incantations by Scarlett Gale
It's smut! Look, unlike some weirdos in this sub, I'm not a prude. I like titties. I like sex scenes. I like romance. I like it when big buff warrior women absolutely wreck my shit.
Anyways, we follow Lucian who is a smol boy, from a totally not supposed to be conservative Catholic monastery where the boys take vows of chastity and abstinence to the Lord, whose life gets upended when big buff bisexual warrior woman Glory (a.k.a. The She-Wolf, yes he will call her this during some of the later sex scenes) sweeps him off his feet (quite literally) into the wider world. I'm just going to get this out of the way now: the worldbuilding is medieval Europe with a "vaguely fantasy" coating. But the worldbuilding doesn't matter. The romance does. And the romance is pretty good, at least in book 1.
My biggest problem (aside from getting kind of annoyed with the narration which is very sarcastic and "fanfic-y," for lack of a better term, and gets old after a while) is that while I understand why Lucian falls in love with Glory (come on, hot buff warrior woman who could crush my head with her thighs? sign me the fuck up), I don't really buy Glory falling in love with Lucian. Like, he's nice, sure. But they barely interact before the beginning of the book and I just don't get why Glory falls in love with him almost immediately. But this is fine in Illuminations, where the plot is mostly concerned with Lucian's internal conflict between his commitment to his vows and his desire for Glory, but when we get to Incantations, they've already confessed their love for one another and had lots of sex and have this incredibly sappy romance going on.
Book 2 has the problem of in order to keep the tension up, it relies on its external plot (which is really boring) and Lucian's hidden desire for Glory to dom the shit out of him. Which has no tension to it because, like I said, the external plot is really boring (something about an evil book and undead and who gives a shit) and their relationship is as solid as the various descriptions of Glory's muscles. Glory is very kind and careful and there's a lot of making sure Lucian is okay with pushing the bondage aspect of their relationship, but, again, there's no tension to it. Lucian basically just says, "Hey, I want you to dom me," and Glory says, "Bet," and then they have kinky sex, which, cool. Fine. Get pegged, my dude. But there's just not much else going on in their relationship beyond, "We love each other and like having sex."
The books are tied completely to Lucian's POV. We never get into anyone else's pants, I mean head. Again, for book 1 this is mostly fine, since its entirely Lucian's story. Book 2 however has to escalate, and the only way it can (because, again, the external plot is really boring) is by ramping up the intensity of the sex scenes. Which are fun and hot, but book 2 is less a story than a series of non-sex scenes while we twiddle our thumbs for the sex scenes. Not terrible by any means, I just think this should have been condensed into a single book and definitely needed a more dominating editor.
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
After five Malazan books of mostly increasing quality, this was the first Malazan book where I truly felt needed a bit more editing. My paperback copy is just over 1,200 pages long and I'm not trying to be an asshole who thinks that every book needs to be less than 500 pages or whatever, but The Bonehunters was a bit of a slog for me to get through. Books 1 through 5 can all be read as standalone. They wrap up their main plots by the end (while leaving plenty of loose ends for future books to pick up on). The Bonehunters, meanwhile, can only be understood in the context of the greater series, which is fine. That's what series are for: a story told over a certain number of parts that are required to be read in order. The problem for me, though, was that this felt like two novels smushed together. I liked it more than Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates (hot take: I don't think Deadhouse Gates is that much better than Gardens and that the series doesn't become great until Memories of Ice). It just doesn't feel like the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Individually, the elements of Bonehunters are just as good as any other Malazan story. But taken together, it feels somehow lesser and the stories don't cohere into a greater story, leaving Bonehunters feeling off-balance and disjointed a lot of the time.
There are three major fakeout deaths (although, I'm tempted to not include the Seige of Y'Ghatan since there's just a lot going on in that), there's a ton of plotlines going on, but unlike previous entries, they don't all converge at the end. It's more like, Tavore and the 14th's stuff is going on here and the defense of the Throne of Shadow is going on there and the two just happen to be going on at roughly the same time (I do kind of love the fact that even Erikson has given up trying to keep the timelines straight in this series). Bonehunters bit off more than it could chew, ultimately. It had to wrap up the Seven Cities and the Malazan Empire plotlines, while simultaneously getting all the players in position for Repear's Gale. It's not . . . elegant, the way books 2 through 5 were; it's messy and sprawling. But then, that's the contradiction of Malazan for you: an elegant mess that you more feel emotionally than understand intellectually.
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Volume One by Steven Erikson
These are the first three novellas staring Bauchelain and Korbal Broach and the various misadventures they get up to. If you've only read the novels, these guys and their manservant Emancipor Reece show up in Memories of Ice for . . . some reason. I didn't mention it in my review of Memories but they just sort of felt out of place there. Like, during the siege of Capustan, they're just kinda hanging around and no one really messes with them at all and then they leave. They feel like a trial run of the kind of Bert & Ernie-style comic relief that would characterize Tehol and Bugg in Midnight Tides, but they didn't really feel like they belonged in the Pannion storyline.
But here, they feel much more at home in these weird, silly, shockingly dark episodic adventures. Seriously, these stories are nasty. Sometimes too nasty, but I'll get to that. The first of these Blood Follows is the story of how Emancipor Reece comes to work for Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, and is the most straightforwardly basic out of the three. It's fun and fast and suitably gross, but it's purpose is only to explain how these guys meet.
The Lees of Laughter's End is a horror story on a boat, set immediately after Blood Follows. The boat gets attacked by zombies and like two-thirds of the cast dies hilariously gross deaths. The gross, ick factor gets ramped up to 11 here. It's also the book where Bauchelain rapes the captain of the ship and it's just kind of played off for laughs. Now Malazan is no stranger to rape, but in every instance beforehand it's a) not shown on-screen and b) treated very seriously and leaves lasting marks on the characters and story. It's never shown as anything but horrific and terrible. This scene is gross in ways I don't think Erikson intended. Like there's an attempt to play it off as consensual (for context, Bauchelain accidentally drank an aphrodisiac that makes him super horny and lose control that then spreads to the captain when he kisses her), which then backfires when the captain literally says, "I didn't consent." Now, in (mild) defense: Bauchelain is a bad guy. He's awful and cruel and terrible. But he's also supposed to be a fun kind of terrible, like a good superhero villain. It's just the one scene, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth and is just generally really uncomfortable.
Luckily, The Healthy Dead is the best of the bunch: a true black comedy of a city obsessed with health to the point of absurdity. It's wonderful. It's gross in the right ways. It's a slapstick farce that just gets even more absurd as the story goes on. It's great stuff and my favorite of the three by a long shot. Emancipor gets in way over his head and so he's just taking any and all substances he can to avoid thinking about Bauchelain and Korbal Broach's antics and accidentally brings down a tyrannical rule in the process.
These stories are not essential to the Malazan experience. They are explicitly just episodic adventures with their own vibes and rules that don't reflect on anything going on in the main sequence of novels. But they are (mostly) a lot of fun.
Golden Son and Morning Star by Pierce Brown
I didn't love Red Rising. I thought it was, for lack of a better term, amateurish. It felt like a teenager wanting to talk about these big important ideas but a) not having the skills to talk about them elegantly and b) getting distracted by cool fight scenes.
Golden Son is a much smoother ride. You can feel the difference in confidence between Red Rising and Golden Son. Brown is a much better writer here on all fronts. The pacing isn't as wonky, the plot is a lot more compelling, the character work is sharper. And yet . . . I thought it was just good. It was fun. It was exciting. I liked it a lot. Maybe it's the fact that I knew pretty early on where it was going (it's not like Brown is subtle about literally anything), but knowing Darrow was going to rise to the top and then get betrayed because . . . well . . . that's the arc of this kind of story. He has to rise over and over again because he's the underdog. You can't be an underdog if you start at the top. And that's why I didn't love Golden Son. It's Empire Strikes Back, The Two Towers, or any number of second installments in a trilogy that, on some level, is about setting up the grand climax for part 3. Golden Son's twist is doing the big war thing in book 2 which book 3 then escalates on top of (to a suitably ridiculous degree), but throughout the entire novel, I knew where we were going and I knew why we were going there, which sapped some of the excitement from the story. Again, this isn't bad, but, for me at least, it wasn't the high point of the series everyone expected seems to think it is.
Admittedly, I am a sucker for melodrama. And Morning Star is--at its core--a big silly melodrama set in space with superheroes. Everything is big: big battles, big speeches, big character moments, big people saying big speeches in big battles. Darrow, after getting captured at the end of Golden Son, is rescued by the Sons of Ares, now under the control of Sevro. And he has to unite the clans to kick ass, take names, get his girl back, save his friends and family and blow lots of shit up. It's a grand climax and a ride I had a ton of fun going on. The Jackal is suitably scary, the Sovereign is suitably evil, Aja is a great minion and final boss fight. Ragnar's death was sad. Victra's character arc was great (she's a fan favorite, and I completely understand why). Sevro finally grows up. And, yes, Darrow, gets the girl. If there's one criticism I have its that Sefi switches to Darrow's side remarkably fast. Like, almost immediately. I get that she's already on the fence about how much she actually buys the word of her mother, but it just felt really abrupt to me. They meet, Darrow's like, "Your entire world is a lie," and Sefi's like, "I know. Let's go kill some dudes about it," and then they just go and do that. But other than that, all around, I loved this book. Again, Pierce Brown isn't a subtle writer, but endings are where stories tend to get the most interesting (from a classic trilogy structure, anyways), and Morning Star is just a blast from start to finish.
Anyway, I'm sure I've pissed someone off by saying Morning Star is better than Golden Son, so let's move on to something without as rabid a fanbase as Red Rising.
Monk and Robot series by Becky Chambers
I read To Be Taught, If Fortunate last year and hated it. The characters were all one-note and interchangeable (seriously, I cannot recall any of their names). The plot explicitly promised a Martian-style "we gotta science our way out of this" and then just . . . didn't do that. The characters are all felt like whiny sociology grad students too afraid about saying something wrong to say anything at all. And, most egregiously, the thematic subtext of the story contradicted its own worldbuilding. It presented an anti-colonial space exploration story set against a backdrop of a climate disaster Earth in desperate need to figure out something, then the novel ended with the characters deciding to do nothing about anything. Like. What? A story about scientists. In which they do basically no science and decide that what little knowledge they've accumulated they're just going to hoard until someone else tells them what to do. It was infuriating, and I desperately hoped that To Be Taught was just a fluke.
Luckily, Monk and Robot is way better. At least, book 1 is.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built is the story of Sibling Dex, a tea monk who travels around serving as basically people's therapist. But Dex is dissatisfied with the utopian, agrarian society they live in and so goes off into the woods to figure out stuff. They meet Mosscap, a robot, who has ventured close to human territory to basically see what's going on with people. It's a cute little story about Dex trying to figure out why they're not happy when they should be. This time, the worldbuilding actually works with the story instead of against it like To Be Taught. It's not a particularly shocking conclusion, but it is satisfying because all the elements worked together this time instead of fighting against each other. I mean, I have critiques of the philosophy at play here, but setting this kind of question in a world where literally everyone's basic needs are met and there is no prejudice, lets those critiques slide away. There's a kind of simplicity to asking BIG QUESTIONS when your world is fundamentally kind, in a way that just wouldn't work if you set it in our world with all the pressures, contradictions and (gestures around) real world shit we have to deal with. So Dex goes on a journey into the woods to self-actualize and kick depression's ass. Great!
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is not as good. The biggest problem it has, by far, is a lack of a reason to exist. Ostensibly, this is Mosscap's story, who goes through it's own existential crisis as Dex and Mosscap venture into human territory, but Mosscap is already self-actualized. It already knows its purpose, so it feels just weirdly out of place when it suddenly wonders what to do with itself. Dex, meanwhile, goes through the exact same character arc they did in the first book. I kind of see what Chambers was going for (depression is a bitch, after all; there's no real getting over it, just learning to live with it), but it falls flat because we already went through this in Psalm. Prayer is just "Dex and Mosscap meet some human people and talk about the same things they talked about in the first book." Prayer, as a series of events, is fine. But these books are about the subtext, the themes, almost explicitly, so it feels cheap that it just goes through the same motions again instead of adding something to it.
(Also, just because this bothers me personally: there's a weird undercurrent of hate thrown at monogamy, which feels out of place in such a utopian society these books present. Like, sure, you have a preference in relationship dynamics, Becky Chambers, but like, maybe don't tell me that wanting to be with only one person is evil somehow. And before people get onto me, I don't care if people practice polyamory, do what you want as long as you aren't harming others. It's just the way that Chambers presents monogamy as "wrong" that bothers me.)
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
This is disappointing. Which sucks because I really enjoyed The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and the previous short story featuring Fatma, "A Dead Djinn in Cairo." Master of Djinn is a steampunk, alternate history, fantasy, mystery, romance (sorta) novel that's just less than the sum of its parts.
I loved the worldbuilding; it's easily the book's greatest strength. Crime fiction (regardless of if there's magic or not) is as much about its setting as it is about the actual mystery. And man, magical Cairo is awesome. I liked the main characters even if none of them are particularly deep. The setup for the mystery is great. Fatma and Siti had great chemistry and even if I have some problems with elements of their relationship (I'll get to that in a bit), I did believe in them and root for their relationship to work out.
I have two big problems though.
First and foremost: strip everything else from the story and we have, at its core, a murder mystery. Except you can basically figure out who the murderer was immediately and, while, I was technically wrong about her motives, the actual reason was just kind of boring. And Fatma is a bad detective. Not a bad detective in, like, a moral way (she's an upstanding citizen and does the right thing for right reasons), but bad as in not good at her job. Seriously, it takes like two-thirds of the story before she figures out that the bad guy can control djinn (as if the title didn't give that away), after she's seen her command djinn who then immediately do whatever they say. It's just . . . how did you not figure that out Fatma? The joy of a good detective story is that the detective, on some level, needs to be smarter than you. You are reading their story because you want to dazzled by their brilliance. But Fatma is just kinda dumb, which wouldn't be a problem except the story constantly says she's amazing at her job.
Second: a running theme throughout the book is the various tensions and prejudices between social, religious, and ethnic groups, and even along gender lines (women, for instance, only recently got the right to vote before the novel started). But not sexuality. Which is a problem when the main romance is a lesbian one in 1912 Middle East, a region that is historically (at least since being colonized by Western powers) is not kind to the gays. In-universe, it's only been like 30ish years since Egypt kicked out the English and it's just really weird to me that for all the care about thinking through how these various groups would react to the presence of magic and magical creatures, Clark just got gunshy about dealing with sexuality. And it's not like Fatma and Siti hide it; several characters comment on their relationship. If this was set in a fully different world, fine, whatever. I wouldn't care. But Cairo is a real place with a real history and, like, right now in 2023, Egypt is not kind to LGBT people. I just cannot believe that magic appeared, the British got kicked out and everyone suddenly became cool with the gays. I like Fatma and Siti's relationship, but it feels completely divorced from the world they live in. People give Siti shit for her ethnicity, but they don't care she's banging a woman? Sure.
I have other complaints, but they're relatively minor compared to those two. Like, the plot is predictable. The villain's comeuppance is . . . kinda uncomfy (the evil white woman gets mindwiped by the djinn, and sure, fictional revenge on the British . . . except when you realize that that act in and of itself is also playing into tropes of the savage ravaging the white girl. I don't know, this is getting out of my wheelhouse but it felt kind of off to me, and even Fatma says it was kind of fucked up). With the exception of Siti, every other side character is one-note and forgettable (Fatma has a partner whose name I immediately forgot after finishing the book). Oh, and A Master of Djinn doesn't really make sense if you haven't read "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" (which is available for free online, admittedly, but is still annoying, since the villain's whole plan relies on knowledge of what happens in that story).
I didn't hate A Master of Djinn, but it was disappointing. I'm hoping future adventures with Fatma are better.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
This is one of the more conflicted reading experiences I've had recently. To start with, Addie LaRue is great. I really enjoyed the story and the themes and the writing (seriously, just on a sentence-by-sentence level, this is probably the best written book on this list, except for maybe The Devil Takes You Home). I'm admittedly a sucker for melodrama and this book has that in spades. There's a lot in here about the power of art and storytelling and love. There's a Faustian bargain. It's great. I really, really liked it. I've heard criticism that it's a very Euro-centric POV about art and, yeah, that's true, though that aspect doesn't bother me. Addie is a Frenchwoman, so it makes sense to me that she sticks around Europe and the US. If there's one legit criticism I have of the book, it's that I kind of wished it had leaned into the sleaze a bit more. Like, sure, art is good and beautiful and inspiring and all that; that's true. But art is also gross, nasty and just plain mean a lot of the time too (trangressive horror fiction is a vibrant subgenre whose whole thing is making the audience as uncomfortable as possible, for example).
By focusing just on the "beautiful," The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue kind of feels like a stereotypical white-girl Instagram account at times: only the pretty, only the "aesthetic," not really challenging anything, just regurgitating the same kind of tired old platitudes about art we've all heard over and over again. Addie is 300 years old, but she's only inspired the "good" art during that time. I just think it was a missed opportunity that she never seemed to inspire anything that was harmful, gross, mean-spirited, petty, etc. Art is many things, and not all of it is meant to make us "feel good". To quote jazz musician Dave Liebman: "What is this 'feeling good' bullshit? John Coltrane didn't write A Love Supreme because it 'felt good.' " I mean, hell, one of this year's biggest films is Oppenheimer, a scathing takedown of how men's ambitions can get co-opted into making monstrous things. I didn't leave the theatre "feeling good" about the history of the atomic bomb. It's a movie that doesn't want you to "feel good"; indeed, quite the opposite. Addie LaRue, I think, would only have been strengthened by leaning into that side of art as well. Addie has incredible power to plant ideas, but they only become inspiring, hopeful, beautiful ideas, which is Schwab's intent, I admit, but . . . I guess it's more a philosophical difference between me and her.
At the same time, however, I kind of hated Henry and his supporting cast. Not in a "they're badly written" way, but in the fact that I've met people like Henry, Bea and Robbie, and had very negative experiences with people similar to them. This is more of a personal thing, admittedly. I just cannot stand theatre people. Or at least, this kind of theatre people. Robbie, in particular, rubbed me the wrong way, not because he's gay, but because my read on him is that he's a manipulative, sex-obsessed, narcissistic asshole who uses his "art cred" to sleep with people and dazzles everyone with his big art brain to avoid anyone criticizing him too deeply. I genuinely do not understand what Henry (or Schwab, for that matter) sees in the guy (especially since there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment of Robbie getting thrown under the bus for being biphobic). Bea, for what it matters, has one of my least favorite lesbian tropes: going after the older married woman in order to, I don't know, prove that women in heterosexual relationships are actually just repressing their queerness and should sleep with younger college girls in order to figure out their shit. I know people who've done just that and it's gross. Cheating is not attractive and if you knowingly sleep with someone in a relationship, you're an asshole, full stop. (Not even getting into the really uncomfortable power dynamics there.) Granted, that part of her character happened off-screen before the book starts and is only referenced a couple of times, but it left a bad taste in my mouth, because otherwise, I liked Bea as a character. She's the most down-to-earth character in Henry's circle (a much-needed presence in a cast of manic artist types), but I just wish Schwab didn't have that detail about her, because it throws a bad light onto Bea and just made me suspicious of her motivations, and, more importantly, wasn't necessary at all.
Henry is a better character than Addie. Addie is an idea more than a character, which is part of the point, but does leave Addie feeling hard to feel much for. She's had an impossible thing happen to her and lives an impossible life. She's--by design--insulated from the world in nearly every way. Henry, on the other hand, can impact the world around him, but like Addie, he never gives in to his baser impulses. I mean sure, in some of his flashbacks he does drugs and has sex with random people and even gets into a threesome, but those aren't particularly trangressive things to do. He's the golden boy, the one who can never do wrong, and I just wish Schwab had fully extrapolated out what kind of mark this person would leave in the world. Henry has incredible power to leave people damaged, but he never does. Not really a criticism, per se, I suppose, but more of a missed opportunity. But in terms of Henry's depression, it--like the rest of Addie LaRue--is very melodramatic and exaggerated, but in a way that kind of worked for me. My own battles with depression felt--emotionally--similar to Henry's. I've had nights where I can't get out of my own head and the only way I can think is by drinking myself into a stupor to just get things to quiet down. That element of Henry was by far the most relatable aspect of his character to me.
All that being said, if you take Addie LaRue on its own terms, it's wonderful. I loved the relationship between Addie and Henry. The novel ends pretty much the only way this kind of story can end, but Schwab is a good enough writer to make it land with the appropriate enough gutpunch. The moment-to-moment reading of it was fantastic. It wasn't until I put the book down and thought about it that I wished it had done more with its premise. Pretty is nice; but pretty isn't everything, and Addie LaRue, for all its musing about art and beauty, never seems willing to muse about the dark side of art.
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
I enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge's first novel in the "Zones of Thought" universe. It was big, epic, fun sci-fi that, surprisingly, felt super modern, especially in the ways various cultures reacted to the big bad "The Blight." Misinformation was the name of the game there. That aspect was easily it's most interesting, more in the fact that Fire came out in the early 90s, well before the rise of social media and its various ills. But I also don't really have much else to say about Fire beyond "It's good! Go read it!"
A Deepness in the Sky, however, I found just as compelling to read, but a lot more interesting to think about.
Technically, it's a prequel to Fire (the only recurring character is Pham Nuwen) but it's functionally it's set in its own universe (there's deeply buried lore stuff about how the Zones of Thought work, but it doesn't really affect anything in this book, so don't worry about it).
Deepness is a story about culture. Or rather, about how cultures interact. The main plot is about a group of traders who get hijacked by a group of slavers who then are forced to meld their cultures together in order to survive the harsh conditions of space (no FTL travel in this universe) after their ships are damaged. They end up in orbit around a planet of spiderpeople and a lot of the book is taken up by the mind-slaves basically just watching and recording the spiderpeople. There's a lot in here about colonialism and how cultures change and evolve when they meet different cultures. My favorite aspect is how the spider people are presented: basically World War 2 era US, with their own version of the Manhatten Project. At first, it's a little disappointing that the spiders feel so human, but the twist Vinge does with this is so much better: the spider people have been playing the humans all along, making themselves seem human-like to the humans orbiting above them so that the various competing factions of spider people can get access to the humans' more advanced technology. Critically, the spiders aren't described visually very much (beyond referring to extra legs and fangs and the like), so the reader is kind of forced to imagine them as human. (There's plot reasons why the humans don't get a visual look at the spiders until near the end.) And when they're finally revealed at the end, it comes as a shock just how different they really are and how much the humans have been projecting onto the spiders.
Vinge is a very plot-heavy writer and there's a lot of plot to this book. But suffice to say, it's super compelling, easy to follow, and asks interesting questions that, yes, are big sci-fi ideas but also serve as reflections for modern day questions about cultural appropriation, cultural change, tradition and so on. It's not as fast-moving a plot as Fire, but for my money, it's far richer in ideas, while also telling a kick ass story where everyone is trying to out-manipulate everyone else.
Other Stuff I've Read But Don't Have Much to Talk About
I Liked These
The Murderbot Diaries (#1 - #4) by Martha Wells (they're fun)
The Indian Lake Trilogy (#1 - #2) by Stephen Graham Jones (they're fun and nasty)
The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu (honestly, I just don't know how to talk about these books, beyond going, "They're really good.")
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (I feel like I should have something to say about this, but I really don't; I did really enjoy it, though)
Legion series by Brandon Sanderson (short, fast, fun, cool concept)
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (like Perdido Street Station, I feel like I should have something to say about this book, but I don't; it's great though, probably my favorite book in this list)
The Fisherman by John Langan (it's . . . okay. I liked it, but it's not as interesting as I thought it would be; some great spooky fish monsters though.)
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (it's a classic sci-fi epic for a reason; I had a lot of fun reading this)
I Didn't Like These
The Redemption of Time by Baoshu (authorized fanfiction to the Three-Body series; I was morbidly curious and it's a waste of time)
Warriors of Understone by B. K. Bass (it's just boring, with the saving grace that's its really short)
No Demons But Us by A. S. Etaski (DNF'd this; the main character rapes someone and the author just portrays it as not a terrible thing. It's not the old school "kiss her until she gives in" kind of non-consent. It's full-on explicit rape. So, yeah, fuck this book.)
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Tetapi, tulisan yang Kamu kirim tidak dan merta langsung dilansir. Tulisan yang dikirim hendak disunting terlebih dulu, itu juga bila lolos pilih regu editor di web Basabasi. co.
Bila layak, hingga tulisan kamu hendak diterbitkan langsung. Tidak hanya itu, bila tulisan yang Kamu kirim itu ialah tulisan awal yang sukses diterbitkan, Kamu hendak memperoleh souvenir berbentuk kaos plus honor.
Buat perinci lebih lengkap tentang tata metode pengiriman naskah di basabasi. co. Selamat berupaya.
ALIF. ID didatangkan selaku ikhtiar kecil buat membuka atmosfer keberagamaan kita yang lebih bermacam- macam serta selaras dengan ruh ajaran Islam. Kami mengajukan visi Berkeislaman dalam Kebudayaan supaya jalur Islam yang luas kian terbuka.
Dengan visi di atas, Alif. ID bersungguh- sungguh memperkenalkan, atmosfer, warna, gagasan bermacam- macam dalam keberislaman kita. Harapannya, alid. id bisa membuka jalur baru kemaslahatan.
Alif. id menerima tulisan seputar budaya Islam, isu keberagaman serta tulisan pencerahan yang lain. Konon, buat tiap tulisan yang sukses dilansir, penulis hendak memperoleh honor Rp250. 000.
Bila mau mengirim tulisan ke web Alif ini, silakan merujuk pada halaman donasi.
Remotivi tercantum web sungguh- sungguh serta sebagian besar kontennya berupa opini serta esai. Remotivi sangat fokus pada tulisan- tulisan yang berkaitan dengan isu jurnalisme.
Bila membaca web ini, kalian hendak memandang banyak postingan yang berkaitan dengan media semacam koran, Televisi, majalah, wartawan, kontributor media serta lain sebagainya.
Jika Kamu mempunyai keahlian menganalisis framing kabar serta metode kerja media, tidak terdapat salahnya mengirim ke web ini. Sebab jerih payah Kamu hendak dibayar mahal.
Kemudian, berapa honor yang didapat dikala mengirim tulisan ke web ini? Dari data yang aku miliki dari sahabat penulis, honor tulisannya merupakan Rp350. 000 per tulisan.
Penulis apalagi dapat memperoleh bayaran lebih besar, menggapai Rp. 1. 500. 000 per tulisan, bila tulisan tersebut dikira fresh, menarik serta relevan.
Buat memandang perinci lengkap tercantum tata metode serta pedoman ngirim tulisan di Remotivi, silahkan klik di mari.
GEOTIMES Indonesia merupakan portal kolom terkenal serta terbaru tentang tokoh serta kebijakan publik. Web ini berikan ruang untuk para pembaca dengan perspektif tajam dari para ahli serta publik seputar agama, ekonomi, politik, sosial, serta media.
Web yang kerap diucap Geotimes Indonesia berisi tulisan dari penulis bermacam- macam latar balik, dengan perspektif serta sudut pandang yang tidak biasa.
Bila mau mengirim tulisan ke web ini, kalian wajib mencermati ketentuan serta syarat supaya tulisan yang kalian kirim layak memuat. Misalnya, dari faktor kenyataan, relevansi serta teori- teori pendukung lain. Sebagian besar konten di web ini berupa Opini serta Esai.
Tidak hanya itu, terdapat sebagian syarat- syarat yang wajib dicermati bila kamu mau mengirim naskah di web ini, semacam:
– Tulisan terdiri dari 750- 1000 kata
– Biodata pengirim wajib jelas serta cocok dengan bukti diri yang dimiliki
– Responsif terhadap isu- isu aktual
– Postingan wajib argumentatif
– Tidak memiliki SARA
– Tulisan seluruhnya jadi tanggungjawab penulis
Dari ketentuan di atas, sangat jelas jika tulisan di Geotimes sangat sungguh- sungguh. Karenanya tulisan yang kalian kirim tidak hanya berisi tema sungguh- sungguh, pula butuh menjajaki trend yang terdapat.
Berapa Geotimes membayar penulis? Konon, buat satu tulisan yang dilansir, seseorang penulis hendak memperoleh Rp350 ribu. Buat memandang ketentuan serta pedoman penyusunan postingan di Geotimes, silahkan rujuk taman ini.
Web Voxpop sesungguhnya tidak jauh beda dengan Mojok. Sebagian besar konten yang dilansir di web ini berbentuk opini serta pula pemikiran terpaut dengan kehidupan warga. Pula ditulis dengan style ngepop.
Bila style menulis Kamu tidak sangat satire alias masih cenderung sungguh- sungguh, tidak terdapat salahnya mengirim ke VoxPop ini.
Lalu, berapa honor yang didapat bila postingan sukses tayang di Voxpop? Bagi penuturan sebagian sahabat penulis, mereka memperoleh honorarium Rp250 ribu per naskah.
Buat memandang perinci serta syarat pengiriman naskah di Voxpop. Ayo, dicoba!
Buruan. co merupakan web yang fokus pada kajian serta apresiasi dengan visi utama buat mengakomodasi atensi baca tulis secara daring. Selaku media kajian serta apresiasi, Buruan lebih menuju ke sastra yang disesuaikan sama atensi serta keahlian penulis.
Hasil amatan penulis, terdapat 2 tipe rubrik yang diterima ialah cerpen[cerita pendek] serta puisi. Nah, bila Kamu lagi mencari platform menulis puisi dibayar ataupun mau kirim cerpen serta memperoleh honor dapat manfaatkan web Buruan ini.
Menariknya, web ini tidak cuma menerima tulisan serta puisi berbahasa Indonesia tetapi pula berbahasa Sunda. Ini persis semacam Mojok yang pula mengakomodasi tulisan berbahasa Jawa.
Buat 2 tipe karya tulis di atas Kamu hendak menerima honor sebesar Rp200. 000. Ayo, amati ketentuan serta syarat pengiriman naskah ke Buruan. co di mari.
Aku belum sempat menulis serta mengirim tulisan buat web yang memiliki motto“ sedikit bandel banyak ide” itu. Tetapi aku sempat mendengar bila web berisi konten satir ini membayar penulis dengan honor yang lumayan layak.
Berapa sesungguhnya honor buat penulis yang tulisannya dilansir di Mojok? Bagi data di web Mojok, besaran honornya berkisar Rp250. 000- 350. 000 buat satu tulisan, serta honor tersebut dikirim tiap hari Senin. Bagi pengelola Mojok, honor tersebut lumayan buat menaktir pacar di suatu restoran populer.
Aku tidak ketahui apakah honor tersebut tercantum besar ataupun kecil buat tulisan, yang bagi mereka“ tulisan di Mojok cuma membutuhkan waktu sebagian menit serta dapat ditulis sembari menunggu bus kota” itu. Ya, jika dilihat dari tulisan yang dilansir memanglah simpel serta hanya membutuhkan 2–3 gelas kopi buat menyelesaikannya.
Oh ya, bila kalian mengirimkan tulisan ke mojok jangan kurang ingat melampirkan no rekening yang wajib diletakkan di tubuh email. Jika kalian jenis orang yang malas memberitahukan no rekening, dianjurkan buat tidak mengirim tulisan buat Mojok. Soal ini dapat kalian baca sendiri di bagian“ syarat mengirim tulisan” di web Mojok.
Serta, satu lagi saat sebelum aku kurang ingat. Belum lama ini Mojok membuka kanal“ halte” yang mirip halaman keroyokan ala Kompasiana ataupun Vivalog, di mana siapa juga dapat berkontribusi di situ. Kanal halte dimaksudkan selaku web auto- generated- content ataupun AGC yang menerima tulisan dari jalan non- reguler, sebab penulis dapat memposting sendiri tulisannya asal telah mempunyai akun. Pihak mojok yang nantinya memutuskan menayangkan tulisan ataupun tidak. Tetapi, sepanjang tulisan kalian menarik serta segar, aku yakin orang mojok tentu hendak terburu- buru memuatnya.
Reward ataupun benefit apa yang kita terima bila tulisan kita tayang di kanal halte? Bagi data yang aku baca, bila tulisan kita dilansir hingga kita berhak menerima 1 poin. Satu tulisan berarti 1 poin. Serta tiap sukses mengumpulkan 10 poin, kita hendak memperoleh duit Rp250. 000,-. Tiap penulis cuma dibolehkan mengumpulkan 20 poin ataupun Rp500. 000,- per bulan.
Nah, tunggu terlebih, ini kesempatan bagus buat mengais dollar, eh rupiah! Mau mengirim tulisan ke web ini, baca ketentuannya di mari.
- IDN Times
Kemudian, gimana para penulisnya dibayar? IDN Times mencari para penulis terkenal yang tulisannya banyak dilihat serta dibaca orang, paling utama topik yang masih segar serta jadi trending. Terus menjadi terkenal suatu tulisan, hingga terus menjadi besar kesempatan si penulisnya memperoleh bayaran besar.
Dari data yang aku baca, kalau tiap 100 views dari postingan yang kalian tulis serta tayang di IDN Times, kalian hendak memperoleh 1 poin. Terus menjadi banyak tulisan yang kalian tulis serta memperoleh views yang melimpah, poinmu hendak terus meningkat. Poin itu dapat diganti dengan duit ataupun benda yang disediakan. Minimun poin yang bisa ditukarkan merupakan 500 poin serta kelipatannya.
Selaku ilustrasi: Jika postingan yang kalian tulis menciptakan 150. 790 pageviews. Hingga kalian hendak memperoleh 1500 poin. Poin ini dapat kalian tukarkan( redeem) dengan duit tunai senilai 150. 000 ataupun hadiah tertentu. Sisanya tidak hendak lenyap, melainkan jadi saldo poinmu.
Tunggu terlebih, lekas buat saya di IDN Times Community, serta mulailah menulis. Kumpulkan poin sebanyak- banyaknya. Sebab terus menjadi banyak poin yang dapat kalian kumpulkan, terus menjadi besar pemasukan yang kalian terima. Ketentuan serta syarat menulis di IDN Times dapat merujuk pada halaman ini.
https://www.dedenanda.com/2023/04/bisnis-online-menjadi-penulis-lepas.html
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2023.05.18 20:56 VeggieTrails Looking for additional reading (analysis, criticism, companion pieces, etc) after Anna Karenina
(I also posted this request in RussianLiterature - I hope this is allowed. If not, I apologize.)
I just finished reading Anna Karenina, as well as listening to the 8 part Tipsy Tolstoy podcast on it (which is wonderful) and want to read furtheadditional/supplemental material on or adjacent to it to further my understanding and thought on it.
Below are the suggested 'Further Reading's from the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. I've looked for many of these and am not having a ton of luck finding them. Some are expensive school texts, which I would LOVE and are on my list to buy.
Do you have suggestions off of this list? (I was thinking about just starting at the top with Bakhtin and going down the list.) Or do you have recommendations that are not on this list? I'm also interested in a bio of Leo Tolstoy, but there are many. Is there a recommended one to start with?
Thanks so much in advanced!
Additional info: I ordered the Dialogic Imagination and am excited to dig. Tolstoy has always been a major blindspot for me, but I'm fixing that this summer. Dostoevsky is who got me in to russian lit, so I'm excited to read Bakhtin on him as well.
What subjects I'd like to think more on? I'd say the portrayal of emotions and thoughts. My favorite aspect of the book was the that it was essentially a slice of life (albeit, for a certain class) and we living out ordinary (for these people) days - and I loved every long stretch inside Levin's head managing work on the farm. I liked the contrast in class difference as well as the contrast between city and rural life. That particular time period, the last quarter of the 1800s, particularly interests me. Especially in Russia, but also France, England, USA, etc.
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I just finished reading Anna Karenina, as well as listening to the 8 part Tipsy Tolstoy podcast on it (which is wonderful) and want to read furtheadditional/supplemental material on or adjacent to it to further my understanding and thought on it.
Below are the suggested 'Further Reading's from the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. I've looked for many of these and am not having a ton of luck finding them. Some are expensive school texts, which I would LOVE and are on my list to buy.
Do you have suggestions off of this list? (I was thinking about just starting at the top with Bakhtin and going down the list.) Or do you have recommendations that are not on this list? I'm also interested in a bio of Leo Tolstoy, but there are many. Is there a recommended one to start with?
Thanks so much in advanced!
Bakhtin, Mikhail, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (University of Texas Press, Austin, 198I) Bayley, John, Tolstoy and the Novel (Chatto and Windus, London, 1966) Berlin, Isaiah, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1967) Eikhenbaum, Boris, Tolstoi in the Seventies, trans. Albert Kaspin (Ardis, Ann Arbor, 1982) Evans, Mary, Anna Karenina (Routledge, London and New York, I989) Leavis, F. R., Anna Karenina and Other Essays (Chatto and Windus, London, 1967) Mandelker, Amy, Framing 'Anna Karenina': Tolstoy, the Woman Ques-tion, and the Victorian Novel (Ohio State University Press, Columbus, [993) Nabokov, Vladimir, Lectures on Russian Literature (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 198I) Orwin, Donna Tussing, Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-I880 (Prince-ton University Press, Princeton, 1993) Sémon, Marie, Les Femmes dans l'oeuvre de Léon Tolstoï (Institut d'Études Slaves, Paris, I984) Thorlby, Anthony, Leo Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina* (Cambridge Univer-sity Press, Cambridge and New York, 1987) Tolstoy, Leo, Correspondence, 2 vols., selected, ed. and trans. by R. F. Christian (Athlone Press, London and Scribner, New York, 1978) - Diaries, ed. and trans. by R. F. Christian (Athlone Press, London and Scribner, New York, 1985) Tolstoy, Sophia A., The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy, ed. O. A. Golinenko, trans. Cathy Porter (Random House, New York, 1985) Wasiolek, Edward, Critical Essays on Tolstoy (G. K. Hall, Boston, I986) -Tolstoy's Major Fiction (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1978)
Additional info: I ordered the Dialogic Imagination and am excited to dig. Tolstoy has always been a major blindspot for me, but I'm fixing that this summer. Dostoevsky is who got me in to russian lit, so I'm excited to read Bakhtin on him as well.
What subjects I'd like to think more on? I'd say the portrayal of emotions and thoughts. My favorite aspect of the book was the that it was essentially a slice of life (albeit, for a certain class) and we living out ordinary (for these people) days - and I loved every long stretch inside Levin's head managing work on the farm. I liked the contrast in class difference as well as the contrast between city and rural life. That particular time period, the last quarter of the 1800s, particularly interests me. Especially in Russia, but also France, England, USA, etc.
2023.05.17 16:11 VeggieTrails Looking for additional reading (analysis, criticism, companion pieces, etc) after Anna Karenina
I just finished reading Anna Karenina, as well as listening to the 8 part Tipsy Tolstoy podcast on it (which is wonderful) and want to read furtheadditional/supplemental material on or adjacent to it to further my understanding and thought on it.
Below are the suggested 'Further Reading's from the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. I've looked for many of these and am not having a ton of luck finding them. Some are expensive school texts, which I would LOVE and are on my list to buy.
Do you have suggestions off of this list? (I was thinking about just starting at the top with Bakhtin and going down the list.) Or do you have recommendations that are not on this list? I'm also interested in a bio of Leo Tolstoy, but there are many. Is there a recommended one to start with?
Thanks so much in advanced!
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Below are the suggested 'Further Reading's from the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. I've looked for many of these and am not having a ton of luck finding them. Some are expensive school texts, which I would LOVE and are on my list to buy.
Do you have suggestions off of this list? (I was thinking about just starting at the top with Bakhtin and going down the list.) Or do you have recommendations that are not on this list? I'm also interested in a bio of Leo Tolstoy, but there are many. Is there a recommended one to start with?
Thanks so much in advanced!
Bakhtin, Mikhail, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist,
trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (University of Texas Press, Austin, 198I)
Bayley, John, Tolstoy and the Novel (Chatto and Windus, London,
1966)
Berlin, Isaiah, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966; Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, London, 1967)
Eikhenbaum, Boris, Tolstoi in the Seventies, trans. Albert Kaspin (Ardis, Ann Arbor, 1982)
Evans, Mary, Anna Karenina (Routledge, London and New York, I989)
Leavis, F. R., Anna Karenina and Other Essays (Chatto and Windus, London, 1967)
Mandelker, Amy, Framing 'Anna Karenina': Tolstoy, the Woman Ques-tion, and the Victorian Novel (Ohio State University Press, Columbus, [993)
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lectures on Russian Literature (Weidenfeld
and Nicolson, London and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York,
198I)
Orwin, Donna Tussing, Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-I880 (Prince-ton University Press, Princeton, 1993)
Sémon, Marie, Les Femmes dans l'oeuvre de Léon Tolstoï (Institut d'Études Slaves, Paris, I984)
Thorlby, Anthony, Leo Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina* (Cambridge Univer-sity Press, Cambridge and New York, 1987)
Tolstoy, Leo, Correspondence, 2 vols., selected, ed. and trans. by R. F.
Christian (Athlone Press, London and Scribner, New York, 1978)
- Diaries, ed. and trans. by R. F. Christian (Athlone Press, London and
Scribner, New York, 1985)
Tolstoy, Sophia A., The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy, ed. O. A. Golinenko, trans. Cathy Porter (Random House, New York, 1985)
Wasiolek, Edward, Critical Essays on Tolstoy (G. K. Hall, Boston, I986)
-Tolstoy's Major Fiction (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1978)
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Frxnco - In the Obscurity / Key Dbm, BPM 124, 6:19, MP3 15.22 Mb, AIFF 66.96 Mb
GC System - Godzin / Key Bm, BPM 124, 8:04, MP3 19.40 Mb, AIFF 85.40 Mb
GC System - One / Key Cm, BPM 124, 7:42, MP3 18.51 Mb, AIFF 81.47 Mb
Gazfluz - Unknown Shaman / Key F, BPM 124, 5:19, MP3 12.82 Mb, AIFF 56.38 Mb
Haze-M - Trip Buddy / Key Cm, BPM 122, 7:52, MP3 18.93 Mb, AIFF 83.32 Mb
Izo Darko - Charlo / Key Fm, BPM 121, 7:09, MP3 17.18 Mb, AIFF 75.63 Mb
Izo Darko - Falling / Key Dbm, BPM 124, 5:41, MP3 13.67 Mb, AIFF 60.16 Mb
JAHAYA - Cosmic Gate / Key Abm, BPM 124, 7:03, MP3 16.96 Mb, AIFF 74.64 Mb
JAHAYA - Land of Legends / Key Dbm, BPM 120, 6:13, MP3 14.94 Mb, AIFF 65.75 Mb
JAHAYA - Red Wine / Key Abm, BPM 118, 7:07, MP3 17.13 Mb, AIFF 75.38 Mb
JAHAYA - Spectra / Key Ebm, BPM 121, 5:37, MP3 13.53 Mb, AIFF 59.52 Mb
Jackie Jeff - Access Denied / Key Fm, BPM 123, 6:50, MP3 16.43 Mb, AIFF 72.32 Mb
Jackie Jeff - Saturn / Key Em, BPM 123, 6:26, MP3 15.50 Mb, AIFF 68.19 Mb
Jasminova & Pablo Senbawy - 4U / Key Bb, BPM 125, 6:13, MP3 14.96 Mb, AIFF 65.81 Mb
Jasminova & Pablo Senbawy - Dance in the Jungle / Key Abm, BPM 125, 6:44, MP3 16.19 Mb, AIFF 71.23 Mb
K KARDEN & Savill - Suomi / Key F#m, BPM 123, 6:54, MP3 16.59 Mb, AIFF 73.01 Mb
Kate Rogalski & Monta (TN) - Take My Hand / Key Am, BPM 122, 6:59, MP3 16.80 Mb, AIFF 73.96 Mb
Kiermo - Just Wait / Key Dm, BPM 122, 6:26, MP3 15.49 Mb, AIFF 68.18 Mb
LowAM & HERNMATT - Ultra / Key Gm, BPM 123, 5:40, MP3 13.64 Mb, AIFF 60.02 Mb
MANDU - Jacky / Key Em, BPM 124, 6:00, MP3 14.46 Mb, AIFF 63.61 Mb
Markin, Broska & Yelow - Mandala / Key F#, BPM 122, 4:47, MP3 11.53 Mb, AIFF 50.71 Mb
Matvienkov - I Wanna Dance / Key Fm, BPM 127, 6:08, MP3 14.75 Mb, AIFF 64.92 Mb
N3UX - Dusk (Extended Mix) / Key Fm, BPM 124, 5:50, MP3 14.06 Mb, AIFF 61.84 Mb
Nasjon - Alignment / Key Em, BPM 122, 7:13, MP3 17.35 Mb, AIFF 76.38 Mb
Nasjon - Two of Us / Key Em, BPM 129, 7:30, MP3 18.02 Mb, AIFF 79.33 Mb
Nomer 21 - Mitchell's Cave / Key G, BPM 123, 4:39, MP3 11.20 Mb, AIFF 49.26 Mb
Nomer 21 - The Chief's Hut / Key Eb, BPM 122, 6:51, MP3 16.47 Mb, AIFF 72.46 Mb
Nomer 21 - View of the Tribe / Key F#, BPM 122, 6:31, MP3 15.70 Mb, AIFF 69.09 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (A X L Remix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 6:56, MP3 16.68 Mb, AIFF 73.42 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Ahhyeno Remix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 6:56, MP3 16.68 Mb, AIFF 73.42 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Alexey Slim Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 5:54, MP3 14.21 Mb, AIFF 62.50 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Atche Remix) / Key Am, BPM 119, 7:04, MP3 17.01 Mb, AIFF 74.86 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Atique Remix) / Key A, BPM 122, 7:36, MP3 18.30 Mb, AIFF 80.55 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Boel Remix) / Key Am, BPM 123, 5:51, MP3 14.09 Mb, AIFF 62.00 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Broken RY Remix) / Key Am, BPM 118, 7:48, MP3 18.76 Mb, AIFF 82.56 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (David Puron Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 6:37, MP3 15.91 Mb, AIFF 70.02 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Deem Remix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 6:56, MP3 16.68 Mb, AIFF 73.42 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Di:us Remix) / Key Am, BPM 105, 6:33, MP3 15.74 Mb, AIFF 69.29 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Hunter (TN) Remix) / Key A, BPM 122, 5:46, MP3 13.89 Mb, AIFF 61.11 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Jenya Miller Afro Mix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 7:00, MP3 16.85 Mb, AIFF 74.15 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Kovax Remix) / Key Am, BPM 118, 6:38, MP3 15.95 Mb, AIFF 70.19 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (MAGD (EG) Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 6:18, MP3 15.15 Mb, AIFF 66.67 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Nedisco Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 5:34, MP3 13.42 Mb, AIFF 59.03 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (RAYBO Remix) / Key A, BPM 120, 6:08, MP3 14.76 Mb, AIFF 64.96 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Seething Flow Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 7:01, MP3 16.86 Mb, AIFF 74.22 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (The Mozati Remix) / Key Am, BPM 115, 6:54, MP3 16.61 Mb, AIFF 73.12 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Vladimir Virus Club Mix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 8:20, MP3 20.04 Mb, AIFF 88.24 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (toy5bro Remix) / Key A, BPM 160, 6:48, MP3 16.36 Mb, AIFF 72.01 Mb
Nopopstar - Acid Kids / Key Em, BPM 123, 6:38, MP3 15.97 Mb, AIFF 70.26 Mb
Nopopstar - Begel / Key Abm, BPM 123, 6:24, MP3 15.42 Mb, AIFF 67.85 Mb
Numeric Space - Get Down / Key G, BPM 123, 6:46, MP3 16.28 Mb, AIFF 71.63 Mb
Patrick Medina - Priestess / Key Am, BPM 118, 6:51, MP3 16.48 Mb, AIFF 72.51 Mb
Paul Weekend - One Alone / Key Bbm, BPM 124, 6:50, MP3 16.46 Mb, AIFF 72.42 Mb
Qmeer - 50 Million $ / Key Am, BPM 126, 7:45, MP3 18.63 Mb, AIFF 82.02 Mb
Qmeer - Durbala / Key Abm, BPM 122, 7:05, MP3 17.04 Mb, AIFF 75.00 Mb
Qoma - Nerves / Key Dbm, BPM 123, 6:15, MP3 15.03 Mb, AIFF 66.13 Mb
Ruslana Taranuha - Morning Comes / Key Am, BPM 124, 5:48, MP3 13.98 Mb, AIFF 61.50 Mb
SOLI - Spacetoon / Key Em, BPM 123, 6:01, MP3 14.48 Mb, AIFF 63.72 Mb
Shah - Take Me High / Key Abm, BPM 124, 6:18, MP3 15.18 Mb, AIFF 66.79 Mb
Steel Tone - Chicken Wolf / Key Gm, BPM 124, 6:44, MP3 16.19 Mb, AIFF 71.24 Mb
Steel Tone - Dahu / Key F, BPM 124, 6:55, MP3 16.65 Mb, AIFF 73.28 Mb
Steel Tone - La Seine / Key Gm, BPM 124, 6:49, MP3 16.40 Mb, AIFF 72.17 Mb
Twol - Indina / Key Em, BPM 120, 6:11, MP3 14.88 Mb, AIFF 65.48 Mb
Van Fabrik - Atlantis / Key Dbm, BPM 122, 7:09, MP3 17.20 Mb, AIFF 75.69 Mb
Van Fabrik - Magic Trip / Key Am, BPM 124, 7:45, MP3 18.62 Mb, AIFF 81.98 Mb
Van Fabrik - Metamorphosis / Key Cm, BPM 121, 7:08, MP3 17.18 Mb, AIFF 75.61 Mb
YY - Teleport / Key Abm, BPM 123, 6:46, MP3 16.28 Mb, AIFF 71.63 Mb
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Aleksandr Stroganov - Hakuna Matata / Key Am, BPM 123, 5:39, MP3 13.58 Mb, AIFF 59.76 Mb
Aleksandr Stroganov - The Windy Fields / Key Dm, BPM 123, 6:22, MP3 15.34 Mb, AIFF 67.50 Mb
Alex Grafton, Margaryan & Shan Tazh - Shapito / Key Fm, BPM 123, 5:36, MP3 13.47 Mb, AIFF 59.24 Mb
Alex Wave - Tajim (Extended Mix) / Key Bbm, BPM 122, 6:30, MP3 15.62 Mb, AIFF 68.75 Mb
Alex Wave - Tiger / Key Dbm, BPM 122, 7:04, MP3 17.00 Mb, AIFF 74.82 Mb
Amadei - Holy / Key Dm, BPM 120, 5:16, MP3 12.68 Mb, AIFF 55.78 Mb
Ambear - Night Shade / Key D, BPM 122, 6:26, MP3 15.47 Mb, AIFF 68.06 Mb
Ambear - The Heavens / Key Em, BPM 124, 6:16, MP3 15.06 Mb, AIFF 66.28 Mb
Andrey Gronsky - Tiger / Key Am, BPM 121, 8:20, MP3 20.04 Mb, AIFF 88.21 Mb
Artem Kai - Aplicator Rave / Key Bbm, BPM 121, 7:54, MP3 19.01 Mb, AIFF 83.66 Mb
Artem Kai - Midpoint / Key Bbm, BPM 120, 6:56, MP3 16.68 Mb, AIFF 73.42 Mb
Artem Kai - Tronpline / Key Fm, BPM 121, 6:31, MP3 15.67 Mb, AIFF 68.97 Mb
Bajjo - Etemenanki / Key Em, BPM 122, 6:57, MP3 16.72 Mb, AIFF 73.61 Mb
Chris Drifter & MB Project - For Years / Key Am, BPM 122, 6:51, MP3 16.49 Mb, AIFF 72.57 Mb
DJ Danzik - I Am Groove / Key Dm, BPM 120, 5:20, MP3 12.84 Mb, AIFF 56.49 Mb
DJ Danzik - Out of Space / Key Dbm, BPM 126, 5:05, MP3 12.23 Mb, AIFF 53.80 Mb
DMITRY SID - Lyrical Novel / Key Fm, BPM 123, 8:06, MP3 19.48 Mb, AIFF 85.74 Mb
Daddy's Wave's - Asia (Seething Flow Remix) / Key D, BPM 121, 6:02, MP3 14.50 Mb, AIFF 63.81 Mb
David Puron - The Line / Key Dm, BPM 118, 7:38, MP3 18.35 Mb, AIFF 80.77 Mb
Dobrov & Gar1sson - Analogic (Redspace Remix) / Key Fm, BPM 122, 6:17, MP3 15.12 Mb, AIFF 66.52 Mb
Dobrov & Gar1sson - Analogic (SparroX Remix) / Key Fm, BPM 122, 7:52, MP3 18.91 Mb, AIFF 83.24 Mb
Dobrov & Gar1sson - Analogic (The Khitrov Remix) / Key Fm, BPM 122, 6:49, MP3 16.41 Mb, AIFF 72.22 Mb
Dobrov & Gar1sson - Analogic / Key F, BPM 122, 6:34, MP3 15.78 Mb, AIFF 69.45 Mb
Dobrov - Ansatz / Key Cm, BPM 122, 6:02, MP3 14.52 Mb, AIFF 63.89 Mb
Dobrov, Siti & Lila Fa - This Way (Simple J Remix) / Key Fm, BPM 123, 5:58, MP3 14.36 Mb, AIFF 63.19 Mb
Dobrov, Siti & Lila Fa - This Way (TIMMY (RU) Remix) / Key Gm, BPM 123, 5:51, MP3 14.09 Mb, AIFF 62.00 Mb
Dobrov, Siti & Lila Fa - This Way / Key Gm, BPM 121, 6:05, MP3 14.64 Mb, AIFF 64.42 Mb
Eclept - Enigma / Key Gm, BPM 121, 5:57, MP3 14.32 Mb, AIFF 63.02 Mb
Eclept - Save My Love / Key Am, BPM 123, 6:38, MP3 15.97 Mb, AIFF 70.26 Mb
Far - Khokana (Nopopstar Remix) / Key Ebm, BPM 120, 6:00, MP3 14.44 Mb, AIFF 63.54 Mb
Far - Khokana / Key Ebm, BPM 122, 6:34, MP3 15.81 Mb, AIFF 69.55 Mb
Frxnco - In the Obscurity / Key Dbm, BPM 124, 6:19, MP3 15.22 Mb, AIFF 66.96 Mb
GC System - Godzin / Key Bm, BPM 124, 8:04, MP3 19.40 Mb, AIFF 85.40 Mb
GC System - One / Key Cm, BPM 124, 7:42, MP3 18.51 Mb, AIFF 81.47 Mb
Gazfluz - Unknown Shaman / Key F, BPM 124, 5:19, MP3 12.82 Mb, AIFF 56.38 Mb
Haze-M - Trip Buddy / Key Cm, BPM 122, 7:52, MP3 18.93 Mb, AIFF 83.32 Mb
Izo Darko - Charlo / Key Fm, BPM 121, 7:09, MP3 17.18 Mb, AIFF 75.63 Mb
Izo Darko - Falling / Key Dbm, BPM 124, 5:41, MP3 13.67 Mb, AIFF 60.16 Mb
JAHAYA - Cosmic Gate / Key Abm, BPM 124, 7:03, MP3 16.96 Mb, AIFF 74.64 Mb
JAHAYA - Land of Legends / Key Dbm, BPM 120, 6:13, MP3 14.94 Mb, AIFF 65.75 Mb
JAHAYA - Red Wine / Key Abm, BPM 118, 7:07, MP3 17.13 Mb, AIFF 75.38 Mb
JAHAYA - Spectra / Key Ebm, BPM 121, 5:37, MP3 13.53 Mb, AIFF 59.52 Mb
Jackie Jeff - Access Denied / Key Fm, BPM 123, 6:50, MP3 16.43 Mb, AIFF 72.32 Mb
Jackie Jeff - Saturn / Key Em, BPM 123, 6:26, MP3 15.50 Mb, AIFF 68.19 Mb
Jasminova & Pablo Senbawy - 4U / Key Bb, BPM 125, 6:13, MP3 14.96 Mb, AIFF 65.81 Mb
Jasminova & Pablo Senbawy - Dance in the Jungle / Key Abm, BPM 125, 6:44, MP3 16.19 Mb, AIFF 71.23 Mb
K KARDEN & Savill - Suomi / Key F#m, BPM 123, 6:54, MP3 16.59 Mb, AIFF 73.01 Mb
Kate Rogalski & Monta (TN) - Take My Hand / Key Am, BPM 122, 6:59, MP3 16.80 Mb, AIFF 73.96 Mb
Kiermo - Just Wait / Key Dm, BPM 122, 6:26, MP3 15.49 Mb, AIFF 68.18 Mb
LowAM & HERNMATT - Ultra / Key Gm, BPM 123, 5:40, MP3 13.64 Mb, AIFF 60.02 Mb
MANDU - Jacky / Key Em, BPM 124, 6:00, MP3 14.46 Mb, AIFF 63.61 Mb
Markin, Broska & Yelow - Mandala / Key F#, BPM 122, 4:47, MP3 11.53 Mb, AIFF 50.71 Mb
Matvienkov - I Wanna Dance / Key Fm, BPM 127, 6:08, MP3 14.75 Mb, AIFF 64.92 Mb
N3UX - Dusk (Extended Mix) / Key Fm, BPM 124, 5:50, MP3 14.06 Mb, AIFF 61.84 Mb
Nasjon - Alignment / Key Em, BPM 122, 7:13, MP3 17.35 Mb, AIFF 76.38 Mb
Nasjon - Two of Us / Key Em, BPM 129, 7:30, MP3 18.02 Mb, AIFF 79.33 Mb
Nomer 21 - Mitchell's Cave / Key G, BPM 123, 4:39, MP3 11.20 Mb, AIFF 49.26 Mb
Nomer 21 - The Chief's Hut / Key Eb, BPM 122, 6:51, MP3 16.47 Mb, AIFF 72.46 Mb
Nomer 21 - View of the Tribe / Key F#, BPM 122, 6:31, MP3 15.70 Mb, AIFF 69.09 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (A X L Remix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 6:56, MP3 16.68 Mb, AIFF 73.42 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Ahhyeno Remix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 6:56, MP3 16.68 Mb, AIFF 73.42 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Alexey Slim Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 5:54, MP3 14.21 Mb, AIFF 62.50 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Atche Remix) / Key Am, BPM 119, 7:04, MP3 17.01 Mb, AIFF 74.86 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Atique Remix) / Key A, BPM 122, 7:36, MP3 18.30 Mb, AIFF 80.55 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Boel Remix) / Key Am, BPM 123, 5:51, MP3 14.09 Mb, AIFF 62.00 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Broken RY Remix) / Key Am, BPM 118, 7:48, MP3 18.76 Mb, AIFF 82.56 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (David Puron Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 6:37, MP3 15.91 Mb, AIFF 70.02 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Deem Remix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 6:56, MP3 16.68 Mb, AIFF 73.42 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Di:us Remix) / Key Am, BPM 105, 6:33, MP3 15.74 Mb, AIFF 69.29 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Hunter (TN) Remix) / Key A, BPM 122, 5:46, MP3 13.89 Mb, AIFF 61.11 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Jenya Miller Afro Mix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 7:00, MP3 16.85 Mb, AIFF 74.15 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Kovax Remix) / Key Am, BPM 118, 6:38, MP3 15.95 Mb, AIFF 70.19 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (MAGD (EG) Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 6:18, MP3 15.15 Mb, AIFF 66.67 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Nedisco Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 5:34, MP3 13.42 Mb, AIFF 59.03 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (RAYBO Remix) / Key A, BPM 120, 6:08, MP3 14.76 Mb, AIFF 64.96 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Seething Flow Remix) / Key Am, BPM 122, 7:01, MP3 16.86 Mb, AIFF 74.22 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (The Mozati Remix) / Key Am, BPM 115, 6:54, MP3 16.61 Mb, AIFF 73.12 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (Vladimir Virus Club Mix) / Key Am, BPM 120, 8:20, MP3 20.04 Mb, AIFF 88.24 Mb
Nopopstar & An Rosen - Uzor (toy5bro Remix) / Key A, BPM 160, 6:48, MP3 16.36 Mb, AIFF 72.01 Mb
Nopopstar - Acid Kids / Key Em, BPM 123, 6:38, MP3 15.97 Mb, AIFF 70.26 Mb
Nopopstar - Begel / Key Abm, BPM 123, 6:24, MP3 15.42 Mb, AIFF 67.85 Mb
Numeric Space - Get Down / Key G, BPM 123, 6:46, MP3 16.28 Mb, AIFF 71.63 Mb
Patrick Medina - Priestess / Key Am, BPM 118, 6:51, MP3 16.48 Mb, AIFF 72.51 Mb
Paul Weekend - One Alone / Key Bbm, BPM 124, 6:50, MP3 16.46 Mb, AIFF 72.42 Mb
Qmeer - 50 Million $ / Key Am, BPM 126, 7:45, MP3 18.63 Mb, AIFF 82.02 Mb
Qmeer - Durbala / Key Abm, BPM 122, 7:05, MP3 17.04 Mb, AIFF 75.00 Mb
Qoma - Nerves / Key Dbm, BPM 123, 6:15, MP3 15.03 Mb, AIFF 66.13 Mb
Ruslana Taranuha - Morning Comes / Key Am, BPM 124, 5:48, MP3 13.98 Mb, AIFF 61.50 Mb
SOLI - Spacetoon / Key Em, BPM 123, 6:01, MP3 14.48 Mb, AIFF 63.72 Mb
Shah - Take Me High / Key Abm, BPM 124, 6:18, MP3 15.18 Mb, AIFF 66.79 Mb
Steel Tone - Chicken Wolf / Key Gm, BPM 124, 6:44, MP3 16.19 Mb, AIFF 71.24 Mb
Steel Tone - Dahu / Key F, BPM 124, 6:55, MP3 16.65 Mb, AIFF 73.28 Mb
Steel Tone - La Seine / Key Gm, BPM 124, 6:49, MP3 16.40 Mb, AIFF 72.17 Mb
Twol - Indina / Key Em, BPM 120, 6:11, MP3 14.88 Mb, AIFF 65.48 Mb
Van Fabrik - Atlantis / Key Dbm, BPM 122, 7:09, MP3 17.20 Mb, AIFF 75.69 Mb
Van Fabrik - Magic Trip / Key Am, BPM 124, 7:45, MP3 18.62 Mb, AIFF 81.98 Mb
Van Fabrik - Metamorphosis / Key Cm, BPM 121, 7:08, MP3 17.18 Mb, AIFF 75.61 Mb
YY - Teleport / Key Abm, BPM 123, 6:46, MP3 16.28 Mb, AIFF 71.63 Mb
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2023.03.17 14:36 nyx_bringer-of-stars Finished my first Bingo card + mini-reviews
 | In August of last year I was in a sort of book slump and I didn’t know what to read next. I was searching the internet for fantasy top lists and stumbled across this sub. After years of reading AITA, I finally decided to take the plunge and join reddit, literally just so I could participate in this sub. I discovered the book Bingo card and it reignited my reading passion. Luckily many of the books I had already read since April applied and the rest I discovered from the Bingo threads. submitted by nyx_bringer-of-stars to Fantasy [link] [comments] To up the ante and give myself a bit of a challenge, I decided my card would be no-men-authors.* *Men were allowed if they were in multi-author groups with women, for the short story anthology book which also had women, or if I didn’t know they were a man. The last one was the case for P. Djèlí Clark and I reasoned that since I loved the book and it had a female protagonist it could stay. I only got back into reading for pleasure about 5 years ago (I left academia and finally had the time for pleasure reading, but that’s a whole other story) and so many of these authors were new to me discoveries - 22/25 squares! A note on the ratings – I’m fairly easy to please when it comes to fun reading. If I like a book I will rate it high regardless of its flaws or whether or not it is ‘literary’ or something like that. So its basically my enjoyment rating and not a quality rating (although the two are sort of linked). https://preview.redd.it/3eqyk0ovxaoa1.jpg?width=4226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41fcb6dba99cbfc4297bd80ef2501bddabec6976 Top LGBTQIA List – hard mode Greenhollow Duology (Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country) by Emily Tesh (3.5/5) Summary: Book-smart folklore hunter buys a mansion attached to an ancient wood and stumbles into the life of the reclusive, possibly immortal woods caretaker, proceeds to get caught by a malevolent spirit and needs rescue. Liked: I’m a sucker for legend/myth retellings so when I saw these books described as a ‘lush reimagining of the Green Man legend’ they went straight into my TBR list. The forest/woods setting and the cozy eldritch vibes were just up my street. And although there was a bit of life-threatening conflict in book 1, both books felt very cozy and low stakes. I also quite enjoy the opposites begrudgingly fall in love trope, especially if one of them is a grumpy introvert. In the second book, the addition of Maud was a welcome break to the tension between Henry and Tobias and I actually liked her character a bit more than the two mains. Disliked: I thought both books were a bit too short. I am a fan of novellas done right, but I hate it when it feels like authors leave things out for the sake of shortness or just to make you think things are ‘mysterious.’ I thought more detail could have been added for characterization and explanation and backstory of the events in the book. Just because a character is reticent doesn’t mean that the readers should be kept in the dark as well. Weird Ecology – hard mode The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells (5/5) Summary: Orphaned shapeshifter Moon doesn’t know what he is or where he comes from and in his humanoid form tries to make a life in various ground-living communities. But the ancient evil beings known as the Fell who ravage cities and eat people seem to be expanding their empire making life on the Three Worlds difficult. Liked: I initially planned to read just The Cloud Roads, but left it for last since I had a feeling I would like the series and want to read all of it in one go. And boy was my intuition correct. I was absolutely hooked from page 1 and it has been a really long time since a book or a series pulled me in so completely. I loved these books and the characters and managed to finish all of them and the short stories before the Bingo deadline (which means I cant use them on next years card, whoops). The world was lush and fascinating (Flying islands! Shape-shifting flying lizards! A plethora of sentient land, sea, and air species! Ancient relics with dangerous magic! Trees the size of mountains!). The characters are relatable and sympathetic – I desperately wanted to know what Moon was and I wanted him to find his people. The plots of all the books and short stories had me on the edge of my seat and reading well past my bedtime. The threats felt real as some side characters were killed. The Raksuran views on love and sex made for interesting character interactions, both amongst themselves, with Moon (who is essentially an outsider), and with other races of people on the Three Worlds. All of the books were very well written and I enjoyed them completely – I can see myself re-reading them in the future. Disliked: In book 1, the main baddies are the Fell and they felt very one dimensional, classic evil-because-evil. Their story gets expanded a bit in the other books, but they never really become well-rounded adversaries. Some sort of explanation for why they are the way they are, instead of just ‘they are evil’ would have made these books outstanding. Also, I’m still not really sure how I feel about an entire race of beings based on eusocial insects (think ants or bees) with rigid gender roles and castes, but this is probably the best example of this that I have come across. It was very well done and the whole predetermination at birth thing bothered me less than I thought it would. Two or more authors Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews (4/5) Summary: Earth is an interplanetary waystation and aliens stay at inns shielded from humans by magic. Young innkeeper Dina becomes embroiled in a conflict in her town involving a werewolf, vampires, and dangerous predatory animals and she must break more than a few innkeeper rules to keep their presence secret from the locals. Liked: The protagonist Dina is a no-nonsense, smart, strong-willed but perceptive magical innkeeper and a likeable story teller which was good since first-person narrative can be so hit or miss for me. Sometimes I just do not want to be inside a characters head and feel they are doing the story a disservice by telling it. It was a quick read, but it had enough exposition and characterization, and a good denouement for a short novel. I also liked that there is a larger mystery that is (presumably) going to be picked up the next books in the series and you the reader don’t know yet how plot relevant it is, but it’s a good hook for future installments. Dina is very much ‘I do not have time for romance or the drama that other species of men bring’ in this book which made the posturing and attempts at romance from the two potential suitors fun to read (get out your popcorn folks and watch the drama unfold). I enjoyed the dialogue and banter between characters and the not so subtle nod to the human/werewolf/vampire love triangle trope. I will deffo be picking up the rest of the series. Disliked: The prose was a bit simplistic and at times I thought it leaned a bit too heavily on classic urban fantasy tropes. Historical SFF – hard mode These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (4/5) Summary: A retelling of Romeo and Juliet but gangsters set in 1920’s Shanghai with a monster running amok and killing people. Liked: I have to admit the concept of star-crossed gangsters in 1920’s Shanghai fighting a horrifying monster was a lot of fun. Once I got into the book the plot and the central mystery was engaging enough that I zoomed through the book. The worldbuilding was great and gave the book an immersive feel. You could almost smell and hear the sounds of the city around you. The monster was imaginative and a bit terrifying if I’m being honest (which was unexpected but good). If you are easily grossed out and do not like a bit of horror maybe give this one a pass. Disliked: I didn’t know this was a duology (my bad) and I’m not really a fan of whew the monster is dead and everything is resolved and on the last page it turns out the horror has just begun. It always feels a bit cheap, a bit of a bait and switch, but that might just be me. My only other gripe was how often the characters discuss/think about how horrible immigrants are. I get that the author was trying to show why the gangsters rose to power, and the impacts that colonialism had on early 20th century Shanghai, but it felt a bit overdone and simplistic. Set in Space – hard mode\* (*I think the human characters are from Mars or other colonized planets but it wasn’t clear) Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (4/5) Summary: Captain Eva Inocente’s sister has been kidnapped by a criminal syndicate and the captain and her motley inter-species crew of morally grey cargo runners must do unsavory things to get her back. Liked: Multi-cultural, multi-species space opera with a likeable foul-mouthed protagonist and cast of characters, although it had only one POV. The plot itself wasn’t particularly imaginative or different, but the planet hopping hijinks were fun. It felt like a mash-up of the politics and evil science of The Expanse with the intergalactic federation of alien planets and species of The Wayfarers. The psychic cats were a joy and a bit under-used but then again I’m a big fan of animals making chaos due to curiosity. I have seen reviews where people were annoyed at the amount of Spanish phrases in the book, but I was fine with it. Most were just swears and if you look them up once you know them, but also most I was able to figure out by context clues (and besides I like to collect odd knowledge like saying something is mango rice [arroz con mango] means its a mess). Disliked: It was a bit too much action-packed – the characters barely had time to breathe in between the various crises. Not enough psychic cat hijinks. Stand alone The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (4/5) Summary: Plucky young girl jumps into the ocean on the back of a dragon to enter the spirit realm, face a sea god, and save her family. Liked: As I said above, I love a good reimagining of myths/legends and this was a lovely story. I found it among a list of books for lovers of Studio Ghibli and it felt very much like Spirited Away in the best possible way. If you are looking for a cozy, atmospheric, spirit world story I recommend this one. The characters were likable and the love and courage they had felt very real. It is a YA book, so some of the plot points and mysteries were a bit obvious, but that didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the story. Disliked: The pacing was totally off and really kept the book from a higher rating. It felt too slow in some places and rushed at others and I got the feeling it was meant to be a longer book but someone (An editor? A beta reader?) forced the author to cut it down. A lot of action happened in some places with only a few lines of text or explanation, which was frustrating. Equally frustrating was when it seemed like conversations were half there or cut short weirdly – again like someone cut out big chunks of the book for sake of brevity. (How is anyone falling in love when all you’ve shown ‘on-screen’ is the exchange of 4 statements each over the course of a month or more!?) Anti-hero – hard mode Nimona by ND Stevenson (4/5) Summary: Angry young shapeshifter joins a famous villain to take on the regiment of heroes protecting the king’s peace. Liked: I’m a big fan of Stevenson’s She-Ra series, so when I was looking for recs for this square I figured I’d give this a go. It’s a short-ish graphic novel that grabs you and doesn’t let go, told from the POV of the villains (likable villains like Gru from Despicable Me). Although how Nimona got her shape-shifting powers is never fully explained and the reader is left to ponder why she became so homicidal, it was clear that it was through some sort of trauma. I enjoyed the comedic thread of her turning into a shark and although I usually dislike open-ended endings, this one was well done. Disliked: A teensy more backstory would have been nice – it wasn’t very clear why there was a need for an entire training academy of good guy heroes if there was only 1 apparent villain. Book club book – hard mode The Cartographers by Peng Shephard (3/5) Summary: Nell is a discredited and blacklisted former cartographer. When her estranged father is seemingly murdered she is drawn back in to her former life to try and unravel the mystery surrounding her father’s work, which may just be connected to the argument that led to their estrangement and her professional downfall. Liked: I really wanted to like this story more than I did since it had a lot of elements that I generally enjoy. Intelligent people nerding out on arcane academic pursuits, puzzle-like historical mysteries involving said academic pursuits, new and interesting magic systems, multiple POVs to show the past from different character angles, smart, driven, well rounded characters, an adversary that at first seemed sympathetic. The book started out well with a believable backstory on Nell’s professional downfall and subsequent limits on job options, and Nell was a likeable character, but that’s all I got for positives. Alas, I picked the book apart during the two book club discussions and I just could not get over the failings to enjoy it more. Disliked: the ‘cartographers’ were not map makers as the title would have you believe, they were a mix of museum/map preservationists, map historians, and cartographers (map makers) – for a book meant to depict nerdy academics these would be important distinctions as they are not all the same. The PhD projects did not strike me as something that a university would actually give a PhD for (and I have one, albeit in a different field) let alone 7 related PhDs. The past tense POVs were all told in the exact same voice as the present tense main character – I just couldn’t get into them and believe they were different people. The danger, and the reason that the adversary ‘turned bad’ was totally unbelievable and nonsensical. The system of magic also had flaws that were never explained – what constitutes a ‘map’ and why can some drawings of a map have the magic and not others? PS if you want a book with academics nerding out done right go read To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers. It is excellent and one of the most accurate portrayals of biologists getting jazzed about their work and discovering new species that I’ve come across. Cool weapon The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (5/5) Summary: Almost 1000 years ago balance in the world was disrupted and a chaotic evil dragon that was set to destroy the world was banished. Exactly how he was banished was lost amongst myth and legend, but the protagonists must figure it out since all signs point to his return. Magical practitioners from a secret society in the East must band together with dragon riders from the West and the Queendom of Virtuedom (where both magic and dragons are outlawed) to defeat the evil once and for all. Liked: I loved the epic-ness of this tale (ok that’s not a real word but I hope you get my gist). It is high-stakes, must save the world, continent-spanning fantasy with magic and dragons and politics – what more could anyone want? If you like A Song of Ice and Fire, but get tired of all the in your face rape and torture, then this is for you. I loved the mythology of this world and how different countries developed different secret sects of magic or dragon-riders. I also enjoyed that the book didn’t rely on heteronormative society structures, which to be honest, gets a bit boring after a while. The normalcy of same-sex relationships and how they fit into society and all the queendom politics felt like a fresh take for what was an otherwise traditional epic fantasy. The relationships between the characters was another plus point and the romantic side plot felt like a natural development out of these relationships. Disliked: Similar to the Stories of Raksura, the dragon adversary was pretty one-dimensionally evil, but also similar to that series it didn’t detract from my enjoyment. Revolutions and rebellions - hard mode The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (4.5/5) Summary: In an alternate Salem, USA where witches were real and the witch trials resulted in magic being forbidden, three estranged sisters join the suffrage movement. The sisters must reconcile their past grievances, and the traumatic past of their witch descendants to help forge a new world where perhaps women can vote and also practice practical magic again. Liked: Witchy women inciting a rebellion with both magic and civil disobedience turned out to be a better plot than I had initially thought. The three sisters were all distinct characters with their own motivations, fears, desires, and each had a different take on the unfolding story and their shared history. This was a richly detailed story that involved a lot of personal and collective past trauma for the sisters and women magic practitioners in general, but it didn’t feel as heavy as it could have. It helped that it was interspersed with uncovering past mysteries and general chaotic mayhem inherent in rebellions. The story also picked up a bit when the political adversary started using magic against the sisters and the suffragettes; for once the evil being to overcome had a decent backstory and reasoning. Disliked: It started off a bit meh for me as it was heavily focused on the suffrage part and I’m a terrible feminist for admitting that it was a bit boring compared with the magic and mayhem later in the book. Name in the title Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (3.5/5) Summary: Lavinia was a minor character in Roman mythology as Aeneas’ final wife in Virgil’s epic Aeneid. This is her story of how she almost tore the kingdom of Latium apart by choosing Aeneas. Liked: This is Le Guin, so it goes without saying that it is a well written book with lovely prose. If you want to know more about the daily lives of ancient Romans, this will probably interest you as I imagine it’s also well researched since Le Guin herself read and translated the Aeneid into prose for this story. The best parts of the book are the conversations that Lavinia has with the poet. Disliked: It pains me to rate a Le Guin book so low, but this story was just not for me. It turns out I’m really not all that interested in ancient Rome or the daily lives of people back then. I had to read a lot of Roman/Greek mythology in school, including Homer’s epics, so it appears as though I’ve had my fill (I know this is a bit ridiculous coming from someone whose username is literally the Greek goddess of the night). I struggled to stay interested in the story and it was a slog to complete it. I only did because I really couldn’t be arsed to figure out what else to read for this square and because I’m a completest and I very rarely DNF a book. Author uses initials – hard mode Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher (5/5) Summary: Marra, the third-born princess of a poor kingdom decides to embark on a quest to save her sister from the tyrannical king she was married off to. She must complete 3 impossible things to broker the help of a graveswitch. In addition to the graveswitch, Marra is joined on her quest by a reluctant fairy godmother, a former knight, a bone dog, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Liked: I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I’ve had several of T. Kingfisher’s books in the TBR pile for years and only just got around to reading one now for Bingo. And since I absolutely adored this book I’ll be reading the others in short order. It isn’t always the case, but in this book it worked really well to be dropped in the story after Marra has already started her quest. The past is revealed bit by bit, but the pacing is so well done that you never feel like you’re missing important information. Although Marra is young, none of the other important characters are, and their combined wisdom and life experience are what make this quest possible. Also, the side characters felt very reminiscent of Discworld characters, complete with wit, dry humor, and a bit of absurdity so if that’s your jam then you’ll enjoy this book. Disliked: I honestly can’t think of a single thing I disliked about this book. Published in 2022 The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik (4.5/5) Summary: El and almost everyone ‘graduated’ from the Scholomance, except the plan went tragically wrong and now she has to figure a way back in to the cursed magic school. As if that wasn’t enough, someone is still destroying enclaves and in the process of trying to save them El and her friends learn the horrifying truths behind their creation. Liked: Even though I’m a fan of Novik’s other work I actually waited until a month before this book came out and then read the other two Scholomance books (A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate), partly because I hate waiting years between books (22 years of waiting for the rest of A Song of Ice and Fire has burned me) and partly because my husband told me book 2 ended in a cliffhanger and I knew I’d be frustrated. So I read all 3 in one go. Initially I was annoyed with El as a character, but she grew on me. I had to keep reminding myself that she was just a kid growing up in a very grim reality. In fact these books are probably the grimmest I’ve read since I stopped reading grimdark and horror, but if you’re interested in schools of magic and magic that has consequences these are great reads. Despite the dark tone, I enjoyed the entire trilogy and I thought Novik stuck the landing in the final book. Although I had guessed already in book 2 who/what was damaging the enclaves (the why eluded me and it ended up being worse than I imagined) and the gist of the reason El’s prophetic great grandmother had the family shun her, the reveal of both was still satisfying. Also similar to the first two, this book deals with some pretty heavy moral/philosophical concepts, chief among them is it right to sacrifice a few people for the many – and if you agree with that then you are probably not the one being sacrificed. Disliked: It wasn’t so much of an issue in the final book, but El’s penchant for over-explaining every little thing did at times feel info-dumpy. I like knowing every little detail in everything I read and even I found it a bit off-putting at times. It’s a minor quibble though. Urban fantasy – hard mode Exorcism Academy by Asmodeus (https://ea.asmodrawscomics.com/) (4/5) Summary: Humans have been warring against various species of demons (Lucifer’s children) for centuries. They have figured out how to trap a demon on earth, pair them with specially trained humans (exorcists), and utilize their powers against other demons and monsters. This webcomic is the story of an exorcist and his paired demon who fall in love and the consequences of that. (Note, it’s not yet complete and is NSFW.) Liked: I’ve been following Asmodeus’ alter ego on twitter for years so I don’t know why it took me so long to start reading this comic. I started it last spring one day when I was off work ill and spent the entire 2 days off binging it. It’s well written, the art is fantastic, and it’s a fun read. It has quite a bit of nudity and smut (the mains are both male but there’s a dash of hetero relationships/smut so there’s something for everyone) which I enjoy, but if that’s not your cup of tea then it’s not for you. The story is intriguing, there’s a bit of magic, demon mythology, monster slaying, young people goofing off, and we’re nearing the climax which I think will be a big battle. I also enjoy that it doesn’t shy away from dealing with moral conundrums (it does delve into the thorny issue of how the demons who are paired are essentially slaves) and although the demons initially seem like stereotypically evil beings, they aren’t all that way so it never felt like it was relying too heavily on tropes. Disliked: The first chapter was uploaded images of pencil drawings which made it hard to read, but Asmo has been going back and slowly replacing them with the digital inked panels they use now. Set in Africa Dreamblood duology (The Killing Moon [3/5] and The Shadowed Sun [4/5]) by N.K. Jemisin Summary: In Gujarrah priests can gather dream magic that healers can use to heal, or Gatherers can use to kill those judged to be corrupt. Book 1 follows the acolyte Nijiri as he becomes a Gatherer and his mentor Ehiru as they try and unravel the mystery of who or what is killing people in dreams. Book 2 picks up several years after the first and finds Gujarrah under the tyrannical rule of a neighboring city. Hope for rebellion comes from two unlikely and slightly unwilling allies – the first women healer of Gujarrah and an exiled former Sunset prince now living among a nomadic desert tribe. Liked: Having read and loved the Broken Earth trilogy I had high hopes for these books. Set in an alternate Egypt, there was of course a lot of terminology to wrap your head around in the beginning, but it wasn’t as difficult going/confusing as the start of the Fifth Season. The books were of course well written with rich and fully realized settings and backstory/mythologies. I liked the first book less than the second, I’m not entirely sure why other than I didn’t find the points of view of either of the priests all that interesting. I also didn’t find the central theme of power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely all that interesting either. The second book, which has POVs from a much more varied cast of characters was enjoyable. I also like it when there are unexpected allies or alliances and different groups of people forced together and in turn that changes the way they see the world. Disliked: The first book was a bit on the long side, but I probably felt it more as I wasn’t really enjoying the story. As I said above I can’t really put my finger on particular things I didn’t like, I just didn’t find book 1 as interesting as book 2. Non-human protagonist – hard mode Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton (3/5) Summary: The zombie apocalypse, but through the eyes of domesticated animals. This is their story, and how they survive the aftermath, told primarily by Shit Turd, a crow raised as a pet by humans. Liked: This was another book club book that I read and participated in the discussions as the same time as The Cartographers. A long time ago used to devour zombie stories, didn’t matter if they were books, short stories, graphic novels, TV, movies, I consumed them all. I was a zombie apocalypse connoisseur. I eventually grew out of this phase, it had been a while, and this one caught my attention since the POV was so novel and unique. While the cause of the zombie infection was never fully explained (how could it be from the animals perspective) the instigating or transmitting vector was identified by the animals and that was also quite different (its been done a few times but not overdone). All of this is to say that I really wanted to love this book, but I didn’t. The best parts were the chapters that had POVs from various wild and domesticated animals all over the world. These were brilliant and the author really thought about their lives and how they might think/respond to the world around them. Disliked: S.T.’s long-winded explanations were just too much. Everything was over-explained in agonizing detail. It got so bad that I started skimming through most of the book because I just could not focus on what was actually happening with all of those adjectives getting in the way. He wasn’t a good narrator and he desperately needed an editor. This book would have been fantastic as a novella. Keep all the various animal chapters as above and heavily edit the main story told by S.T. PS If you’re looking for a superb character-driven zombie apocalypse story, The Last of Us is an amazing show. Go! Watch it! It has one of the most believable and plausible scientific explanations that I’ve encountered for apocalypse stories. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (3/5) Summary: Set in an unknown universe at an unexplained time, two operatives on opposite sides of a time war begin a correspondence. Liked: After reading reviews on this sub, I knew this was one that people generally loved or hated. While I didn’t hate it, I didn’t love it either. It had many elements that should have led to my enjoyment, and the letters between the two operatives were fun to read, including their imaginative ways of ‘sending’ them, but it was just too difficult, too much of a slog. I liked the concept and the letters, and that was about it. Disliked: I read to relax from my mentally taxing job that requires much brain, and this novella was too much like work to enjoy. I spent too much effort trying to figure out what was going on when everything was cryptic and not explained. I know I’m a person that likes backstory, explanations, mythology, etc, but this book just had nothing. No explanations of anything at all. That’s just not for me. It took me longer to read this novella than many of the other full-length books I read for bingo, which pretty much says it all. Five short stories – hard mode\* (*I read the entire anthology but wasn’t sure if it counts as a short story anthology since some of them were novelette length) The Long List Anthology Volume 7 by various authors (4/5) It’s been a while since I picked up a short story anthology. My favorites in the past were edited by Gardner Dozios and/or GRRM and sadly Dozios is gone and GRRM isn’t looking likely to edit one anytime soon. This was a good choice though. My favorites were: "Sinew and Steel and What They Told" by Carrie Vaughn "My Country Is a Ghost" by Eugenia Triantafyllou "The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly" by Alix E. Harrow "Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise" by Lauren Ring "The Salt Witch" by Martha Wells "Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City" by Arula Ratnakar Mental Health – hard mode The Kingston Cycle (Witchmark; Stormsong; and Soulstar) by C.L. Polk (5/5) Summary: Set in a quasi-Edwardian English world where magic practitioners are arrested and imprisoned in witches’ asylums while the wealthy and powerful are allowed to practice magic in secret. The first book follows Miles, who has returned from the war with PTSD to return to his life as a medic. He heals his patients in secret with magic and uncovers a diabolical magical sickness while falling in love with a mysterious, possibly fae man. The second book follows Miles’ sister Grace, and her break from her powerful fathefamily to try and save their country from itself while she falls in love with a potentially dangerous reporter. The final book follows Miles’ friend Robin as she discovers her own latent magical powers and the aftermath of her partner’s release from the witches’ asylum. Liked: I loved all three of these books. The system of magic and how it could be harnessed for good or evil was fantastic. It was so very realistic how the powerful could harness magic ‘for the greater good’ to do something that the country relied on but was actually horrifying and caused extreme suffering for a portion of the population. The magical fae-like beings were an interesting addition as well, and I liked the twist that they were more moral and just than the humans. I really loved that all three books were centered on non-hetero romances and how people who have experienced pain and suffering can survive and even find joy in life. There was a lot of trauma to go around, and at times it did feel heavy, but not dark. There was always hope. Disliked: I had a minor quibble that the end of book 1 was a bit deus ex machina (specifically relating to Miles but I don’t want to give spoilers), but they’re books with magic and fae creatures so that was always a possibility. Self Published (not sure if this counts as hard mode since its not on Goodreads at all) Alchemy of Love by science_is_magic (https://archiveofourown.org/works/26524690/chapters/64650748) (4/5) Summary: This is a Strange the DreameMuse of Nightmares fan fic that picks up just after the events of Muse when they go through the portal. It’s a happily ever after romance that focuses on two side characters, Ruza and Thyon as they stumble their way into dangerous situations with magical creatures, diplomatic incidents, and each others arms on this new world. Liked: Coming in at a whopping 129,000 words and 40 chapters this is probably one of the longest fan fics I’ve ever read. The author laid some good groundwork for the build-up of the romance and there was a good amount of sweet/cozy scenes in between plot and smut. The plot was decently imaginative and the original characters were fun – there was a lot of nice banter and dialogue with them. The worldbuilding was pretty good as well and honestly even though it was a fan fic on AO3 it was just as good as some of the self-pubbed and indie pubbed fantasy romances I’ve read. Disliked: The first few chapters were a bit lacking on descriptions and world building, but it got better from there. Obviously, it could have used an editor to clean up the meandering plot a bit, but considering some of the shite books I’ve paid actual money for, this was a minor quibble. Award finalist, not won – hard mode (British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel and Best Newcomer 2021) Threading the Labyrinth by Tiffani Angus (3.5/5) Summary: American owner of a failing gallery, Toni, is unexpectedly called to England when she inherits a manor house in Hertfordshire from a mysterious lost relative. A cozy, historical ghost story centering around a haunted manor garden that shows snippets of the lives of previous inhabitants through the centuries. Liked: I enjoyed reading the snippets of the lives of the people who had lived at and worked on the manor. This wasn’t a very linear story, and jumped back and forth through time a lot, so it was at times difficult to keep track of. But once I realized that it wasn’t all that important to keep track of the different times, it was more enjoyable. This is also one of those stories that, like many Studio Ghibli movies, doesn’t have a real plot. So if you need one, this book isn’t for you. What it does have is cozy magical garden vibes and character-driven snippets of stories and a haunted garden. Disliked: It was a difficult book to get into. The modern timeline story that starts and ends the book about Toni inheriting the manor wasn’t all that interesting to me at first. The descriptive prose was ok and the worldbuilding also just ok. BIPOC author The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (4/5) Summary: Aboard a pirate ship, an orphaned girl has to take the identity of a man to earn the respect of the crew. She befriends a young Imperial Lady being sent to marry a general who is held captive by he crew. Together they hatch a plan to free themselves and another captive - a mermaid. Liked: I’ve got to confess that I bought this book purely because the title was intriguing and the cover art is gorgeous. I’m really glad I did though; it was an enjoyable and interesting read. All three of the nouns in the title are characters in the book (the Sea is a sentient being which was neat) and each has their own section of the book relating to the main characters Flora and Lady Evelyn meeting each of them. It does have a happy ending, but considering that it’s YA I was surprised at how horrible Flora’s past was, and how horrible the pirates were (content warning – her brother is raped by the pirates as a sort of hazing and takes magical drugs and alcohol to numb himself). The book wasn’t overly grim, but it did confront the harsh realities of this world. Disliked: The middle part with the witch, and one of the girls learning about her latent magical abilities, fit less well into the story as a whole as the other two parts. Some of the aspects of that section felt like unused Chekhov’s guns – we were shown things that didn’t seem entirely relevant to either the plot or the characters’ development. Shape shifters – hard mode A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (5/5) Summary: In a steampunk 1920’s Cairo, where humans live alongside magical Djinn, Fatma, the youngest women agent of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities chases down the suspected return of a powerful magic wielder from the past. Liked: If anyone had told me that a story with what is essentially a magical FBI agent as the protagonist would be one of my favorite reads of 2022, I’d have probably laughed myself silly. And yet, here we are. I loved the steampunk setting, I loved clever Fatma and her stylish, dandy suits, and her magical girlfriend Siti, and I loved the Djinn and the magic. And who doesn’t love a good murder mystery involving a weird secret society? The story was so well written I could deffo see how it had been nominated fowon so many awards. Disliked: Nothing – this book was brilliant. No Ifs, Ands, or Buts Hex Appeal by Kate Johnson (3.5/5) Summary: Essie is a witch with an apparently mostly useless magical ability, living with other witches in Beldam House in Essex. Josh is an American looking for a new life renovating the English cottage he just inherited. When Josh looks deeper into the history of the properties he inherited, he discovers one called Beldam House, which he can’t seem to find, that hasn’t paid rent since 1700, and his poking around upends Essie’s life. Liked: I saw a review describing this book as a cozy autumnal Encanto meets Hocus Pocus and that’s pretty spot on so I’m using it here. I enjoyed all the different witches and their odd powers and the central mystery was decent. This was a fairly standard fantasy romance, enjoyable, with a believable build up (including magical mishaps and misunderstandings) to the relationship part. It had plenty of magic and a magical evil being to defeat, so plenty of plot. Disliked: There wasn’t much wooing, flirting, or witty banter and Essie’s pompous mother was pretty stereotypical. Family matters – hard mode Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (4.5/5) Summary: A stressed zillennial lesbian fights gods, ghosts, gangsters & grandmas in 21st century Penang. Liked: This book was so different from any other book I read the past year and I really enjoyed it. After graduating university and not knowing what to do, the protagonist Jess moves back to Malaysia with her parents, a country she hasn’t lived in since she was a toddler. She manages to stumble into the world of gods, spirits, and gangsters, a world that her grandmother and uncle were deeply involved in and her mother fled from. There was a good balance between Jess’s modern life and uncovering her family’s secrets and throughout the story is interwoven with Malaysian myths and legends. Disliked: Jess makes quite a few bad decisions that land her in dangerous situations, some of which were bordering on my tolerance for intimate violence. Most of her bad decisions were believable considering the stress she was under, but there was 1 in particular that was slightly unbelievable that someone could be that naïve. |
2022.11.21 01:43 TigerTotHotdish31 Mental health self love journal prompt
 | So for my self love spread in my mental health junk/art journal. I combined some art journal prompts I found online. Mason jar and found poetry. submitted by TigerTotHotdish31 to JournalingIsArt [link] [comments] the poem is on the second page and i was originally going to cut out words from a magazine but inspiration finally hit and I had to write it down right away. The poem/prose is something I wrote myself...found within myself..hope that counts as found poetry lol. Anyway I hope you enjoy. This took me awhile to create. Its mixed media, crayon, water colors, markers, magazines, and a splash of newspaper. I am debating on adding some stickers. |
2022.11.07 14:16 Badatu Latest research articles published online [2022.11.06]
Physics
Sensors InternationalTitle: A novel amperometric biosensor for multi-enzymatic biosensing of triglycerides Author: Ali R. Jalalvand Volume: Sensors International 4(0), 100206 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100206 DOI: 10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100206
Title: A novel and highly selective aptamer-based sandwich-type biosensor assisted by second-order calibration methods for efficient biosensing of Streptococcus pneumoniae Author: Azam Yaghoobi, Ramin Abiri, Amirhoushang Alvandi, Elham Arkan, Ali R. Jalalvand Volume: Sensors International 3(0), 100203 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100203 DOI: 10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100203
Title: Photocatalytic degradation of direct green & fast orange red dyes: Electrochemical sensor of lead using cupric oxide nanoparticles synthesized via sonochemical route Author: D.A. Raghupathy, G. Ramgopal, C.R. Ravikumar Volume: Sensors International 3(0), 100204 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100204 DOI: 10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100204
Title: Explainable machine learning of the breast cancer staging for designing smart biomarker sensors Author: Muhammad Idrees, Ayesha Sohail Volume: Sensors International 3(0), 100202 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100202 DOI: 10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100202
Title: Solar energy harvesting and wireless charging based temperature monitoring system for food storage Author: Xinqing Xiao, Meng Wang, Guoqing Cao Volume: Sensors International 4(0), 100208 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100208 DOI: 10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100208
Title: Analysis of BCB and SU 8 photonic waveguide in MZI architecture for point-of-care devices Author: S. Prasanna Kumaar, A. Sivasubramanian Volume: Sensors International 4(0), 100207 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100207 DOI: 10.1016/j.sintl.2022.100207
Material Science
Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer ResearchTitle: End-of-life options of tyres. A review Author: Francesco Valentini, Alessandro Pegoretti Volume: Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research 5(4), 203 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.aiepr.2022.08.006 DOI: 10.1016/j.aiepr.2022.08.006
Title: Novel uses of recycled rubber in civil applications Author: Daniele Rigotti, Andrea Dorigato Volume: Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research 5(4), 214 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.aiepr.2022.08.005 DOI: 10.1016/j.aiepr.2022.08.005
Title: Modification of EPDM seals to prevent aroma carry-over during the bottling of wine Author: David Müller, Jörg Gottmann, Johannes Lutz, Jens Schuster, Ulrich Fischer Volume: Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research 5(4), 270 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.aiepr.2022.08.004 DOI: 10.1016/j.aiepr.2022.08.004
Title: Editorial Board Volume: Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research 5(4), ii (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2542-5048(22)00045-800045-8) DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5048(22)00045-800045-8)
Bioactive Materials
Title: Engineered tumor cell-derived vaccines against cancer: The art of combating poison with poison Author: Xinyi Zhang, Hengqing Cui, Wenjun Zhang, Zhaoshen Li, Jie Gao Volume: Bioactive Materials 22(0), 491 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.10.016 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.10.016
Title: Injectable bone marrow microniches by co-culture of HSPCs with MSCs in 3D microscaffolds promote hematopoietic reconstitution from acute lethal radiation Author: Haiwei Liang, Yanxiao Ao, Wenjing Li, Kaini Liang, Baixue Tang, Junyang Li, Jianwei Wang, Xiaoyu Zhu, Yanan Du Volume: Bioactive Materials 22(0), 453 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.10.015 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.10.015
Title: Engineering human spinal microphysiological systems to model opioid-induced tolerance Author: Hongwei Cai, Zheng Ao, Chunhui Tian, Zhuhao Wu, Connor Kaurich, Zi Chen, Mingxia Gu, Andrea G. Hohmann, Ken Mackie, Feng Guo Volume: Bioactive Materials 22(0), 482 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.10.007 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.10.007
Title: Outside Front Cover Volume: Bioactive Materials 19(0), OFC (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2452-199X(22)00379-600379-6) DOI: 10.1016/S2452-199X(22)00379-600379-6)
Carbon Resources Conversion
Title: Alternative feedstock for the production of activated carbon with ZnCl2: Forestry residue biomass and waste wood Author: Dominik Bosch, Jan O. Back, David Gurtner, Sara Giberti, Angela Hofmann, Anke Bockreis Volume: Carbon Resources Conversion 5(4), 299 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.crcon.2022.09.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.crcon.2022.09.001
Title: A separate-type autothermal CH4 dry reforming system with exergy recuperation Author: Zhongkai Zhao, Yohanes Andre Situmorang, Ping An, Jingxuan Yang, Xiaogang Hao, Jenny Rizkiana, Abuliti Abudula, Guoqing Guan Volume: Carbon Resources Conversion 5(4), 310 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.crcon.2022.09.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.crcon.2022.09.002
Title: Optimization of ultrasound procedure for the sustainable production of oil from plum seeds Author: Ivana M. Savic Gajic, Ivan M. Savic Volume: Carbon Resources Conversion 6(1), 20 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.crcon.2022.10.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.crcon.2022.10.003
Title: Fluidized bed combustion of high water content alcohol aextraction herb residue and the impacts of blending wasted activated coke Author: Xuan Liu, Xinyu Zhu, Wenyan Wang, Bowen Shi, Guangyi Zhang, Jianling Zhang, Jiancheng Yang, Yanming Shen Volume: Carbon Resources Conversion 6(1), 11 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.crcon.2022.09.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.crcon.2022.09.003
Title: Hydrothermal pretreatment of protein-rich substrate: Modified phsiochemical properties and consequent responses in its anaerobic digestion Author: Fa Qiao, Guangyi Zhang, Jie Fan, Hang Zhang, Bowen Shi, Jiancheng Yang, Jianling Zhang, Zhennan Han Volume: Carbon Resources Conversion 6(1), 1 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.crcon.2022.10.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.crcon.2022.10.001
Energetic Materials Frontiers
Title: Cover Story Volume: Energetic Materials Frontiers 3(3), ii (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2666-6472(22)00068-900068-9) DOI: 10.1016/S2666-6472(22)00068-900068-9)
Title: Graphical Abstract Volume: Energetic Materials Frontiers 3(3), iii (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2666-6472(22)00069-000069-0) DOI: 10.1016/S2666-6472(22)00069-000069-0)
Title: Nitrogen heterocycle-based energetic materials: New opportunities and state-of-the-art Author: Qing-hua Zhang, Leonid L. Fershtat Volume: Energetic Materials Frontiers 3(3), 109 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.enmf.2022.09.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.enmf.2022.09.002
International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture
Title: A review on flexibility of free bending forming technology for manufacturing thin-walled complex-shaped metallic tubes Author: Ali Abd El-Aty, Xunzhong Guo, Myoung-Gyu Lee, Jie Tao, Yong Hou, Shenghan Hu, Tao Li, Cong Wu, Qiucheng Yang Volume: International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture 6(2), 165 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.007 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.007
Title: Study the influence of scandium content and annealing regimes on the properties of alloys 1580 and 1581 Author: Igor Lazarevich Konstantinov, Pavel Olegovich Yuryev, Vladimir Nikolaevich Baranov, Aleksandr Innokentyevich Bezrukikh, Sergey Borisovich Sidelnikov, Tamara Aleksandrovna Orelkina, Marina Vladimirovna Voroshilova, Maxim Yurievich Murashkin, Yuriy Viktorovich Baykovskiy, Evgeniy Gennadyevich Partyko, Nikita Andreevich Stepanenko, Yulbarskhon Nabievich Mansurov Volume: International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture 6(1), 15 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.002
Title: Feasibility analysis of obtaining tri-modal microstructure by multi-pass conventional forging combined with dual heat treatment for near-α titanium alloy with different initial microstructures Author: Zhikun Yin, Zhichao Sun, Long Huang, Yu Wang, Lijiao Yin Volume: International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture 6(1), 25 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.004 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.004
Title: Mechanical and thermal properties of graphene nanoplatelets-reinforced recycled polycarbonate composites Author: Devinda Wijerathne, Youyun Gong, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim, Chamil Abeykoon Volume: International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture 6(1), 117 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.001
Title: Recent progress in equal channel angular pressing of magnesium alloys starting from Segal's idea to advancements till date – A review Author: S. Prithivirajan, Gajanan M. Naik, S. Narendranath, Vijay Desai Volume: International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture 6(1), 82 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.08.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.08.001
Title: High temperature tensile deformation in single-pass friction stirred AZ31 alloy Author: Deepika Harwani, Vishvesh Badheka, Vivek Patel Volume: International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture 6(1), 140 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.003
Title: Investigation the structure and properties of deformed semi-finished products produced from chips of Al–Mg alloys system alloyed with scandium Author: Sergey Borisovich Sidelnikov, Nikolay Nikolaevich Zagirov, Yuri Nikolaevich Loginov, Ekaterina Sergeevna Lopatina, Denis Sergeevich Voroshilov, Sergey Nikolaevich Lezhnev, Evgeniy Vladimirovich Ivanov, Anastasiya Sergeevna Saparova, Marina Vladimirovna Voroshilova, Vladimir Ivanovich Ber, Elena Vasilyevna Feskova, Elena Vladimirovna Zagirova Volume: International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture 6(1), 46 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.005 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlmm.2022.09.005
Journal of Magnesium and Alloys
Title: Editorial Board Volume: Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 10(8), ii (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2213-9567(22)00193-100193-1) DOI: 10.1016/S2213-9567(22)00193-100193-1)
Title: Surface modification of magnesium alloys using thermal and solid-state cold spray processes: Challenges and latest progresses Author: Mohammadreza Daroonparvar, Hamid Reza Bakhsheshi-Rad, Abbas Saberi, Mahmood Razzaghi, Ashish K Kasar, Seeram Ramakrishna, Pradeep L. Menezes, Manoranjan Misra, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, Safian Sharif, Filippo Berto Volume: Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 10(8), 2025 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.jma.2022.07.012 DOI: 10.1016/j.jma.2022.07.012
Title: The mechanisms of grain growth of Mg alloys: A review Author: Qinghua Chen, Ruinan Chen, Jian Su, Qingsong He, Bin Tan, Chao Xu, Xu Huang, Qingwei Dai, Jian Lu Volume: Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 10(9), 2384 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.jma.2022.09.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.jma.2022.09.001
Title: A review of effective strides in amelioration of the biocompatibility of PEO coatings on Mg alloys Author: Arash Fattah-alhosseini, Razieh Chaharmahali, Kazem Babaei, Meisam Nouri, Mohsen K. Keshavarz, Mosab Kaseem Volume: Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 10(9), 2354 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.jma.2022.09.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.jma.2022.09.002
Title: Mechanical properties and failure mechanisms of Mg-Zn-Y alloys with different extrusion ratio and LPSO volume fraction Volume: Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 10(8), 2158 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.jma.2022.02.004 DOI: 10.1016/j.jma.2022.02.004
Title: Quantitative study on the tension-compression yield asymmetry of a Mg-3Al-1Zn alloy with bimodal texture components Volume: Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 10(6), 1680 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.jma.2022.03.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.jma.2022.03.002
Materials Science for Energy Technologies
Title: Gold nanomaterials – The golden approach from synthesis to applications Author: Homa Hassan, Pradakshina Sharma, Mohd. Rahil Hasan, Shiwani Singh, Deepanshi Thakur, Jagriti Narang Volume: Materials Science for Energy Technologies 5(0), 375 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.004 DOI: 10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.004
Title: A simple energy efficient sol-gel combustion production of strontium orthosilicate and its biomedical study Author: Sivasankar Koppala, Budigi Lokesh, Ramdas Balan, Shiny Punalur John, Jonnagaddala Harathi, Sathishkumar Munusamy, Parasuraman Karthikeyan, Nagarajan Padmavathy, Lei Xu, Sasikumar Swamiappan Volume: Materials Science for Energy Technologies 5(0), 366 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.003
Title: Influence of aluminum ion on the structural, optical, and electrical properties of CuO thin films for the PN-Junction diode application Author: N. Jhansi, D. Balasubramanian, R. Raman, K. Mohanraj Volume: Materials Science for Energy Technologies 5(0), 433 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.005 DOI: 10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.005
Title: Direct cascade hydrogenation of biorenewable levulinic acid to valeric acid biofuel additives over metal (M = Nb, Ti, and Zr) supported SBA-15 catalysts Author: Ramyakrishna Pothu, Harisekhar Mitta, Rajender Boddula, Putrakumar Balla, Raveendra Gundeboyina, Vijayanand Perugopu, Jianmin Ma Volume: Materials Science for Energy Technologies 5(0), 391 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.006 DOI: 10.1016/j.mset.2022.09.006
Title: Influences of hydrothermal carbonization on phosphorus availability of swine manure-derived hydrochar: Insights into reaction time and temperature Author: Jiaxin Yu, Shiyu Xie, Tao Zhang Volume: Materials Science for Energy Technologies 5(0), 416 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.mset.2022.10.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.mset.2022.10.001
Title: Investigation on the properties of vanadium doping WO3 nanostructures by hydrothermal method Author: S. Karthikeyan, M. Selvapandiyan, P. Sasikumar, M. Parthibavaraman, S. Nithiyanantham, V.T. Srisuvetha Volume: Materials Science for Energy Technologies 5(0), 411 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.mset.2022.10.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.mset.2022.10.002
Title: Electrochemical performance of H+ implantation intercalate with LiCo3O4 thin film and its applications Author: A. Sudha, N.M.I. Alhaji, A. Ayeshamariam, M. Ismail Fathima, M. Sivabharathy, K. Kaviyarasu Volume: Materials Science for Energy Technologies 5(0), 424 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.mset.2022.10.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.mset.2022.10.003
Biology
Non-coding RNA ResearchTitle: The role of long non-coding RNA ANRIL in the development of atherosclerosis Author: Ilgiz Gareev, Valentin Kudriashov, Albert Sufianov, Sema Begliarzade, Tatiana Ilyasova, Yanchao Liang, Ozal Beylerli Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 7(4), 212 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.002
Title: Exosomal miRNA-155 and miRNA-146a are promising prognostic biomarkers of the severity of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome Author: Irina Gilyazova, Elizaveta Ivanova, Valentin Pavlov, Guzel Khasanova, Aliya Khasanova, Adel Izmailov, Dilara Asadullina, Gulshat Gilyazova, Guoqing Wang, Ilgiz Gareev, Ozal Beylerli, Elza Khusnutdinova Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 8(1), 75 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.10.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.10.003
Title: MicroRNAs as potential diagnostic markers of glial brain tumors Author: Albert Sufianov, Sema Begliarzade, Tatiana Ilyasova, Xun Xu, Ozal Beylerli Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 7(4), 242 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.008 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.008
Title: Expression of MiRNA-29b and MiRNA-31 and their diagnostic and prognostic values in Egyptian females with breast cancer Author: Mona Ahmed Abbas, Ibrahim El Tantawy El Sayed, Azza Mohamed Kamel Abdu-Allah, Abul Kalam, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Omar A. Al-Hartomy, Maha Salah Abd El-rahman Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 7(4), 248 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.003
Title: Circulation microRNA expression profiles in patients with complete responses to chemoradiotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma Author: Tirta Wardana, Siti Nur Chasanah, Risky Oktriani, Cita Herawati, Sumadi Lukman Anwar, Indwiani Astuti, Sofia Mubarika Haryana Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 7(4), 233 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.005 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.005
Title: Immunologic response in patients with polytrauma Author: Ural Mukhametov, Sergey Lyulin, Dmitry Borzunov, Tatiana Ilyasova, Ilgiz Gareev, Albert Sufianov Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 8(1), 8 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.007 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.007
Title: A perspective to weaponize microRNAs against lung cancer Author: Dhanashree Murugan, Loganathan Rangasamy Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 8(1), 18 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.009 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.009
Title: The potential of miR-153 as aggressive prostate cancer biomarker Author: Irina Gilyazova, Elizaveta Ivanova, Mikhail Sinelnikov, Valentin Pavlov, Elza Khusnutdinova, Ilgiz Gareev, Aferin Beilerli, Ludmila Mikhaleva, Yanchao Liang Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 8(1), 53 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.10.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.10.002
Title: Circular RNAs: New layer of complexity evading breast cancer heterogeneity Author: Alyaa Dawoud, Zeina Ihab Zakaria, Hannah Hisham Rashwan, Maria Braoudaki, Rana A. Youness Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 8(1), 60 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.011 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.09.011
Title: Comprehensive landscape and future perspectives of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in colorectal cancer (CRC): Based on a bibliometric analysis Author: Jia He, Wenhan Wu Volume: Non-coding RNA Research 8(1), 33 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.10.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2022.10.001
Medicine
Clinical eHealthTitle: Development of digital intervention through a mobile phone application as an adjunctive treatment for bipolar disorder: MyBee project Author: Caroline Encinas Audibert, Adna de Moura Fereli Reis, Robson Zazula, Regina Célia Bueno Rezende Machado, Suzana Maria Menezes Guariente, Sandra Odebrecht Vargas Nunes Volume: Clinical eHealth 5(0), 72 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.ceh.2022.09.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceh.2022.09.001
Global Health Journal
Title: Editorial Board Volume: Global Health Journal 6(3), ii (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2414-6447(22)00059-800059-8) DOI: 10.1016/S2414-6447(22)00059-800059-8)
Infectious Disease Modelling
Title: Modelling the potential influence of human migration and two strains on Ebola virus disease dynamics Author: Sylvie Diane Djiomba Njankou, Farai Nyabadza Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 645 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.10.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.10.002
Title: Evaluation of TB elimination strategies in Canadian Inuit populations: Nunavut as a case study Author: Elaheh Abdollahi, Yoav Keynan, Patrick Foucault, Jason Brophy, Holden Sheffield, Seyed M. Moghadas Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 698 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.07.005 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.07.005
Title: The impact factors of the risk index and diffusive dynamics of a SIS free boundary model Author: Yachun Tong, Inkyung Ahn, Zhigui Lin Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 605 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.003
Title: Effectivity and efficacy probiotics for Bacterial Vaginosis treatments: Meta-analysis Author: Sri Adila Nurainiwati, Mochammad Ma'roef, Dwi Nurwulan Pravitasari, Probo Yudha Pratama Putra Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 597 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.001
Title: Mathematical modeling of the dynamics of COVID-19 variants of concern: Asymptotic and finite-time perspectives Author: Adriana-Stefania Ciupeanu, Marie Varughese, Weston C. Roda, Donglin Han, Qun Cheng, Michael Y. Li Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 581 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.08.004 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.08.004
Title: Epidemic time series similarity is related to geographic distance and age structure Author: Tad A. Dallas, Grant Foster, Robert L. Richards, Bret D. Elderd Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 690 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.002
Title: Effect of awareness, quarantine and vaccination as control strategies on COVID-19 with Co-morbidity and Re-infection Author: Amit Kumar Saha, Shikha Saha, Chandra Nath Podder Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 660 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.004 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.09.004
Title: The impact of age structure and vaccine prioritization on COVID-19 in West Africa Author: Hemaho B. Taboe, Michael Asare-Baah, Afsana Yesmin, Calistus N. Ngonghala Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 709 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.08.006 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.08.006
Title: Assessing the effectiveness of quarantine measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile using Bayesian structural time series models Author: Claudia Barría-Sandoval, Guillermo Ferreira, Bernardo Lagos, Carola Montecino Bacigalupo Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 625 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.08.007 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.08.007
Title: Competitive exclusion of two viral strains of COVID-19 Author: Wendi Wang Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(4), 637 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.10.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.10.001
Title: Mathematics of a single-locus model for assessing the impacts of pyrethroid resistance and temperature on population abundance of malaria mosquitoes Volume: Infectious Disease Modelling 7(3), 277 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.idm.2022.05.007 DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.05.007
Liver Research
Title: The S267F variant of sodium taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide is strongly associated with resistance to chronic hepatitis B and high level of serum total bile acids Author: Jiancheng Huang, Mingkuan Su, Hongbin Chen, Shuiqing Wu, Zongyun Chen Volume: Liver Research 6(3), 186 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.livres.2022.08.005 DOI: 10.1016/j.livres.2022.08.005
Title: Editorial Board Volume: Liver Research 6(3), ii (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2542-5684(22)00056-300056-3) DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5684(22)00056-300056-3)
Title: Exhaled volatile organic compounds for cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis Author: Nanicha Siriwong, Thanikan Sukaram, Rossarin Tansawat, Terapap Apiparakoon, Thodsawit Tiyarattanachai, Sanparith Marukatat, Rungsun Rerknimitr, Roongruedee Chaiteerakij Volume: Liver Research 6(3), 191 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.livres.2022.09.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.livres.2022.09.001
Computer Science/ Electronic / Communication / AI
SCIENCE CHINA Information SciencesTitle: Robust adaptive time-varying region tracking control of multi-robot systems Author: Junjie FU, Yuezu LV, Wenwu YU Volume: SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences 66(5), 159202 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1007/s11432-020-3299-2 DOI: 10.1007/s11432-020-3299-2
Title: Improving Performance of Robots using Human-inspired Approaches: A Survey Author: Qiao Hong, Zhong Shanlin, Chen Ziyu, Wang Hongze Volume: SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1007/s11432-022-3606-1 DOI: 10.1007/s11432-022-3606-1
Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry and EcotoxicologyTitle: Multi-application fennel-based composites for the adsorption of Cr(VI) ions from water and control of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus Author: N. Mabungela, N.D. Shooto, E.D. Dikio, S.J. Modise, M.E. Monapathi, F.M. Mtunzi, T. Xaba, E.B. Naidoo Volume: Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 4(0), 171 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.enceco.2022.09.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.enceco.2022.09.001
Title: Organophosphate pesticide residues in environmental and biological matrices: Occurrence, distribution and potential remedial approaches Author: Odunayo T. Ore, Adedapo O. Adeola, Ajibola A. Bayode, Demilade T. Adedipe, Philiswa N. Nomngongo Volume: Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 5(0), 9 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.004 DOI: 10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.004
Title: Antibiotic-resistant microbial populations in urban receiving waters and wastewaters from Tanzania Author: Asha Shabani Ripanda, Mwemezi J. Rwiza, Elias Charles Nyanza, Hossein Miraji, Numfor Linda Bih, Alexanda Mzula, Elisa Mwega, Karoli N. Njau, Said Ali Hamad Vuai, Revocatus L. Machunda Volume: Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 5(0), 1 (2023) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.003 DOI: 10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.003
Title: Ecotoxicological risk assessment of heavy metals from remediated oil spill site in Niger Delta region, Nigeria Author: Omobolaji O. Afolabi, Olufemi M. Adesope Volume: Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 4(0), 186 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.001
Title: The effects of air pollution, meteorological parameters, and climate change on COVID-19 comorbidity and health disparities: A systematic review Author: Paul D. Juarez, Aramandla Ramesh, Darryl B. Hood, Donald J. Alcendor, R. Burciaga Valdez, Mounika P. Aramandla, Mohammad Tabatabai, Patricia Matthews-Juarez, Michael A. Langston, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Amruta Nori-Sarma, Wansoo Im, Charles C. Mouton Volume: Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 4(0), 194 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.enceco.2022.10.002
Engineering
Defence TechnologyTitle: IFC - Editorial Board Volume: Defence Technology 18(9), IFC (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2214-9147(22)00177-500177-5) DOI: 10.1016/S2214-9147(22)00177-500177-5)
Title: IFC - Editorial Board Volume: Defence Technology 18(10), IFC (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/S2214-9147(22)00204-500204-5) DOI: 10.1016/S2214-9147(22)00204-500204-5)
Global Energy Interconnection
Title: A distributed VSG control method for a battery energy storage system with a cascaded H-bridge in a grid-connected mode Author: Yichi Cai, Donglian Qi Volume: Global Energy Interconnection 5(4), 343 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.001 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.001
Title: Generation of typical operation curves for hydrogen storage applied to the wind power fluctuation smoothing mode Author: Yanhui Xu, Yijia Xu, Yan Huang Volume: Global Energy Interconnection 5(4), 353 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.002 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.002
Title: Factors affecting economics of clean energy transmission channel in Southeast Asia Author: Yuan Gao, Han Jiang, Fangzheng Peng, Yi Gao, Yan Zhang, Xunpeng Shi Volume: Global Energy Interconnection 5(4), 385 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.005 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.005
Title: Optimal design of linear switched reluctance motor for sea wave power generation Author: Zhao Xin, Dongqin Xiong, Teng Yun, Zhe Chen, Guangwei Liu Volume: Global Energy Interconnection 5(4), 434 (2022) URL: https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.009 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloei.2022.08.009
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