Ok so this is the second book of the Passage trilogy. I thought I just made the name of the trilogy up, but then I looked at the title on Amazon (which I copied and pasted into here), and it’s totally called that. Yay me! Like I say in my review title above, the book is more about the people dealing with the twelve “master virals” (I definitely made that title up). The goal of most of the main characters in this book is to […]
Young blood
For a book that features deep space travel and multiple distinct alien races, Ann Leckie’s Provenance is a surprisingly human and even cozy story. A companion work to her stunning Imperial Radch trilogy (more informally referred to as the Ancillary trilogy sometimes), Provenance focuses on smaller stakes — though of course there are intergalactic ramifications. It follows Ingray Aughskold, the adopted daughter of a planetary noble, as she takes a risk to impress her mother and stumbles into a tangle of converging political plots and […]
Lady Bond Hunts Spy Ghosts and Discovers Cthulu May be Real
Make James Bond a married woman and more complex character, allow for a very real afterlife which connects in some ways to the living realm, add an extra double cross and you’ve got Summerland. The premise is super interesting: in the late 1930s there are 2 branches of British spies, one based in the world of the living and one based in the world of the dead, called Summerland. There is massive political intrigue and likely catastrophic conflict brewing between the followers of the Presence […]
Not every story needs a love story
Another book where I appreciated the concept more than the execution. One of my very best friends is a writer (first book being published next spring!!) so this gives me hope because it means that the world of novels still needs talent. Derailed. I may have had some hotel wine. But. This book. Yay? All Our Wrong Todays is a time travel novel that tries to ironically embrace but ultimately can’t get past the fact that the narrator is a massive fuck up who took […]