I stayed up entirely too late finishing this. It was really very hard for me to put down, and that alone earns it the privilege of being bumped up to four stars. I did have some quibbles with it, but in the end they were minor, and I was compelled by the book to finish (always a good sign). Six Wakes, to boil it down, is about six clones on a generation ship who wake up to find that they have all been murdered, and […]
Murderbot strikes again, is even more loveable.
Murderbot <3. I feel like just making that one word and its accompanying symbol my entire review, but that would be doing a disservice to the book and also to anyone potentially reading this review who has not yet let Murderbot into their lives. Murderbot is life. Murderbot is love. Just kidding. If Murderbot saw me talking about Murderbot like this, Murderbot would be appalled. Murderbot is all about not dealing with feelings at all costs. Which is too bad, because as a newly free […]
A Few Too Many Space Bobs
I think it was the title of this thing that caught my attention: We Are Legion [We Are Bob]. It just sounded a little goofy, and as it turns out, you can judge this book by its title. The premise is pretty standard sci-fi: guy at the peak of his career with a great life ahead, decides to get himself cryogenically frozen when he dies, and is almost immediately killed off. He wakes up about a century later to find a very different world than […]
Guys, read this book. I mean it.
So I read this book in almost exactly 24 hours. My book club picked The Unseen World, at my suggestion, and so of course I waited until the last minute to start it. Don’t know why I did that. It was so good. And I never would have picked it up without book club (even though I suggested it), so thank goodness for book clubs. Anyways, I started it yesterday at 10 AM, got through a little over half by bedtime, then woke up early […]