After reading Babel, my short assessment is that it’s a good book, but it’s not a great book.
Tag: fantasy
Book Review: Projections by S.E. Porter
Projections is too long. And the weird thing is, every scene does serve to either reveal something about the characters or advance the story in some way, but it still feels like it drags on.
Book Review: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner scratched my epic fantasy itch while sticking to a more manageable page count, and giving me a more diverse cast of characters than I ever got back in the 90s and early 00s.
Book Review: New Suns 2, Edited by Nisi Shawl
New Suns 2 is the follow-up to New Suns, both books being collections of speculative fiction by authors of color.
Book Review: The Fire Opal Mechanism by Fran Wilde
The problem with this book is the problem that many Tordotcom novellas have: it is too. dang. short. Everything feels rushed.
Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
I’m not going to talk a lot about the details of this book, because that would involve spoiling certain things about the first book, and I’d really like you to consider reading that if you haven’t already.
Book Review: Ascendance of a Bookworm, Part 1, Vol 1 by Miya Kazuki
I chose this book for a very specific book bingo related reason, and if not for that, I would have DNFed it after the first few pages. I hope that this will be the worst book that I read in 2024, and that things will only get better from here.
Book Review: All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows
With this book, Meadows has given us a book that not only explores what it might take to make an arranged, hasty political marriage work while also trying to heal your own individual trauma, but also the “what next” inherent in coming out after a lifetime of being closeted.
Book Review: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The first book I finished reading in 2024 was The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. Surprisingly, this was my first time reading this classic of fantasy fiction. I also have no memory of ever seeing the animated movie. This strikes me as weird because I loved unicorns as a kid and grew up on…
Book Review: Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis
Scales and Sensibility is a regency romance which takes place in an England that will feel very much like the England of most regency romances (which is to say, historically accurate-ish but with a gloss of wishful thinking over everything). The main difference of course, is the presence of dragons.