This is an amazing set of short stories. All of them were very interesting in very different ways. I would be up for reading a novel set in each of these worlds. I think this is a must read for the book club.
I enjoyed the way the story unfolded in this book. All the characters with their lives before and after, slowly converging on what was left of civilization. I like that each of them holds on to what came before in their own way, with the worst way being hardcore religion. The book doesn’t show the downfall and afterwards as I would expect it to play out, but it is still really interesting how things do happen.
I really am enjoying this series, and the books are starting to get into an overall arc it seems. The first three were more or less stand alones. I also love the jumping back in forth in time that the series does. This is one of the few authors who has really pulled that off well. It allows the characters that get killed off in the first book to stick around for the rest of the series, and they continue to develop.
This book was pretty interesting, although I do think that string theory needs some kind of testable hypothesis. That the theory works great mathematically is fine and all, but it needs some real world grounding. I liked the explanation and examples for the folded dimensions. This puts electromagnetism in a new light for me.
I really liked this book. The way the future city is set up is very interesting, with little to no governmental oversight. I really liked that they got along without it, but that they needed some power structures to take its place. Those power structures weren’t that believable, but the characters were very understandable. The traitor being a worthless gardener who nobody knew was also great. The story was a fantastic one and this author is one I’ll look for in the future.
I liked the book. I was hoping to go read the next one, but it isn’t out yet. The author, Tanya Huff has some other books that I might go for in the meantime.
This book was way too much of a boy fantasy. The world was interesting, and the politics of the situations was very well done. The main character was just overpowered, over-cocky, and too much of a boyhood fantasy for me to really enjoy the book for its good qualities. I don’t think I’ll continue this series unless I need something really simple and predictable.
This is the first in a long series of book updates that I’ve been neglecting since March, sorry for this block, but I want to keep them separate for tracking purposes
I thought this book was interesting, and the magic systems were pretty neat. The big problems I had with it was a lot of ex-machina with things working out too perfectly in many circumstances. The love parts of the book were a bit absurd as well.
I really liked this book. It had a lot less angst than the previous two. There was also a lot of resolution to the stories, as opposed to open endedness from the first two in the series. There was a bit of a vague ending with the final bad guy, but it might be more clear for me exactly what was going on if I were to re-read it a time or two. I’m not going to write more as to not spoil it.
It's an Exciting World 