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Esteban Torres

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Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

Meh with a hint of interesting

can see how this could be a story that people enjoy. It has this over positioning of times, past and present. But the story is so banal for the longest part of the book, then that characters are a caricature of a Young Adult novel and when things get interesting; sadly they turn into the most stereotypical flat character in a book. The book has undertones of a great story. Unfortunately for me and my taste, they developed the boring parts of it

Isabel Ibañez: Where the Library Hides (2024, Hodder & Stoughton)

Where the Library Hides is Isabel Ibañez's stunning conclusion to the story that started in …

What a PITA

After the first book that reads like Dora the Explorer visita Egypt I had to continue with the 2nd one. What a disaster. The characters are flatter than the paper they are written in.

Cliché over cliché and no substance whatsoever.

Still have way to go and I don't know if I'll be able to force myself through it

Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels gradually wreak havoc …

Low 3 stars

Not bad but definitely not great. Mostly the story of a man that never listened and that costed him everything. Then the story of a resilient girl/woman

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2010, Ace Books)

On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female …

Good

For a long perdió of time it felt like this book reads like The Dark Tower. But then it hit me, checked the publishing year; TDT is the one that reads like this

Overall interesting book. Sometimes a lot of made up terminology muddies the story. But definitely worth being called a classic

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2010, Ace Books)

On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female …

For a long perdió of time it felt like this book reads like The Dark Tower. But then it hit me, checked the publishing year; TDT is the one that reads like this

Overall interesting book. Sometimes a lot of made up terminology muddies the story. But definitely worth being called a classic