Esteban Torres rated The Grace of Kings: 4 stars

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A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a …
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Collection of imaginative science fiction.
Stories included are:
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
Very interesting book. Proof that you can tell a romantic story without making it cheesy.
The topic of magic is way more explored than in the other two, but reads and plays well with the story.
I would rate them in reverse, this being the best of the three and the first published being the worst. How things interconnect With each other almost make the existence of the first one to make sense.
From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.Find your …
This is what the first book should have been; and the first shouldn't even be used as fuel for a fire.
More magical, characters way less flat and you get to bond with them and grow attached while they grow as characters.
Enough mysticism to keep you interested but not much to make it pure phantasy.
I really wanted to like this book; despite that it was pretty dull.
I guess I was expecting more magic and less generic-drama style of writing :/
The book is mostly just love and despair stories and no real twists.
I'm already knee deep on this and I'm starting the 2nd book but mostly out of wanting to finish than because I feel involved with the story.
I could do with just reading a 2 paragraphs summary of the book TBQF
Not particularly mind blowing but it contains a few nuggets of information on how to navigate this career path, making it a must read for Individual Contributors going the Management route.
I particularly enjoyed the Team Lead definitions and role responsibilities as well as how nicely the author manages to clearly differentiate each role from the previous one.
When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking …