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R. F. Kuang: The Poppy War (Hardcover, 2018, Harper Voyager)

A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired …

yeah, no

I kind of liked this (as in I would have given it 3 or 4 stars), then I read the bad reviews on goodreads and... (rest of review in reply because I'm going to need a spoiler warning)

commented on Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

Rebecca Roanhorse: Fevered Star (Hardcover, 2022, Gallery / Saga Press)

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying

The great …

reviewed Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #1)

Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Sower (Paperback, 2000, Warner Books)

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …

am I not getting this?

maybe I was expecting too much because I'd heard about it in adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown's podcast and thought this was going to be extremely mind-blowing. I kept expecting the story to go somewhere, to develop in some direction but it just kept being a bleak, lost earth and people trying to just survive on it. seemed to me like the plot just fizzled out.