Tag: Science Fiction

Audiobook Review: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 22, 2023 | 0 Comments

I have very mixed feelings about this book. For one, it gets pretty fucking weird at one point (actually, it reminded me of the strange and trippy end of Interstellar, but like…on steroids) and I feel like there was too much going on. This book was a very ambitious attempt at a broad opera spanning timelines, a la Cloud Atlas and Sea of Tranquility. Actually, I’d just listened to the latter only about a month before I picked this one […]

ARC Review: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 18, 2023 | 0 Comments

This is a fairly difficult book for me to review, because I absolutely hate that I didn’t love it. This was one of my most anticipated 2023 releases…why, you ask? Sentient. computer-savvy. cats. And that cover?! SIGN ME TF UP. And the cat part of it? Fucking AWESOME. That was by far the selling point of this book for me, and it’s what kept me going when things got rocky. I absolutely ADORED Hera (and Persephone, but we don’t get much of […]

Mini Audio Reviews: Sea of Tranquility, Outsider, Book Thief

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on September 15, 2023 | 0 Comments

Won’t most of us die in fairly unclimactic ways, our passing unremarked by almost everyone, our deaths becoming plot points in the narrative around us? I don’t have a whole lot to say about this book, but between FANTASTIC narration and one of the single most mind blowing twists I’ve ever read, I really enjoyed it! It reminded me a lot of Cloud Atlas, spanning multiple stories across multiple timelines that all interconnect and come together in the end in […]

Audiobook Review: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on August 11, 2023 | 0 Comments

I’m so sad that I didn’t love this book. It’s a parallel world sci-fi, which absolutely should have been my jam; but despite the cool concept and world, there were too many things that annoyed me and completely ruined the enjoyment. First of all, the prose is not great. It’s quite dry and unfeeling, leaving me incredibly detached from the story. (The MC’s apathetic tone did not help with that fact, but I’ll get to that in a moment.) There […]

Audiobook Review: The Will of the Many by James Islington

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on August 7, 2023 | 0 Comments

In the first half, this book really had me. It had a VERY strong Red Rising vibe, and the narrator was amazing, and I was HERE for it. I loved the hierarchy and the world and the idea of Will. However, about halfway through the book, it started losing me. The comparison to Red Rising got stronger and stronger until it was almost uncomfortable how similar they are. Because this book is a straight rip off of Red Rising. And […]

ARC Review: Light Bringer by Pierce Brown

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 10, 2023 | 0 Comments

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE SERIES. DO NOT READ IF YOU AREN’T CAUGHT UP TO THIS BOOK. It also contains spoilers for this book itself, and while those are in spoiler tags, they do not work on the mobile app. So if you’re reading this on mobile, LOOK AWAY CHILD. Light Bringer, a summary: Me: Lysander is a little pixie bitch and I couldn’t possibly hate him more Lysander: Hold my beer Now, on to the […]