Monday, July 4, 2016
Book Review :: Memories of Ice (Malazan #3)
Memories of Ice by Steven EriksonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I cried when I finished this book.
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Book Review: Half The World
Half the World by Joe AbercrombieMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is a good read even if you've not read the first book. Some old characters are there, lot of new characters are there, the battles are there, the fast talking, sharp-tongued father yarvi is there, but what's really missing is the world-weary point of view of Abercrombie that's all over in everything else he writes.
Yes, this YA, it can't have all the glorious sex and violence but this is also Joe holding back all the good stuff that makes his books the gut-punches that they are. Despite that, the undercurrents of classic Abercrombie are there. The pitched battles, the violence (albeit held back), the word wrangling, the situations, the accidents, the moments when you go fuck yeah!, this book is quite a ride.
What else, really looking forward to Half A War now just so Joe can get back to writing about the first law world.
What I'd find really interesting if Abercrombie did a Richard K. Morgan and wrote some balls out cyberpunk Sci-Fi.
Now THAT'S something I'd put my money on.
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Book Review :: Deadhouse Gates (Malazan #2)
Deadhouse Gates by Steven EriksonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Anything less than five stars for a book with such immense scope would be a travesty.
That said, it's not a book for everyone. It's a difficult book to read, and even more difficult to understand in the greater scheme of things. And anyway, the first three books in this particular series are not as well written as the seven others. I have one more so-so book to go through.
Maybe it will get better after that. I hope so.
Reading such a book is a tiring experience. Your brain gets so tired that you're unable to think anything else. When you think about the events in the book and their timelines, your whole sense of time gets warped, and even if it's fiction, you can't help but think in those massive timeframes.
It can get painful. There is absolutely zero hand-holding in Malazan books and you're mostly thrown in the middle of things to figure them out on your own.
So, if you like your fiction easy, pain-free, and light, give Malazan a skip, but if you like to torture yourself a bit, dig in.
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Book Review :: Nemesis Games (Expanse #5)
Nemesis Games by James S.A. CoreyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Holden and gang are amazing as always, and personally, i feel this is the strongest Expanse series book so far. The last one was okay, readable, but this one opens up a lot of further avenues for storytelling and awesomness in the Expanse universe. I really loved that we got to see the viewpoint chapters of the whole team and for that alone it was a much tighter book than Cibola Burn.
When you read a book like this, you can't help falling a little bit in love with the characters, who are not perfect, they all have their flaws and they're all very very HUMAN. This is what sets this book series apart from a wide range of space opera, the human element is strong here, it makes the books fun, it makes the characters super-relatable and it sparks hope in your heart that no matter how bad things get, you can always count on friends and family, and it'll all work out when we work together.
Right now, really looking forward to the next book and I hope they explore the threads they've unwounded in this book. Specially, a view point of Filip, because there is much more to that character than the book explored.
Over all, five star book. If you've read the previous Expanse series books, don't miss this one.
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Book Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Red Rising by Pierce BrownMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I've not read the hunger games or any of its sequels or any of the derivative works that have spun from the concept of the everyman taking on the high and mighty. The books got better somewhere in the middle, but on the whole it was the same tired concept of fighting the powers that be by becoming one of them.
I hated that the author was holding back on the violence and there was so much telling in the book. "X stabbed Y in the stomach" why not, "the sword made a sick, squelchy sound as it entered X's stomach and the tip of the blade exited from his back like an angry demon's talon." (Yeah, now you know why I can't be a writer.)
All said and done, books like this one give me hope that I can do better.
I feel like I wasted my time in reading this book. Should have read half a war instead. Why are there so many books with teenagers fighting adults and higher powers. Why? Why can't YA be anything different? Why do oppressed teenagers have to fight everything in sight. Same ol' song and dance.
Fuck it.
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Book Review: Liar's Key by Mark Lawrence
The Liar's Key by Mark LawrenceMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Can we give six stars to a book?
Or ten?
I wish goodreads added that feature for certain books. Like, once a year, a book so amazing comes along that you want to spend your once a year ten stars on that book. We're only half way through the year, but i don't think I'll read any rollercoaster ride better than Liar's Key.
The book is long. And delicious to read. The wit, the violence, the fun, the quips, the poetry of words, the backstabbing, the bravery, the friendship, the hatred, it's all there. And then there is some more.
I won't go into the plot and story of the book, but Jalan and Snorri are out on an adventure again, looking to open gate to death's domain! And they have the key to do it! It's a ride, this book and i am definitely looking forward to the next one.
There is nothing that I didn't love about this book. Everything was in the right place, in the right amount, it was scary, it was beautiful, it was funny, and it was just perfect.
Also, quotes like this one
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The best time to kick a man is when he is down
-- Prince Jalan of the Red March
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