Tag: scifi
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Review: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
4 stars **I received an Audio Review Copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Ruthanna Emrys presents her newest scifi novel, A Half-Built Garden. Readers follow Judy as she accidentally becomes the human who engages in first contact with two alien species. The aliens have said they have…
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Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating : 3.5 Blake Crouch returns with another scifi thriller, Upgrade. Readers follow Logan, a geneticist by education in a near-future where no private industry geneticists are allowed. Logan’s mother was a geneticist as well, and her actions…
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Review: Vows of Empire by Emily Skrutskie
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Emily Skrutskie completes the Bloodright Trilogy with Vows of Empire. This book picks up shortly after the cliffhanger ending of book two, and any real discussion of the plot will undoubtedly spoil the first two books. Suffice…
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Review: Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Kathryn Harlan presents Fruiting Bodies, a short story anthology that seems to defy any genre other than to classify it as speculative. There are some stories than lean into scifi, fantasy, or horror, but there is also…
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Review: Cold the Night Fast the Wolves by Meg Long
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Meg Long’s Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves follows the story of Sena. Sena has made her way in the world alone since the death of her mothers in what amounts to the biggest sled dog…
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Review: Oaths of Legacy by Emily Skrutskie
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Emily Skrutskie returns with the second installment in the Bloodright Trilogy, Oaths of Legacy. Readers follow Gal in the aftermath of the end of book one, Bonds of Brass. This second book picks up very shortly after…
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Review: Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Wab Kinew brings a young adult light scifi with Walking in Two Worlds. Readers follow Bugz, a power player in a digital world who has a lot of self-doubt in the real world. Kinew draws upon Anishinaabe…
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Review: The Past is Red by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audiobook ARC from the publisher through NetGalley.** Actual rating: 3.5 Catherynne Valente reworks the short story “The Future Is Blue” into the novella The Past is Red. Valente lends her unique style and imagination to climate science fiction with this newest work. Tetley lives in Garbagetown, a city that floats along…
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Review: Venom Lethal Protector by James R Tuck
**I received an audiobook galley from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars James R Tuck adds to the novels of the Marvel universe with Venom: Lethal Protector. Tuck essentially novelizes the comic by the same name and narrator David Bendena lends voice to antihero Venom. Overall, I enjoyed this audiobook.…
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Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 4.5 Andy Weir returns with his newest space adventure in Project Hail Mary. This time, Earth is under threat from a space algae that has infected the sun, causing it to lose energy. Junior high school science teacher…
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