- book 2 in the Locked Tomb series The first time you sit down with Harrow the Ninth you will likely become confused, and if you are like me, uncomfortably so. You will spend your effort keeping track of all the mysteries, conspiracies, and tense relationships, and need courage to experience them through our protagonist’s … Continue reading Harrow the Ninth by Tamsin Muir
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Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
The war has begun! After two books of trying to avoid it, one more of trying to prepare for it, humanity and its leaders now have to get it over with, before even more damage is done. In Perhaps the Stars, the rules established in previous books have changed: The world-shaping technologies of instant travel … Continue reading Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published in 1818, has been retold, adapted, parodied, and drawn from a lot since then. The story now lives happily apart from its original pages, transformed into something between pop culture, common knowledge, and modern myth. A book review might sound redundant, or at least a couple of centuries late to the … Continue reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley