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Miranda Mundt: Muted No rating

It has been thirteen years since the mysterious fire at the Severin family manor that …

Very obviously a webcomic only loosely adapted to a serialized format. Pacing suffers, but it was alright.

Tasha Suri: Isle in the Silver Sea (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Orbit)

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a …

Really excellent! I was a little skeptical going in, because I'm not a huge fan of the knights + dragons + witches kind of fantasy, and I'm certainly not a fan of romance plots, but it's just an excellently written book. The magic system is unique and serves the themes of the book beautifully, and the world building is captivating. It runs a little lengthy, but that can be forgiven. I think anyone interested in designing magic systems or fantasy worlds should be taking note.

Lucie Bryon: Thieves (2022, NoBrow) No rating

Um... What happened last night? Ella wakes on the morning after a house party at …

I forgot to mark this as finished! It's really good! If you liked Roaming, I'd recommend this

Elly Blue: This Is Your Bike on Plants (2024, Microcosm Publishing) No rating

The revolution will be green, growing, and non-motorized When you plant the seeds of bicycle …

They kinda sniped me with that subject. Book made specifically to get me

is this the first time im reading a solarpunk book on books.solarpunk.moe?

Ken Liu: All That We See or Seem (2025, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers) No rating

Award­-winning author Ken Liu returns with his first scifi thriller in a brand-new series following …

This didn't really connect with me, to be honest. I often found that the rules and tools that characters resolved challenges with felt unclear, or they'd resolve a puzzle / clue in a way that just didn't feel right. It ends up with the characters not really feeling as clever as the book wants you to believe that they are. Basically I had trouble keeping up keyfabe.

It's also a little hard to avoid the fact that the author is really really insistent that the AI that all the characters make use of (and which the main character specializes in) is a direct descendant of LLMs. Repeatedly. And in ways you can't really ignore. But also rarely actually addresses what the consequences of this might look like in any manor other than offhand.

There's definitely still some good parts, and several scenes really are clever, but I just …

Margaret Killjoy, Jonas Goonface: Escape from Incel Island (Paperback, 2023, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness)

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any …

I went into this expecting goofy comedy dunking on incels (and was looking forward to it), but was delighted to find fleshed out characters and nuance?? and also goofy comedy dunking on incels.

Recommended for almost anybody tbh. It's a short novel and it's engaging right from the start. A delightful experience.