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But Harrow the Ninth also offers fantastically bratty episodes on the parts of various characters; frenzies

Eowyn Ivey is masterful at intertwining fantastical elements with the grounding of the vivid details Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this connections and surprisingly (to Murderbot, if no one else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #offbeat, #uniquePOV, #LGBTQ, #threestarbookreview

The novel's danger, attempted evasion, and daring escape focused largely on logistics, but I am all in for spending time with SecUnit and its dry humor, always and forever. In Platform Decay, we catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot (SecUnit), who in this eighth book in the series is faced with another high-stakes rescue attempt--this time, of its beloved Mensah's family. Then SecUnit, along with its charges, finds itself confronted with an additional time-sensitive side rescue effort, adding challenge to the group's own escape from evil corporation pursuers. The inconvenient "emotion checks" SecUnit has been tasked with exploring allow the reader insight into the grumbly, begrudgingly invested ties it develops with the messy, imperfect humans under its protection. However, they occur so frequently, I found them somewhat jarring, particularly early in the book. I found the frequent focus on logistics and off-screen political and business loyalties a little bit tedious, and I didn't have time to become invested in SecUnit's charges so that their need to find safety felt immediate and compelling (as its original team's would have). While I understand the need to branch out to other characters and storylines, I couldn't help wishing for more significant Mensah-SecUnit page time. And without SecUnit's opportunities for much interaction with ART in this installment of the series, I felt that we missed out on opportunities for some of the best dry humor Wells provides. We got a few beloved Sanctuary Moon references as well as mentions of new media. I adored the scenes in which MurderBot communicated with a preteen and MurderBot's perfectly astute assessment of that media-focused encounter. I love being in SecUnit's deadpan, introverted, always-assessing point of view. One of my favorite elements is SecUnit's constant analysis of escape routes, outlandish or ambitious options of coping with threats, and ability to manipulate technology for knowledge, evasion, and deception. It doesn't ultimately matter what the current danger or mission is; I'm in for all Murderbot Diaries books, forever. I received a prepublication version of this title courtesy of NetGalley and Tor Books. More Murderbot Gems You can click here to find my Bossy reviews of Murderbot books 1 through 3, as well as the sequels Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse. You might also like these other titles that include robots, humans and alien life, and AI.

dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang #fantasyscifi, #historicalfiction, #siblings, #youngadult, #comingofage, #threestarbookreview

captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic Their common disjointedness brings them together, and the mashup of personalities and histories was fantastic

The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique talents, clever minds, a nose for mystery, and next-level bantering capabilities. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick constantly tests her mother's patience, as she's more apt to occupy herself by dismantling a clock or to arrive to tea disheveled, having climbed a nearby tree to ponder life's mysteries, than she is to master the proper curtsy or perfect her needlework, as is becoming to a Victorian-era young lady. So she is horrified to learn that she's been enrolled in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes that the students at Mademoiselle Geraldine's aren't simply learning to dance and dress, but to use household items as weapons, use their feminine wiles to distract, and use diminishing assumptions about young women to craftily spy on unsuspecting victims. Sophronia is an immensely likable, clever, quick study who defies societal expectations. I loved the steampunk aspects--the airship transport, steam-powered mechanical animals, and the mechanical robot servants within the alternate Victorian England setting. I was also intrigued by the crafty finishing school nemesis, the oddball teachers and quirky school leadership, the persistent young people's shifting knowledge base, and the strange mystery at hand. This is the first in the four-book young adult steampunk series Finishing School. I listened to Etiquette & Espionage as an audiobook. More Love for Author Gail Carriger I loved the first book in Gail Carriger's five-book (plus a prequel short) Parasol Protectorate series, Soulless and its sequel, Changeless .

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The dark humor was fantastic.

The best-friendships are fantastic. I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True

The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm

My smart friend Kathy mentioned these books on social media and was correct that these are fantastic. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview

The Scottish speech patterns were fantastic (but what a job for the copy editor!). #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #LGBTQ, #fourstarbookreview

Daisy Jones & the Six  explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

bestselling author haunted by his secret; and I'm reading The Forgotten Kingdom, the second in Signe Pike's fantastic

heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which I thought was a fantastic Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well

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The scything and ties to Russian peasant life were fantastic, as was the years-long evolution of Mike's

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Jimenez inevitably offers great banter and fantastic premises, and she incorporates real-world issues

First: this amazing cover. Second: Starter Villain is playful, darkly funny, big-hearted, and wonderfully weird. I loved it and I can't wait to read more John Scalzi books. “I can’t tell if you’re joking with me,” I said. “I’m mostly joking with you.” “That ‘mostly’ is doing a lot of work in that sentence.” The cover of Starter Villain shows a grumpy-seeming cat's head on a human torso clad in a suit with "Meet the new boss" across the top, so obviously this was going to be a Bossy read. And I love that this is my first review of 2024. Bring on the weird and wonderful books! In Starter Villain, Charlie's a substitute teacher, divorced, struggling emotionally, socially, and financially, and living in a house his half-siblings want to sell. Then he inherits his long-lost uncle's parking-garage empire. Which turns out to be a cover for a vast supervillain business--complete with an evil lair in an island volcano. I held up my hand, and then looked around the room, at the room full of probably-assassins. "Do any of you know my uncle personally?’" No one responded. "How many of you are here to make sure that he’s dead?" All the hands went up. Could this be an unexpected new start that will point Charlie in a productive new direction? The recently deceased Uncle Jake, an old-fashioned villain, made a lot of enemies--and they're ruthless, well-funded, and out for revenge. Charlie will have to quickly get up to speed and figure out friend from foe in order to stay alive. This villain business is more complicated than it seems. There's crossing, double-crossing, a wonderfully savvy and knowledgeable second-in-command, nefarious plots, sentient cats, and more. This was playful, smart, funny, and weird. I loved it, and I can't wait to read more John Scalzi books. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? The premise of this novel calls to my mind another book, which I loved, Natalie Zina Walschots's Hench, as well as loose associations with How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying).

They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story  as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan).

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Although the first section felt manic and uneven as Green hurtled through time, the second point of view offered lovely perspective on human connections and duty to each other. Green is just an ordinary young guy, dancing, drinking, living it up. But something's off: he's started hurtling through time, and he can't stop, which means he can't hold onto relationships or grasp his present before he's off again. Zada is a scientist from the future who becomes aware of Green's problem and seeks to help him. But doing so may require her to jump into Green's timeline, and she knows that there's no assurance she'll ever get back to her own original time again. A meeting of the two characters could alter their lives forever. I had significant difficulty getting through the initial portion of this book. Green's party-guy, train-of-thought-spewing, reactive personality made it tough for me to follow what he was trying to express and tough to care about him as a character. The early scenes felt zany and disjointed, even without the time travel element. I was very close to abandoning the book. But I'm glad I stuck with it. The calm and thoughtful perspective offered by Zada's later point of view made for a far more cohesive story--and that's saying something, as the novel is, after all, a time-jumping frenzy in a futuristic setting. It's unclear whether the book's having been written by two authors accounts for some of this drastic split. Alternative perspectives later in the book (family, friends, and Zada) served up a surprisingly vulnerable, sympathetic Green that was not evident to me in the early portion of the book. The story centers around Green's activities, but because of the shift in point of view away from his own, he largely drops out of the plot and the story takes off without him. The off-screen, forward-thinking future version of Green didn't jibe with the early image of him for me, but his unexpected, spot-on predictions and savvy intuition allow for the resources for the most interesting portion of the story to occur in the future, as a crack team attempts to understand how to send Zada back to meet him in time. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I received a prepublication edition of this title courtesy of NetGalley and John Hunt Publishing: Cosmic Egg Books.

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The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Only a few Antari have been born in a generation, and they have long been the only ones with the power If you've read the Shades of Magic books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased

time while her wife Odette soars high above on the trapeze of their magical circus, the Circus of the Fantasticals with a ringmaster ruling his crew with dark powers--and someone who's after what the Circus of the Fantasticals

She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search

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The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid.

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The diary's author is a Lutheran pastor who met and was witness to the fantastical, frightening, brutal

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extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter, a spunky and fantastic Cosby This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk.

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The dark humor is fantastic.

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. That book introduced the fantastic best-friend character of Felicity "Fizzy" Chen. She decides that she's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and

The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully

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