Peter S

This was an interesting one. There were a lot of really cool scenes, but it also felt like it took forever to get to them. Lots of ruminating on this or that, describing a lot of things that didn't seem to really matter that much. 

I was very skeptical at first, but it really grew on me quickly. The audio book is especially fun, because it's fully cast with a wide variety of voices one for each character. The humor starts off a little cringe, but evens out quickly, and the characters are fun to love. Looking forward to the next one! 

This was a really fun book. I'm sure I just wasn't paying close enough attention, but a few things about the world didn't seem properly fleshed out, or some characters motivations didn't make a ton of sense. Never the less, the main cast was very endearing and it felt like a fun romp. 

This was an excellent read! Not at all what I was expecting, but very original, and keeps you on your toes. 

Really interesting, I enjoyed a large majority of it, but it dragged in some areas. 

Excellent read. Nice slice of life, with an array of lovely characters that you're constantly rooting for despite their flaws. 

Great story! Love seeing all of the extra lore of the Halo universe. 

Very good! Super creepy vibes, and captivating premise for the horror elements. Loved the historical references to colonial Mexico, and the vivid details. 

Loved all of the extra bits they added from the game. Very good! 

Very good! A really satisfying end to the series. Feels a lot less YA than the first one, but it might just have been me getting accustomed to the style by that point. 

This was really interesting, had a lot of really cool moments, and the ideas presented were really good for pondering. Maybe it's because the structure is different compared to more western stories, it felt like our meandered around. The ending was decent, but I'm still not really sure how I feel about it. 

Very fun! A little predictable, but still a fun read, and the characters are likeable. Definitely will pick up the next one to finish up the story. 

This was a really fun one. Not difficult or hugely thought provoking, but a fun read you can kill in a couple of days.

The death scenes are very descriptive, but nothing overly gorey. 

Such, fun book. I'd watched the movie with my mom when I was a kid, and thought it was great, and the story is largely the same, but there's some ambiguities that are spelled out, and the story seems much more streamlined. Both are enjoyable. 

That's definitely a thing I've read now. It kept me engaged by just the slew of atrocities one right after the other, but it definitely felt like a PETA ad taken story form. 

Update: after reading around, I definitely feel like I missed a lot of characterization of the protag. Going back and looking at how he approaches situations, makes you project your own humanity onto him, where that was never actually the case. I bought it hook, line, and sinker. 

This was a really interesting one. The beginning drags on a little bit, but I love this deeply alien atmosphere of the labyrinth, and experiencing it through his eyes. 

This was a lot of fun, it takes very familiar situations that people might find themselves in (planning for a wedding, and everyone and their mother has an opinion about how you should do it) and adds a strange twist to it (How many goats is too many goats to sacrifice?). I was particularly impressed by the short story told in the form of a limerick.

Definitely different than how I remember it, but not bad. The audiobook was a great experience, made keeping the characters separate easier, but I still had to look them up once or twice. Then again, this took me forever to finish!

Really well written, the prose is gorgeous!

Fantastic. Great characters, great story, science was so cool!

What an excellent book! I love the concept of multiverses of self, where you can play out the different choices that you make. It starts pretty heavy, but I really enjoyed everything about this story.

One of my favorite little fantasy series. Having been a while since I'd read it, I forgot how well written as an impetuous youth Garion is.

That was excellent! I might need to read it again to pick up things I missed along the way, I read it so quickly.

Had a hard time with the first half, but I think I wasn't on the right frame of mind for it. Once I approached it at not another scifi pulp, it started to click a bit more and I appreciated it for the view of humanity or was meant to be.

Excellent! I love her writing, and while I may not have the same tastes, I love the philosophy that you should unabashedly love whatever brings you joy. There is no good media, or bad media, ultimately we're all decaying flesh prisons, and however we choose to silence the existential wailing into the void is fine.