Susanna

Not a bad installment in the series. Too much Icove nonsense, but at least there's no home decorating.

Another excellent book by Ann Leckie. Unlike Provenance, which can be read independent of the Ancillary trilogy (though it is set in the same universe), this one needs to be read after those three, or I suspect it would not make much sense.

A solid read, though perhaps not quite as good as the first, The Aeronaut's Windlass.

It's Sam Spade in ancient Rome, and it's a fun, wild ride. Not perhaps quite as fond of this one as of the first one, but a solid read.

This is, at its heart, Lord Peter Wimsey fan fiction. However, as I too love Peter, I'm fine with it. Interesting magical system.

Suffers from "second book of a trilogy" syndrome, with a good bit of "more scenes with people we saw earlier."

Not bad. Interior decorating kept to a minimum, which I guess is all we can hope for these days.

Dr. John Dee, secret agent man, is fairly amusing, but I'm finding the portrayal of Elizabeth I somewhat iffy.

I think I'm just too old for this book. Perhaps as a teen I'd have been surprised by the ending.

Fun read as a stand alone, but it could also totally work as the first book in a series. I'd probably read a sequel.

Interesting novel, and a story that is, I think, impossible to tell with only one narrator. 25 years ago the author would probably have gone with 3rd person, but since this is the era of multiple narrators being far more prevalent than they used to be, multiple narrators it is. At least they possess very different voices. But there are too many of them, and the story is unnecessarily complicated.

At least one species of alien is suitably alien, however, and not just "humans but X."

I was amused by just how much NC comes up, for a novel that's set in space.

Excellent follow-up to a fine first book in the series.

An extremely interesting novel, with a twist on the traditional storyline: Cromwell (the traditional heavy or villain) is our sympathetic narrator. It also features a *nasty* portrait of Sir Thomas More.

An interesting question is if Cromwell here is an "unreliable narrator" or not.

Note: "He" is almost always Cromwell himself, but occasionally it's someone else, so do read carefully.

I may be in that small category of people who saw the 1984 movie before reading the book. I don't recommend this, actually.

Decent novel; the movie is more of a cultural heavy hitter.

A scary and staggering achievement.

I have never thought much of this novel - having it assigned three times in high school undoubtedly did not help.

Review would have been at least 4 stars if rated when I first read it, which is when it came out.

Easily Heinlein's best known novel, but not his best (for my money, that's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress).

Fun, though (appropriately, considering the source material) a bit frenetic. Same universe as her Lady Astronaut series, but none of those characters appear here.

Just too many narrators.