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AND IF I CRIED THATS BETWEEN ME AND MY IPAD.

I want to know why this book has a 3.5 rating on here. Like, explain? Is it coz Nevare is a realistic privileged teen boy with realistic privileged teen boy views and opinions? My boy is trying his best lol :')

As always, Robin Hobbs writing is impeccable. Never let them guess you're next move, queen.

It was fun, will read the next one.

Holy shit.

This book was recommended to me by my friend who is a physics teacher and it was such a challenge but so so so impressive and fun. Imagine a 400 page novel just covers only the inciting incident of a larger story. Couple that with so much technical science talk that will definitely go over the head of your average reader. Sounds like a slog, doesn't it? This is exactly why I'm so impressed and delighted by The Three Body Project. It's absolutely fantastic despite all of that and I cannot wait to pick up the second book.

I can only imagine how much more I would've enjoyed this book if I were a person of science lmao.

Anyway, if you love sci-fi you HAVE TO read this book. It's gonna be adapted into a Netflix series and if they do it right its gonna be huge.

These thousand page high fantasy classics (TOMES) are always so fucking rewarding, how could I ever want to read anything else?

I loved it. I wish I read it sooner. I wanted to dive into the next book right away but I also feel like I need a breather.

I'm a very character motivated reader and I got attached immediately to Kaladin and Shallan. I feel like this series has the potential to destroy me and that is exciting.

These thousand page high fantasy classics (TOMES) are always so fucking rewarding, how could I ever want to read anything else?

I loved it. I wish I read it sooner. I wanted to dive into the next book right away but I also feel like I need a breather.

I'm a very character motivated reader and I got attached immediately to Kaladin and Shallan. I feel like this series has the potential to destroy me and that is exciting.

It's really on me when I read the full content warning, see my biggest trigger, and read it anyway.

I'm not, like, smart.

4.5 stars!

I think my love for this one stems from how similar Ged is to Fitzchivalry Farseer in the later Realm of the Elderlings books

4.5, so far my least favourite of all the Foundation Books (I have not read the prequels).

Very different from the rest of the series that I have read. Where all the others books each span lifetimes and follow the point of view of several different groups of people, Foundation and Earth sticks with Golan Trevize and his crew through the entirety of the novel. The other books were a fast paced political drama spanning centuries full of intrigue and subterfuge, this book was a long meandering (non derogatory) quest for a mysterious world. The Seldon Plan, that had been the focus of the series thus far is now, in this book, thrown to the side.

While I still enjoyed it immensely, it did feel slower and contained far less spectacle. I did miss being mind blown every 100 pages or so.

I don't know if I would say it's the most satisfying ending to the Foundation series but it definitely was still a lot of fun. The last part of the book was very engaging and I flew through it. I also won't be forgetting any time soon the full body shiver I got when I read one of the characters mention Alpha Centauri in their long quest to find the mythical motherworld, Earth.

I loved it.

I feel like I need to reiterate, of all book genres fantasy has always and will always ranked first for me and among it's subgenres nautical/pirate fantasy is definitely top 3.

I liked the first Tide Child book, The Bone Ships, a lot. I did, however, have a rocky start in the beginning of the first book and continuing the series had not been a priority. It was only because I got a good deal on the second book that I decided to pick it back up and, my god, what a fantastic stroke of luck.

I liked The Bone Ships. I loved Call of The Bone Ships. Adored it even. Now I cannot wait to get my hands on the last book. Putting in into my cart as I type.

2.5 stars

So messy. Ineffective. Not bad enough for a 2 star rating though.

3 starts that dropped to 2.5 with that ending.

I just could not find it in me to care for any of these characters. Even ending in a cliffhanger could not bother me enough to pick up the second book. Maybe I will if I ever get that bored.

It was just trying too hard to be cool but it keeps missing and missing and missing.

Insidious. Pay heed to the trigger warnings.

The thing is, it's hard to say how exaggerated the evil in this book is because I can see it happen irl. We live in a cartoon world.

That being said, great read. Hard to put down even when so heavy.

Exultant.

The first time I cried reading a non-fiction.

I first discovered emo in 2006 when I was in the 6th grade (10 years old) with MCRs Teenagers and Good Charlottes The River. It irreparably altered my brain chemistry in 2007 when I first saw pictures of Panic! in either AP or Rock Sound or Kerrang. In 2008 I had the roughest year of my early teens and these bands were all I had (along with the Percy Jackson series.)

Now I'm 27 and this all feels like a lifetime ago. With age comes perspective, with age these idols become people. This book let me get a glimpse of my heroes growing up in a way their albums and performances only alluded to. I'm grateful.

That being said, if Ryan Ross ever releases new music I will cry scream throw up and maybe even pass away.

3.5, good read, fantastic closing line

Just fucking fantastic, as always. 10s all around. The Foundation Saga maintains it's position as my fave scifi series of all time, I fear.

Ever since I read the Narnia series in middle school I've loved it but it's undeniable that there has always been an undercurrent (sometimes overt) racism, sexism, and overall xenophobia. We can excuse it and say that it was a product of it's time but it's just as valid to view it from a modern lens and say that it was problematic.

This book, the conclusion to the series, is the most egregious offender lmao. Not gonna list all instances coz I think it would be a fun offensive scavenger hunt for people who do decide to read it, but damn it wasn't good.

Hopefully Greta Gerwigs adaptation of the material can somehow improve upon it (I don't think this is a big ask lol).

I think this one was one of my faves when I was reading the series for the first time though I always missed the Pevensies. While all the Narnia books are pretty religious, I feel like this one was one of the MORE religious ones lol. Still great the second time around.

I have a confession: I fucking love werewolf stories. I love them, I eat them up. I have a spotify playlist dedicated to werewolf music (what? No I don't? Or do I?)

Mongrels was FANTASTIC. I have never even heard about it before picking it up at (hilariously) the Big Bad Wolf book sale after passing by it over and over again. Some books just call out to you, you know? Some books are meant for you to read.

People say warewolves are animals, but they're wrong. We're so much worse. Were people, but with claws, with teeth, with lungs that can go for two days, legs that can eat up counties.

EDIT: APPARENTLY I HAVE READ ANOTHER BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR, NO WONDER THE WRITING STYLE SEEMS SO FAMILIAR.

This is the first time I've ever read an unfinished book. I didn't realise how difficult it would be to follow a story knowing that there is no satisfying ending(or any kind of for that matter) waiting for me. This is also my first John M. Ford book and now you can count me as one of the grieving and heartbroken.

The writing and wold-building was sprawling and beautiful, the characters real and complex. That being said, it was a bit slow placed for me, packed with social mores that I had to make a conscious effort to decipher. I don't know how much of the unfinished manuscript the editors left untouched (or if they left it completely as is) but I can sense that within it is a grand universe that I only got the tiniest glimpse of.

Additionally, the introduction by Neil Gaiman was truly gorgeous. It made me miss a person I've never personally known. We can only hope and pray that in our lifetime we can forge a friendship like theirs.

Rest in Peace, John M. Ford.

I FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON IT. A SIGNED COPY TOO

This was one of my fave of the Narnia books as a kid and it felt so pleasingly nostalgic returning to it.

The writing in this book is so so beautiful.

Just when I thought I was hot shit for figuring out the exact location of the Second Foundation before they revealed it they knocked me over the head by revealing the identity of the First Speaker. Fantastic. Jaw dropped.

R. F. Kuang played me like a fidle but damn if she didn't make fucking good music.

Unrepentant
Vicious
Unhinged

All words to describe Juniper Song Hayward and the book she inhabits alike.

Let this review be my personal love letter to REBECCA F. KUANG. I think I've been in love with her since I read The Poppy War in 2020 and I am gobsmacked by everything about her.

She is an author of strong and unwavering principles somehow without being self-righteous. Confident and self aware and painfully in touch with the cultural zeitgeist.

She has such a strong grasp on story beats. Tell me how I start the book ROOTING for the downfall of the protagonist but when the thing I want most to happen finally happens I felt almost crushed?

Here are 3 things I know about her writing:
1. Her protagonists are not heroes, often they do things that some would say are villainous (looking at you Runin, my love.)
2. Her books will not end in a whimper but with a bang. Not just a regular bang too, a catastrophic one.
3. She is good and she is getting better.

My heart is racing as I type these words. The grip this lady has on me. I have made the executive decision to go stupid.

Holy shit I'm exhausted.

Day after edit: I only just processed my feelings. I loved this book. Absolutely fantastic. War is horrible, war is a tragedy. I don't know if I have the energy to read the second book but this one alone was beautiful. My heart aches.