John Hamm
This book was a page turner for sure! The characters came to life in a pseudo comic book style that I absolutely loved. They also developed really nicely as the book went on. Vicious was packed full of action, twists and turns, and intriguing powers. All of which had me glued to my Kindle!
While I really enjoyed this book there is something that is preventing me from a 5 star rating that I won't go into detail about as it would be a spoiler.
4.5 stars rounded up.
This Nebula finalist focuses a lot on communication, philosophy, and biosemiotics. It was a fascinating speculative fiction looking into the near future. The quotes at the beginning of the chapters (which come from the main character's book) were profound and were a big takeaway for me. I enjoyed the sections dealing with the octopuses, and appreciated that the author made the hacking storyline not attempt to explain the semantics of it all but rather focus on character development. My only minor gripe is the parts with action were not as engaging as I would have liked, but that could have just been me.
This book was outstanding! Very thought provoking, and impressively researched.
I really liked the very technical parts that went over some origins of words and/or their meanings lost in translation. The story itself was very captivating and I loved the various character's points of views on colonialism. Even the ones who shared viewpoints held them in various shades.
This had been on my ‘To Read' shelf for a while and was a fantastic birthday gift from my sister :)
A very well written book that manages to jump around the time frames of two neighboring families and tie them all together. To me, this was a book about some of the trials families may face and how those who are affected carry this with them in their lives. The writing in this book was extremely good, the characters were profound, and it moved my emotions quite a bit.
I do wish the book was longer, but that is not to say that it did not feel complete. This was a great surprise for being just a semi-impulse grab from the library after seeing it in the new releases section.
(Also I just realized the title I picked says Audiobook, but I read the printed version) :)
A nice short read that is somewhat of a modern darker fairy-tale. I very much liked that the main character had extensive knowledge of the tales she found herself in. It definitely added to the book to learn some of the fairy-tale backstories and some that are not quite as popular. The book felt complete on its own but is a series and I am excited to read the next one!
Overall I liked what the author was trying to do in highlighting important issues that either are a problem or could become a bigger problem in our society. The book is definitely better than average in that regard. However as a whole the characters, plot, and way the story was told did not feel spectacular.
It was however a very believable dystopian novel and those dystopian aspects of the book are very good but the actual book as a whole for me was not as strong.
My favorite book of 2022 so far. I would even say it's one of the better books that I've ever read.
This book is jam packed with fully fleshed characters that leave a lasting image. There are quite a bit of issues it addresses and a lot of deep themes.
While I could go on about all the great things of this book I will just say one thing that I personally liked/found especially interesting. The way that everything Demon loved about Dori embodied what Demon's mom was like on their best day together seemed to me like a cool underlying detail.
