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Monstress Vol. 4: The Chosen – Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Posted on 05/11/2019 by Roseanna

Gonna be a short one. Tl;dr version – still amazing, still beautiful, still fascinating. Storywise, I think they’re doing a great job of balancing providing answers and asking more questions. They haven’t got into the soggy middle-ground of keeping on … Continue reading →

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Monstress Vol. 2: The Blood – Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Posted on 29/12/2017 by Roseanna

So you know how sequels often don’t live up to their start books? Yeah, not that. Oh, sorry, I have to keep writing? Fiiiine. What I was really worried about is whether this would feel like filler plot. A necessary … Continue reading →

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Monstress vol. 1 – Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Posted on 14/10/2017 by Roseanna

Another birthday present (yes, I’m taking forever to get through them – I need less of a social life so I can read more books), but also one I’d been meaning to buy myself and read for AGES. And then … Continue reading →

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Death’s End – Cixin Liu

Posted on 13/06/2017 by Roseanna

Finally, we finish The Three-Body Problem series. And thank fuck for that. Because for all this was better than the rampant horrendousness of The Dark Forest, Death’s End is still a shitty, awful, horrible book. There’s misogyny (and gender essentialism) and some really not ok … Continue reading →

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The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu

Posted on 23/05/2017 by Roseanna

It has been nearly a month since my last post. And do you know why that is? Because this book was a SLOG. It was a CHORE. I HATED it. And I still have to* read the sequel for the … Continue reading →

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The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu

Posted on 06/01/2017 by Roseanna

First book of 2017! And, boding well for times ahead, one causing a lot of interesting discussion… so I’m going to struggle to keep this around the 1000 word rough estimate I aim for, but I shall do my best. … Continue reading →

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