I will be the first to admit that when it comes down to sci-fi subgenres, I’m a bit of a noob. I have read some, like dystopian, but I certainly couldn’t name you a whole lot of books in other genres. So as I was researching what I wanted to do for sci-fi month I… Continue reading What is Biopunk?
Only Human is the conclusion to The Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel. A series with an interesting approach to storytelling, through interviews and documents. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the first two, and while I also enjoyed this to a point, in the end it left me feeling a bit meh.
City of Broken Magic. It couldn’t live up to that synopsis but still a decent read.
Another Top Ten Tuesday (as always hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) prompt I am twisting to fit my needs for Sci-Fi Month. Instead of sharing bookish merch I’d like to own (because really, I don’t need to search past links and add more to my wishlist) I am twisting this to items from sci-fi… Continue reading TTT #163 – Five Items from Sci-Fi Settings That I Need
Like I mentioned in my previous book store post, social media can get you to know a lot of things you didn’t previously did. I probably would have never visited Eindhoven hadn’t I heard that the book store Van Piere was there and was fantastic. I’m not going to lie. This is for sure a… Continue reading Book Stores #7 – Van Piere Eindhoven
Book: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey 1) by Arthur C. Clarke Release Date: June 1968 Tags: Sci-Fi / Articial Intelligence / Space Ships / Futurism / History / Technology / Classics On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent… Continue reading Book Review – 2001: A Space Odyssey
The execution lacked a lot in the way the story was told. We initially get a point of view of Mari, the youkai and Taro, the prince. I initially quite liked Taro. He clearly didn’t like what was going on in the palace and how youkai were treated. However at the moment of meeting Mari there is an instalove from his side, and something he has been planning for a while goes right out of the water. After that his point of views solely focus on Mari and I feel like we lost the righteous prince we got the meet in the first couple of chapters. It was a real shame because he could have been a great character. His complete personality change in the last 20% or so was also not that great.
After a few chapters of going back and forth between Mari and Taro point of views, we get the point of view of Akira. I could have honestly done without him. He also has a complete focus on Mari and his chapters were completely boring to read for most of the book. I just didn’t get a real personality from him at all. He was so bland. I also felt that his only reason for getting a point of view was so he could show the youkai resistance. Which he didn’t even care about. It was such a missed opportunity. There were other ways to show the resistance.
The resistance also felt so lackluster. We only saw a few characters but they were going to storm the palace? Yeah, no…
