Date Read: July 21 Author: Jane Harper Genre: Mystery Rating: 5/5 Set in the middle of the Australian outback, where many live over six hours from the nearest town, a family suffers a tragedy and finds that they may not know each other as well as they thought… and their isolation means that there aren’tContinue reading “The Lost Man”
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Record of a Spaceborn Few
Date Read: July 21 Author: Becky Chambers Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet orbits an alien star. Humanity might have been accepted into the galactic community, but the culture on board the Exodus Fleet remains foreign to most of the community. A disaster rocks the fleet,Continue reading “Record of a Spaceborn Few”
A Closed and Common Orbit
Date Read: July 21 Author: Becky Chambers Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 Locelace might have started out as an AI on a ship, but when she wakes up in a new body she has to learn a whole new woay of living. Along the way she becomes friends with Pepper, an engineer dedicated to helpingContinue reading “A Closed and Common Orbit”
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Date Read: July 20 Author: Becky Chambers Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 Rosemary joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer in order to get away from everything she’s ever known on Mars. She doesn’t count on fitting in more than she expected, or on the crew being offered the job of a lifetime. The LongContinue reading “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet”
Lost Gods
Date Read: July 19 Author: Micah Yongo Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Neythan has been raised to be a member of a brotherhood of assassins alongside four others his age. When Neythan is framed for murdering his best friend, he finds himself on the run from the very people he was raised with. Can Neythan findContinue reading “Lost Gods”
Finna
Date Read: July 18 Author: Nino Cipri Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 When a wormhole opens up in an IKEA-like store and an elderly customer wanders through, it’s up to two minimum-wage workers to go into the multiverse and find her. In infinite dimensions, all things are possible. Getting lost for lack of a betterContinue reading “Finna”
The Mercies
Date Read: July 16 Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 5/5 In Norway, on Christmas Eve, 1617, all the men of Vardø drown in a sudden storm. The women who are left behind try to make a new life for themselves, only to be interrupted by the arrival of Absalom Cornet from Scotland,Continue reading “The Mercies”
The Only Good Indians
Date Read: July 14 Author: Stephen Graham Jones Genre: Horror Rating: 5/5 Four American Indian men find themselves struggling for their lives after a hunting incident years earlier, in their youth. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough: it is creepy, well-written, and kept me up for a long time after I finished reading it.Continue reading “The Only Good Indians”
Unorthodox
Date Read: July 12 Author: Deborah Feldman Genre: Autobiography Rating: 5/5 Born into the strictly religious sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up surrounded by rules and customs from what she could wear to whom she was allowed to speak to. After marrying and giving birth to a son as a teenager, Deborah decidesContinue reading “Unorthodox”
Stormsong
Date Read: July 8 Author: C.L. Polk Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 It’s only been days since Grace helped her brother undo the atrocity which powered their nation. Now she finds herself trying to save her nation, which is entering winter with no power and not enough Stormsingers to stop the storms on the horizon. IContinue reading “Stormsong”
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 