2019 Releases Revisited #1

i adored this book this book is everything i want out of a science fiction novel and i loved i love the characters i love the story i love the world building everything about language and communication and memory and how empires function it was amazing i loved it

i thoroughly enjoyed this and i probably need to buy a copy of it because i might have to reread it by the time that part two comes around as i recall i've never been so fascinated by lengthy explanations of trade and commerce routes and how that could upend you know the political situation in the universe like it was really interesting

i have very fond memories of this book and i would most highly recommend it for kind of the mystery like i love mystery plots and science fiction this is not surprising but there's also a really big like identity and mental health aspect of the story which i thought was really important and well done and not predictable

unfortunately this book is not my favorite thing actually i thought the second half of it was pretty interesting like i got pretty invested in it i thought the ending was good but it failed for me pretty fundamentally because i didn't like the main character

i loved this novella one of the rare things i've requested a review copy of so i could read it in advance

i enjoyed it was a really good story but one that i have not felt compelled to revisit i think i actually got rid of my copy this past year i would still love to read more things by katherine duckett though i think this was very well written and i would definitely recommend it for people who are fans of shakespeare and kind of queer fantasy

you may know that i am a huge fan of anne lucky specifically for her imperial ratchet series as well as for prominence in the same universe i really love her science fiction

i will admit that i have very little memory of this particular book all i remember is that there was a lot of dogger in it and that i liked that

i tried listening to the light brigade on audiobook and it like an hour into i'd felt so deeply upset i just dnf'd it

i had a really good time tracking all the little details and trying to figure it out unfortunately i felt incredibly disconnected from the story and from the action and the characters

this was one of my favorite books in the entire series