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And then on to Children of Memory, which was the one that I liked the least of all three. I thought I found the structure of that one a bit annoying.

Children of Ruin. Slightly less excellent in my view.

the fourth in his very popular Children of Time series which started with the excellent Children of Time and went on to Children of Ruin.

Crash I in particular I absolutely hated.

It reminds me a little bit of, , the Siege of the Burning Grass by, , T. Kingfisher Muhammad which I read last year, maybe the year before, and really enjoyed

I don't have a hardback edition of The Martian and it is a very good book. I mean, it's you can be critical about it from a from a writing point of view and a prose point of view, but as a as an adventure, I really enjoyed it.

The first one was Mercy of Gods, which got a little bit of hate or dislike, I suppose. I liked it well enough.

I hadn't read anything of hers until just this week actually, when I read 381, which was a little bit challenging but certainly very interesting.