Weekly Sci Fi Diary | April 18th 2025

I thinkChris Beckett's writing is super accessible. He writes in kind of easy tounderstand sentences but he weaves as I've said many times before apretty complex story from doing that and I really enjoyed my time in this.

Idid find a Vanvot's writing style a little bit dry in this book. In themain, I found I never really got engaged with the story or with the characters tobe honest.

I had fun. It's not a challenging read. I blew throughit pretty quickly. Teenage me, I think, would have had an absolute blast. Andgrumpy old me liked it pretty well as well.

I reallyenjoyed this puzzle box of a book and it reminded me a little bit in itsnarrative structure of How High We Go in the Dark by what's his name?Squoya Nagamatsu. which I didn't enjoy anywhere near as much as this one. but if you enjoy the structure of that and I think you'll enjoy this too.It's really good. I recommend it.

I'm about 25%maybe through on audio book on Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs, which is thesequel to These Burning Stars, which I enjoyed a month or two back again onaudio book.