Weekly Sci Fi Reading Report | August 22nd 2025

And I finished Ashes of Man at the very beginning of this year and did did enjoy it. And there's a there's a bad thing that happens at the end of book five, which I mostly forgotten about. I was reminded of at the very beginning of this one and it came as a bit of a shock.

But otherwise, Cowl I found to be a bit of a jumble. And broadly speaking, I didn't get on with it at all and not helped to be fair to it by a sort of flu enforced break which did break up my flow a little bit.

So overall, I really enjoyed it. It's the first of Tad Thompson's books that I've read and I do have a couple more on my shelf, so I should be getting to those at some point in the not too distant future. I enjoyed it. I recommend it.

It's a slender book, so it's a brief and pretty engaging read. And I really enjoyed being back in the Luna setting and I'm now keen to give the full Luna trilogy a reread.

I found it to be a mess of a book. It's like the bastard love child of Neil Stevenson's Cryptonomicon and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. And I'm afraid that is not a union made in heaven.

I so I didn't dislike to be taught a fortunate but to be candid not a huge amount happens. It's a bit of a travel log if I'm honest um skipping around from one moon to the next and being a brief book. It is only a novela. It didn't linger long enough in any one place to be that interesting for me.