Blog, Page 18

I enjoyed Damascus Station, but this book didn’t work nearly as well for me. One problem is that the characters just aren’t as interesting; Artemis (Proctor) is a...

The good Very interesting premise: the Vietnam War as seen from the eyes of a North Vietnamese mole who has infiltrated the South Vietnamese army and the...

This book didn’t work for me. I found it relied way too much on a narrator telling you what’s happening rather than showing you what’s happening by having charact...

The good Zoe is a very fun character. Zoe’s relationship with her parents, her friends, and Hickory and Dickory is genuinely touching. There ar...

The good

Entertaining read about WWII and breaking the Enigma cipher. Some interesting characters, a slice of British life during the war, a little bit of clever “hacking,...

This one didn’t work for me at all. It started off super slow, then introduced an interesting character and mystery, but in the end, the mystery was solved with ...

The characters are cute, I appreciate the attempt to create a world (two worlds, actually) where art has practical value, and there’s a big central mystery, but t...

The good An occasional bit of fun dialog and tongue-in-cheek humor. Introduces the backstory for one of the new members of Slough House. T...

What a superb collection of sci-fi short stories. Every single one introduces big, mind-bending ideas that really force you to pause and think. I wish they were l...