Reviews and Comments

I was so reluctant to start a book that doesn't center on the Ramtop witches. Mainly because I didn't want to read too much about anyone who's not Granny Weatherwax. But I'm glad I still read this, I like it a lot in so many different ways, it feels like a really well rounded story!

I love Ratbag as a cat name.

I loved this one! In a lot of ways. The plural stuff, and Granny Weatherwax being herself, especially how she insists she is helping the priest when he is keeping her upright, and the vampire stuff. It's all very nice and satisfying.

Yeah no I think I won't finish this. Now the supernatural component was revealed, but the actual scary thing is still this horribly abusive family. Which is a good move I think! But it's also really draining to read.

I started it very reluctantly, guessing correctly that it would be very different from Certain Dark Things. I like it so far... but for my current mood there's too many scary and upsetting people and not enough scary and upsetting other things.

I really liked this one! There were some things again where I got the "well now you're just reinforcing oppressive ideas" feel that I got a lot in the last few witches books that I read, but way way way less of this, and I think the main fat character's story was a great example of how to actually make fun of oppressive ideology, instead of those oppressed by it.

This one was messy! I liked some of it (the relationships, the light hearted (although still melodramatic) tone, the boat, the dragons), some of it seemed sketchy (the ethnography-style descriptions of people they meet), and some I think is plain shitty (blindness as a metaphor for naive evil). All in all I had fun, this story is all over the place in so many ways.

So I think I'm going to like this, with some exceptions like I think there might be 0 women on this ship.

But uhm...... they just..... they're on a planet that they know is dangerous in some unknown way. And that's why most of the people aren't allowed off the ship yet. And the few that go outside for some measurements? They go "no protective suits, oxygen mask is enough". And then they measure what the atmosphere is made from and if it's radioactive. I mean, all the measurements are fine. But still. This seems like really bad strategy to me!

It's again this super confusing mix of concepts that I understand and concepts that I'm quite sure I don't. This time with a planet! And another perspective that I feel the same about! Soooo it's a lot of fun..... in a really distanced dry way.

I finished this a long time ago and looked it a lot

This is really really cool so far

Es ist das erste Was-ist-was-Buch, das ich im neuen Stil ohne die Fragenkästchen lese. Finde es hat ein bisschen unnötiges Blabla, aber immer noch genug Infos. Text vor Foto-Hintergrund find ich halt unnötig anstrengend zu lesen. Ich hab sicher einige Sachen gelernt.

Dieses Buch ist so viel weniger aufregend als sein Titel. Nach dem Erste-Hilfe-Teil bin ich nun im Katastrophen-Teil. Und der hat tatsächlich ein paar spannende Fakten aus den letzten 20 Jahren, die ich nicht aus 20 Jahre alten Kinderbüchern bekommen kann. Aber leider. Ich hör das Hörbuch. Und. Der Tonfall in dem es gelesen wird macht mich fertig! Es ist dieser "wir reden über etwas sehr bedauerliches"-Tonfall, der klingt als wär er keine drei Schritte vom Weinen entfernt, den Leute aber einfach nur verwenden, um klarzustellen, dass sie die Tragik der Ereignisse begriffen haben. Ich halt den schon in echt nicht gut aus, aber da sind es wenigstens üblicherweise nur wenige Sätze. Ein ganzes Buch so? Ich bin mir ehrlich nicht sicher, ob ich das pack. (Angebracht wäre meiner Meinung nach übrigens großteils ein nerdiger "gut zu wissen!"-Tonfall.)

Yep it's actually pretty interesting