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infryq

infryq@books.theunseen.city

Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

Bring me all the speculative fiction. Whose stories have I been missing out on?

Rating system calibration:

1 star - not worth reading 2 stars - worth reading, but has major problems 3 stars - satisfying read, may have minor problems. Most books live here. 4 stars - inspiring read, overshadows any issues 5 stars - life-changing read

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Vivian Shaw: Strange Practice (2017, Little, Brown Book Group Limited) 4 stars

"Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well …

Nicely grippy

4 stars

A medical-flavored mystery with a down to earth sense of urban fantasy to it. The descriptions are particularly wonderful and manage to escape getting too florid. Fun magic/infernal system, skillfully revealed. Gentle presence of social anxiety lending depth and comfort to the characters. I wish the recording had a better (or perhaps any) pop filter but that’s not the fault of the text. Excited to see more of the series.

Emily Skrutskie: Bonds of Brass (2020, Del Rey) 3 stars

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and …

Solid until it turned into pureblood rhetoric

2 stars

This was a fun romp, the author clearly proud of their worldbuilding notebook and still learning how to thread it through a narrative, with strong chaos bisexual energy... and then it turned out the whole thing was holding up a blood purity story, and not the kind where anybody knows it's bullshit -- potentially the author included. What a shame.