Interesting premise but fails to deliver
An interesting premise and alternate world but ultimately this is used to deliver a ho-hum story of star-crossed love. Disappointing.
The change of pace in the second, flash-back part; followed by the change in narrator for the third made the book feel even more disjointed.
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Paraic rated Shadow Captain: 4 stars
Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds
Bosa Sennen was a scourge of merchants and traders alike. A pirate who struck from the darkness, showed no mercy, …
Paraic rated Harbinger of the Storm: 4 stars
Paraic rated The House of Shattered Wings: 3 stars
The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
Paris has survived the Great Houses War – just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out …
Sirens by Joseph Knox
"The breathtakingly propulsive and stunningly assured debut thriller, perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane A …
Paraic reviewed The binding by Bridget Collins
Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin …
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2 stars
Paraic rated The Soldier: 3 stars
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Paraic rated The Ninth Rain: 4 stars
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has …
Paraic rated Ancients of days: 3 stars
Paraic rated Voyage of the Sable Keech: 3 stars
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Paraic rated The Tea Master and the Detective: 3 stars
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful …
Brass Man by Neal L. Asher
Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, …
Paraic rated Dead Men's Boots: 4 stars
Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the …