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majkia
Babylon's Ashes | James S A Corey
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My favorite of the series. All the elements come together in a terrific space opera. Great characters, twists and turns, complex plot, and of course terrific world building.

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2h
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majkia
Light Chaser | Peter F. Hamilton, Gareth L. Powell

I've been distracted with family stuff and what's going on in the US so I really didn't give this book the attention it deserved. Still enjoyed it though.

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Robotswithpersonality
The Last Emperox | John Scalzi
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Ouch, Scalzi! Epic, but somewhat painful ending to a finely wrought trilogy. You win on all the feels fronts; I laughed, I cheered, I sighed in frustrate despair and I really, really cried. I get the choices made, and there's no way the ending would have had the impact it did without them. I can't even say it doesn't have a fairly happy ending, because in a lot of ways, it ended the best way it could. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Cardenia making the choice, being imbued with that power in her new state and what she could do as a result...I'm not a fan of martyr narratives, but you go into this trilogy knowing that things are going very bad, and inso far as an empire and this particular guild/monopoly/nobility means a massive power imbalance, and then everything you learn about the Rupture, things have been bad for centuries. 2w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Cardenia was strong enough to do the what she could to change things for the better for the future. I'm so glad she had the time with Marce, which of course makes the ending hurt more! 😭 On a more gleefuly badassl note; Kiva Lagos' arc in direct contradiction to Nadashe Nohemapetan's is glorious: “Bitch, you're in my spot“ 😆 And the fact that she has Senia means one love story remains less tragic, for which I am grateful. 2w
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 Stellar character work as always, the reveal about Rachela, and the snippets of Tomas Chenevert's redemption arc just add more awesome. Scalzi remains one of my favourite authors, and I'm happy he's still got backlist (and hopefully more front list in future!) for me to investigate. 2w
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Robotswithpersonality
The Last Emperox | John Scalzi
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Kiva, my beloved. No one employs the word 'fuck', or does the exact opposite of mincing words, quite like you. 😍

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TheAromaofBooks
Eclipse the Moon: A Novel | Jessie Mihalik
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I really enjoyed the middle book of the Starlight's Shadow trilogy. If you want romance with a scifi setting, Mihalik is a great pick. Fluffy, but there is some action, too. In this series, the setting is a few years after a war has finally ended. It seems like someone is trying to eradicate the uneasy truce. This crew of people from both sides of the war are working together to prevent it... all while falling in love haha

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Robotswithpersonality
The Last Emperox | John Scalzi
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A compilation of sass: in which Count Claremont is so done with your shit, Ghreni. 😒🙄😏

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Robotswithpersonality
The Last Emperox | John Scalzi
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Aaannnnd the award for best book dedication goes to...🏆😁

Texreader Yes that‘s excellent 1mo
julesG Good one! 1mo
Cuilin I‘ve never had a book dedicated to me before. 🤗 1mo
dabbe 🤩😂🤩 1mo
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Ddzmini
Empire of Silence | Christopher Ruocchio
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I have read quite a lot of books this was long-winded it could have been shorter and still had been a great read… I liked it but it won‘t get into my top 10 reads

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TheAromaofBooks
Hunt the Stars | Jessie Mihalik
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I really enjoyed another trilogy by this author that I read last year. These are what I think of as sci-fi lite. They're set in space, we're zipping around the spaceships, but these aren't super science-y haha It's more about the romance, and I'm cool with that. I really liked the way these two crews, from opposite sides of a recently-ended war, had to get over their suspicions and work together. The pacing was a little a slow in spots, but ⬇

OriginalCyn620 🖤🖤🖤 1mo
Texreader Sci fi lite! Perfect! 1mo
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