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From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
Recommended by @smileybone@todon.eu as a book that's great for readers and...(I forgot what the other things were? But I hear it's a must-read!). Hoping to get my hands on a physical copy, but maybe I'll just end up reading it on my new Kobo Elipsa
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon …
I had selected this to pick up from Book Home, but forgot to drop in on the way back and actually buy it :( anyway, it's definitely on my list for one of these days!
The Obelisk Gate is a 2016 science fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin and the …
Content warning Spoiler for 'The Fifth Season' by N.K. Jemsin
Just finished the second book in this series, and it doesn't disappoint! I was wondering how she'd carry the plot forward given that they'd already revealed the three personalities (Damaya, Syenite, Essun) to be one in the previous book. Well in this one, she's gone with actually showing different perspectives...including an interesting one that I'm not going to reveal 😉
Here's where things actually come together, by the way. In the previous book, it was just following three different people (or what we thought were three different people) through their lives, and incidentally learning about the world on the way. (Like I said earlier, we were reading it to know more about the world but those people were doing it to get their own specific problems sorted). In this one, we're actually following along with the characters and all trying together to find out about the world.
The Obelisk Gate is a 2016 science fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin and the …
Just started this on the train home. Going well so far :D
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes …
Akil recommended this book because it's got two levels: there's the story of the characters themselves and what they're going through, but as you read on you also get to discover more about the world and how it works. It's not only the plot but also this process of discovery that drives the story forward. (Or so I understood, because N.K. Jemsin did the same with The Fifth Season)
The Obelisk Gate is a 2016 science fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin and the …
Just picked up the second of this series from Book Home! I was wondering whether to wait for a second-hand version, but then I thought I'm in the flow so why not :P