4

Characters:
Mark Watney, astronaut, botanist, mechanical engineer, on Mars
NASA Crew on Earth
Hermes Crew in Space

Themes: survival under extreme circumstances, isolation/ loneliness, guilt, despair, hunger

Cover:
Dust jacket: colour gradient, orange -> red -> black
Book: black

Author: never read before

Setting: Mars, Space, NASA headquarters

POV: log entries (Mark), 3rd person

Liked: humor, perspective, characters, plot
Did not like: pace, scientific explanations where a bit hard to follow for me especially in english

I don't really know what to say.
I think there should be no problem with this kind of incest as long as they don't deliberately plan on making children. I mean if they both want it and love each other why criminalize them. As long as it is not rape there is no reason to act so extremely. I think I have heard of several cases where Brothers and Sisters love each other and live in a relationship. I don't know, other than the fact that there should be no physical offspring, why can't a brother and a sister love each other? Who would be in a position to force them apart? There are a lot of countries where incest is not a crime: Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Brasil, and several other Latin-American states.

I have heard of a case here in Germany which resulted in a debate whether it is right to criminalize this. There is still no final result. One party wants to legalize consented incest and the other doesn't. Well, in this case, they have 3 children and I understand the repulsion: every child, of course, having mental and physical disabilities. I wish they had adopted and saved children. But can we really decide any of this for them?...

I'm just so heartbroken now and I just can't... This book just leaves me wondering if the world is still not far enough?...

4

Characters:
Lady Jane Grey, reads many books and loves them more than anything, Edwards cousin, married to Gifford, Queen of England for short time,

Eðian (ferret)

King Edward Tudor, King of England, 16 years old, dying

(poisoned)

,

Eðian (kestrel)

Lord Gifford Dudley, called G, can not control his Eðian form (chestnut steed) always turns at sunrise into a horse

Themes: history how it should have ended, some people transform into animals, conspiracy, love, monarchy, arranged marriage, conflict, loss

Cover:
Dust jacket: portrait of a woman, dominant pink lettering with white annotations
Book: blueish purple with little golden horse

Authors: never read before, want to read more

Sequels: #2 My Plain Jane (Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte) #3 My Calamity Jane

Setting: 1554 England

POV: three perspectives

Liked: enjoyable turn on historical events, plot, characters, creativity
Did not like: pace (sometimes a bit slow)

6 (Favorite)

Characters:
Scarlett, main character, livelong dream of going to Caraval because of her grandma, soon to be married to a man she never met but frequently writes to, naive
Donnatella/Tella, dreams of getting rid of abusive father, cunning, sharp
Julian,

Legends brother, actor in Caraval

Themes: sisterhood, abuse, mystery, circus-like game, what is real and what is illusion, love, trust, death

Cover:
Dust jacket: midnight blue colour with dark red pattern and beautiful white Lettering
Book: blue

Author: never read before, want to read more

Sequels: #2 Untitled

Setting: special island in victorian setting

POV: 3rd person

Liked: writing, plot, plot-twists, characters, ending, creativity
Did not like: main character was sometimes a bit too naive

5

Characters:
Hanna Donnelly, knows how to fight, keeps a journal with drawings, daughter of the captain
Nik Malikov, member of a drug gang, drug dealer
AIDAN, Artificial Intelligence Defence Analytics Network, damaged during fight on Karenza

Themes: love, loss, trust, a zombie-like parasite,

Cover:
Dust jacket: partly see through, colourful
Book: white, looks like a document highlighted with text markers, written on and censored

Authors: read the first book in trilogy

Sequels: #3 Untitled

Setting: 2575 on board of the space station Heimdall

POV: log entries, surveillance footage, chat logs, journal pages, video journal

Liked: premise, writing, characters, romance, perspective, plot, plot-twists, pace, connection to first book
Did not like: /