booksthatburn's Reviews (1.46k)

The Scourge Between Stars

Ness Brown

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

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Just One Damned Thing After Another

Jodi Taylor

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

Has a weird mix of flippancy and casual discussions of violence in a way that was off-putting.

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The Bladed Faith

David Dalglish

DID NOT FINISH: 15%

It’s possible that this would turn out to be foreshadowing the discovery that this guy is bad, but I was offput by a conversation where the fantasy arms dealer CEO explains that it’s fine for him to pay for revolutions with funds gotten from selling arms to the colonizers, thus making more money as they buy more weapons to put down the revolutions he’s funding. Oh also he’s a tragic gay widower whose husband died for one of those revolutions. I’m uninterested in pinkwashing arms dealers who enable colonizers.

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Unholy Land

Lavie Tidhar

DID NOT FINISH: 1%

The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O'Keefe

DID NOT FINISH: 1%

If you take a trans person without any access to transition care and replace them with a copy of their personality in a new, ideal body, you’ve just murdered a trans person to make a cis person with extra steps. No thank you. This immediately threw me out of the story.

A Curse of Roses

Diana Pinguicha

DID NOT FINISH: 7%

I need to not read a book about a fantasy eating disorder.

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Witch Eyes

Scott Tracey

DID NOT FINISH: 26%

Random misogyny towards someone the protagonist has barely interacted with.

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Skin Folk

Nalo Hopkinson

DID NOT FINISH: 26%

I couldn’t handle some specific horror elements.

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The Reunion

M.D. Neu

DID NOT FINISH: 44%

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Light

'Nathan Burgoine

DID NOT FINISH: 67%

Both books I’ve tried by this author have sympathetic/well-meaning cops as characters. I’m uninterested in pinkwashing cooaganda.

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