galacticvampire's Reviews (366)

Definitely enjoyed this one more on reread. Being confused is part of the magic of this series but I do think it hinders the experience a little when you get THAT lost, even when it makes the reread so sweet. I also got super attached to their little family dear god crying over Phyrra, she is the one who should be called We Suffer and We Suffer.

This really is a series about healing. It's slower, more realistic, but holy shit if it isn't lovely. 

Jean's growth from the last book to this one is incredible, and we are finally getting more development from the rest of the cast. His relationship with Cat is definitely a highlight, and I'm loving to see the dynamics between the Trojans. And Exy games!! They are super fun and impressively easy to follow considering that the sport doesn't even exist in the first place.

Jeremy... is still very evasive, but now we have his fucked up past and only need *him* to realise how fucked up he still is over it all. Truly a man denying his way through being fine (not). Can't wait for the moment he eventually crashes out.

Any time the Foxes were even mentioned they stole the scene, I *loved* seeing their antics from an outsider's perspective and their different relationships towards Jean were soo bittersweet.

Overall I'm really excited to see what Nora has in store for us next!

I didn't have many expectations towards this book given it's not only an audio-novella extra to the middle grade trilogy, but also an audible exclusive. But how pleasantly surprised I was!

This book is fun and light while providing great emotional beats and probably the best disability representation we've had in Star Wars in quite a while. It seems to be also building up to an important detail I found missing in Into the Light...

This is still a junior novel, but it was a welcome addition to the storyline. 

This is the perfect book for all the Andor fans. It's a character-heavy political essay, where the action didn't captivate me nearly as much as certain conversations.

We start of just a couple weeks into the new Empire, and I absolutely loved seeing the inner workings of it all. It felt very realistic without being too complex for traders who are not familiar with government work.

My issue with this book was that there were just too many random subplots. The spy stuff could've been more interesting if it didn't stretch so much across the book, and honestly I don't know why we wasted so much time with Sinjur.

Mon's plot was definitely my favourite, as you can see the cracks that come in full bloom in Andor starting to appear. She is badass, even while still trying to change the system from within and holding off becoming "too radical".

Bail came off as exhausting and stubborn, which honestly made me like him even more. He's definitely the person who raised Leia.

Saw Guerrera was so annoying, and the fact that we know he was right about a lot makes it even *more* annoying. 

Overall, I'm really excited for the rest of the trilogy 

The voice acting is incredible and this book is even better on reread, since now I actually understand what's happening. Although I still miss Gideon, I think now this is my favourite in the series so far.

It does what it promises—covering the history of earth under a climate lenses— but it goes about that in a very weird way.

This felt more like a academic textbook than a published book. While very detailed, the editing did not make it easy to follow, and many chapters felt repetitive while framing the ideas as passing notes. It was just too much history to cover in one volume, and in the end I felt like I learned more fun facts and general trivia than formed a better understanding of the topic.

The idea themselves are interesting and the writing is not really bad, but the end result is very dense and tiring and I was constantly checking to see how close I was to finishing it.

The pacing reeerally slowed down with this one... Thought the ending is very cool and the character arcs quite beautiful, I felt like I wasn't really immersed in the story.

A lot of it has to do with the fact that everyone involved is a pawn, and that the big antagonists were somewhat "unknowable", but overall I feel like this is a series that should be read back-to-back.

After slowly rising the stakes with each novel, Fugitive Telemetry slows down with a localized murder mystery. As always, murderbot is hilariously relatable and playing detective gives it a different approach to problems. It's certainly less impactful than the rest of the series but still super fun.

What a weird little book! Right up my alley!

We follow Rosemary, a new professor at the local university, as she acclimates to a new town and meets the cliché manic pixie dream girl Ash at a farmer's market. What then follows is a bubbling cozy small-town romance until things slowly... start to get weird.

My only problem is that it was *too* slow for me. Even for a short book, I caught myself wanting to skip ahead and get to the juicy parts. This was marketed as horror and it's literally the first sentence in the synopsis! I was getting tired of musings about plant pots and soap scents.

But when it finally got weird? Damn, it was incredible. The author didn't shy away from the grotesque or the unsettling, which really helped suspend the disbelief in some more questionable parts.

Dawson is incredible with descriptions. From atmospheres to smells to textures, the story really came alive. She got me craving a cupcake for a whole day!

I'm really glad this is a novella, because I think trying to stretch the story would've messed up the pacing even more.

The voice acting is incredible and this book is even better on reread, since now I actually understand what's happening.