Gedris employs a wide variety of gorgeous art styles to tell this breathtaking story of love and dreams.

Beautiful and true in every way. I have known many friend-loves, and Sakugawa captures the feeling perfectly.

A classic for very good reason, Watchmen is formative.

Love/hate would be too strong a description, so I say I had a like/dislike relationship with this book. I wanted to read this book based on the orange cover and the promise of a sci fi/horror story, so I didn't realize just how much of a chosen one narrative this book/series was going to be. I started reading this book when I did because I wanted to see Justin Cronin at the National Book Festival, but I didn't have that much time to read all the books I wanted to before the festival, and since The Passage wasn't totally holding my attention, I was only like a third or less of the way through it before the festival arrived. I decided to see his talk anyway and I'm glad I did because Justin Cronin was one of the most engaging speakers I saw, and his stories about writing the book totally recharged my excitement to read more of it. The experience of reading the book continued through many ups and downs as I progressed from there. I realized at some point that whenever the characters were traveling I lost interest until almost exactly when they got to wherever their next destination was, which is something I guess. I'm definitely going to read the next one because I very much want to know how it all turns out, and will just hope the eye rolling will be at a minimum.

Super fun read - I never felt restless as I quickly consumed this book. That said, it felt a little lighter than I tend to want in stories, the mysteries that seem to exist in the premise were not highlighted as prominently as the story of Roen getting his life together. Some tropes came in to play that were irritating but didn't strongly detract from my enjoyment of the book (mainly love triangle nonsense.) I look forward to seeing where the series continues, and am hoping for more alien conflict and less human romance.

I wish I'd read 'I've Got You Under My Skin' before this because there were a bunch of spoilers for that book, but the Alafair Burke connection was what got me interested, and I'm glad I did. This book was fun to read and kept me guessing, while I grew to care deeply about a number of the characters. Excited to read more from the series! (Starting with the first one)

This novella blew me away. I didn't totally get the first Okorafor book I read (Lagoon) but this story was like all the things I loved about it but less magical realism (maybe? or maybe it was just different and didn't bother me, heh) and also I really related to the protagonist. I highly recommend reading this.