Very much enjoyed this. The After the War world is being shaped by multiple authors and seeing what each adds is fascinating
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dht6000 finished reading Salvation's Fire by Justina Robson
dht6000 finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Brilliant. Really liked this
dht6000 finished reading The Humans by Matt Haig
Very good, not really sci-fi but enjoyed it after being a bit suspicious of how it was going at the start
dht6000 finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity …
Fantastic, really enjoy Andy Weir’s books and this one is great. I’ve seen some reviews about a lack of character development but it’s just too good a story to worry about that 😊
dht6000 finished reading The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
Good, but odd. Not sure if that’s the original story or a consequence of the translation though.
dht6000 stopped reading Never: A Novel by Ken Follett
Another abandoned book. I’ve enjoyed others by him but could not get into this one
dht6000 finished reading The King of Torts by John Grisham
Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with …
Abandoned. God knows why I thought it was worth starting!
dht6000 rated The Outsider: 4 stars
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Outsider (2018) is a horror novel by the American author Stephen King. The novel was published by Scribner.
dht6000 reviewed The Outsider by Stephen King
The Outsider (2018) is a horror novel by the American author Stephen King. The novel …
Really enjoyed this
4 stars
I found this much more enjoyable than I thought I might, and I find Holly Gibney growing on me after what I thought was a disappointing end to the Bill Hodges books. There are elements of The Dark Half and Desperation creeping through this, two of my favourite King books, which give what starts as a detective tale a disturbing undercurrent from the beginning that grows all the way to the finish.
Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell (Grail Quest (2))
In 1347, a year of conflict and unrest, Thomas of Hookton returns to England to pursue the Holy Grail. Among …
dht6000 rated House of Open Wounds: 5 stars
House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (duplicate) (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the …
dht6000 rated Drift: A Novel: 3 stars
dht6000 rated London rules: 5 stars
London rules by Mick Herron (Slough House, #5)
"London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, …
dht6000 rated Echo of Worlds: 5 stars
Echo of Worlds by M. R. Carey (The Pandominion, #2)
Following the critically acclaimed Infinity Gate comes the second and final novel in the Pandominion by international bestselling M.R. Carey. …