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Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two...

The Power to Get Things Done: (Whether You Feel Like it or Not)

Chris Cooper and Steve Levinson

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A psychologist and work coach collaborate on a "cheat sheet" of practical ways to turn good...

Steph (468 KP) rated The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty #2) in Books

Jul 9, 2018

I am incredibly impressed with the amount of research that must have gone into this book, for politics, military strategy, engineering, physics, and more. That being said, to me the most important thing is characters and I think they fell a little short on this one. Parts of the plot were a little confusing and hard to follow as well. Jia's struggle for power/efforts to unite the throne seemed silly and it was difficult to see the political accumen involved. I was also surprised at how cold and calculating she became. The plot started off rather slow and seemed to end too soon with a lot happening far too quickly at the end. Ultimately this book read more like the first in a series with The Grace of Kings as a prequel. Nevertheless, I still admire the work that went into this book and the brilliance behind the ideas.