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Erika (17789 KP) rated Authority (Southern Reach #2) in Books

Jun 3, 2018

Authority (Southern Reach #2)

Jeff VanderMeer | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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'Ok' is a perfect word to describe the second installment in the Southern Reach Trilogy. I was expecting something a lot like Annihilation. But, this novel was office-based and kind of boring. The last part of the book was the most exciting, after slogging through the first parts. This novel is about the Southern Reach itself, and it's impending collapse. Is the border advancing? What is Area X? Welp, this book still wasn't sure about these questions. The only reason I'm going to complete the series is that I want to know what Area X is.
At least in this installment, they finally use the term 'alien', it only took a book and a half.

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Deborah (162 KP) rated Habits of the House (Love & Inheritance Trilogy, #1) in Books

Dec 21, 2018

I really expected to like this book, but it didn't really live up to my expectations. Plot is aristocratic family, land rich and cash poor and what are they going to do about it. Nothing really new there either. Some other reviewers have seen this as a brilliant satire, but I'm afraid for me it was just a novel with lots of characters, many very undeveloped and most of them not even very likeable.

It is supposed to be the first part of Weldon's Love & Inheritance trilogy, but a lot of lose ends are tied up and this could really be a standalone novel. Certainly I'm far from feeling the compulsion to read the next two volumes.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Limited Wish in Books

Dec 20, 2019

Limited Wish

Mark Lawrence | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.0

(2 Ratings)

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More of the same (timey wimey)

The second book in this trilogy is largely a retelling of the first book. Nick sees some mysterious people, who turn out to be from the future, there is a lot of talk about time travel and parallel universes and there is a heist sequence at the end.
This book was a lot heavier on the pseudo-science and that got a little tiring and head-scratchy at times, with all the talk of paradoxes and whatnot.
This was an enjoyable read, but as with anything time travel related too much creativity and inventiveness can only lead to stretches in plausibility and lengthy justifications for the "science".