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Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao | Book Review

7/17/2022

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                This novel was billed as "Pacific Rim" meets "Handmaid's Tale" in Ancient China and ooh, boy did it deliver! 
            All the best pieces of the Kaiju / Jaeger / Drift concepts have been elegantly reworked to suit a modified Ancient China setting. At first glance, a big piece of the setting's establishing circumstances seem chaotic and unexplained, and the impetus of the conflict isn't explained until literally the last chapter, but oh is it an exceptional shift of the working paradigm. The lack of clarity on the conflict is mildly irksome as your read, but it's pretty straightforwardly forgivable as the main character is repeatedly confronted by the ways in which her limited access has bred an oblivious ignorance that is so pervasive, her failure to connect the dots often shocks even her.
             The whole misogyny thing is a bit overly-in-your-face, honestly, but, again, with the context of that massive, last-few-chapters reveal that reframes why the whole conflict is happening it gets presented as a plausible and terrifying escalation of the current world's trending misogyny, rather than a depiction of abuses towards females that Society has purportedly grown beyond
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     Wu Zeitan is utterly ruthless and patently unconcerned by pretty much anything, including modesty, body-counts, collateral-damage (historically, par for the course, given her real-world namesake). It's all framed as a hyperbolic reaction to grief and the fury at having that grief ignored and dismissed. It's a great depiction of how the "edgy, angry" girl isn't just emo and cool, but is straightforwardly suicidal, but in a "if I'm gonna die, I'm taking the whole world with me" kinda way. She is deranged and delusional and while that often gives her the power to leverage herself into a position of relative power, it just as often goes badly for her. She's not simply depicted as the 'break the world to make it better' kind of revolutionary, she's given lines that indicate that she's self-deluding to make herself believe that she's going to be the savior or woman-kind, and make things better, but there are obvious arcs that show how she is truly after personal power. Not to mention that it's shown that simply reversing the system so men are subjugated through the very same pathways of inequality as women used to be is simply replacing misogyny with misandry and it fails to actually fix anything or save anyone. 
       She has moments of lightness, forgiveness, and acknowledgement of the desire to love/be-loved, and for the most part she finds herself disappointed by any and all avenues she has to explore that concept (and by those people who encourage it).
                This means, in a partly unfortunately exertion of balance, that the big selling point of the Poly-ship is actually a little downgraded in my opinion. It's fairly well constructed in terms of establishing both emotional attachment and physical attraction between the trio, but I still read it much more as a falling-together of desperate hearts rather than a true-love romance with 3 participants instead of the usual 2.
            That said, however, successful marriages, and what I consider to be genuine love, is not comprised of the fairytale, shippy, true-love magic that most YA romances peddle. The way healthy love works is that individuals proactively decide to love each other and continuously chose to make it work. Active discussions, healthy communication of wants and needs, self-reliance despite dyad (or triad, quad, etc) integration (which applies to non-romantic bonds, such and Family and Friend sets and is also known as "we thinking", ie, 'we're going to the beach this summer')... all of that is present in this novel and necessary to a truly viable healthy relationship. And yet, the whole 'we are literally the only people in the entire world who treat each other like humans' thing is NOT a healthy motivation nor is it a convincingly romantic motivation for a love match pairing...
              I'm curious to see how it all works out in the sequel, particularly as... well... Spoilers.
           Overall, this is a brutal, but gloriously well-depicted world with characters in varied states of mental collapse that reflect genuine psychology in both range and severity. The body-count is high, the brutality is significant, the presence of consent is glaringly absent in a number of circumstances, and the positive influences are non-existent, but there's not explicit sex, no drugs, alcohol abuse depicted as a disease, and the non-con elements are never excused or apologized for. It's not a book for every 13-year-old, but honestly I think it suits a vast majority of them.
           Parental discretion IS advised, but I strongly recommend that this novel be seriously considered as a viable  option for any teen reader!
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Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson | Book Review

7/21/2021

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            As one of Time's 'Top 100 Books in English' of all time, this novel genuinely does make some really fascinating comments on the state of the human condition, individual consciousness, and general societal decay. Personally, I wouldn't say it's one of the best books ever written, or anything, but it's definitely significant.
Date Read: ​June 20th, 2021
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​Final Score: 8 / 10 !

​          As a Hyper-Futuristic novel that was originally published in 1992, this definitely has a very Blade Runner or Ghost in the Shell kinda vibe-- mainly that Life is still Life despite the calamity of the Technopocalypse, 90's grunge became more than just a fashion statement as the Government basically collapsed, and everything goes more smoothly when we all roll up to every negotiation with a health dose of sarcasm to play ball with.
         I definitely enjoyed the acknowledgement of the fact that people want Life to be a cliche and chipper-yet-dramatic action movie, to the point that people literally shape their lives into fitting the mold they'd envisioned, but I did feel it missed the mark in some places, simply because the narrative's official 'victory' didn't really deal with any part of the real Problem, it just removed the present Threat. There's likely an intentional comment in that, but I feel like it's rendered ineffective because I'm more concerned with how the story feels unresolved in the big-picture view of it than I am with how it shows that leaving problem resolution unfinished is one of the main reasons the world collapsed to begin with...
          The best part of the ending, absolutely, is the bit where when the world-ending threat is dealt with and all that, it's time to call Mom for a ride home (and she shows up to help, no questions asked, happy to not-quite participate and simply support her child).
            I did also like the brief comments on the rest of the world. American dystopia lit is chronically awful at remembering that the rest of the world exists (and that, as a whole, most of it is better suited to adapting to Apocalypse World than the US population).
           The narrative style was dramatic and highly unique. While I didn't enjoy it, per se, I do think it was well-accomplished and that it suited the story it was meant to tell. It DID produce a ton of really great quotable moments, though, which I highly appreciate.
            The characters were great, even though we only got to view them on a fairly surface level (a symptom of it being both an adult novel and being a product of 80's & 90's dystopia narrative convention). More importantly, I really enjoyed how our two main characters were essentially accidental BFFs and the narration never so much as hinted at there being any legitimate romantic potential between them.
             The plot was fun and worked into the grit of complex world building as an intrinsic and inevitable aspect of what a world like this would produce, so while I didn't actually like some of what happened, I DEEPLY enjoyed that the world's mechanics were so closely linked to what occurred within it and vice versa. It also had some really great mythology allusions and well-researched inter-connections between language, psychology, and the structure of reality.
           The best bit over all though were the Nice Doggies. Super Creepy? Check. Effectively utilized as narrative tools? Check. Rendered as both immoral and beneficent in turns? Check. PUPPERS BEING PUPPERS? CHECK PLUS! It's an apocalypse in America story, so obviously, someone shoots a dog. But in this case the dog more or less survives and things work out well enough to make things feel optimistic.
             It's an excellent novel, that feels both dated and hyper-futuristic.
            It misses the point, a bit, on how and why tech develops as rapidly and all-consuming-ly as it does, but it also makes great comments on why gangs develop and will never be eradicated (there's seriously very little way to corral the problem because the 'problem' is that gang-structure is the single-most efficient governing structure that humans have ever devised and the 'solution' being implements to solve it is a mish-mash of overlapping agencies that serve more to prove the gangs' point than anything).

         I highly recommend it as a modern classic, and a necessary read for anyone to consider themselves well-rounded persons, but it's certainly not one that I'd consider a favorite of mine, personally.
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the Choices of One (a Star Wars Story) - Timothy Zahn | Book Review

7/16/2021

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           So, I've got another Star Wars Expanded Universe novel under my belt! I'm trying to keep a good balance going of Legends media to Canon media, so here's another story from the Legends array! I really, deeply enjoyed this one, definitely enough to recommend it with substantial enthusiasm!
Date Read: June 24th, 2021
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Final Score: 8 / 10 !
          This novel continues (and purportedly ends) the Hand of Judgement duology, the first one being Allegiance, as reviewed a few weeks ago.

          I enjoyed this one MUCH more than the first on in the sub-series. I felt like the inclusion of Chewie, Han, Luke, & Leia made a lot more legitimate sense in this novel than it did the other one (where they were essentially just bandied about as prop pieces). Here, they actually have ROLES in the story's plot progression, and more than that they have genuine personalities. I DEEPLY enjoy the way in which Luke is basically universally disparaged by everyone on all sides of the conflict as well-meaning, but absolutely useless at 99% of the Things that Need Doing... It's adorable (and as rendered here, it's actually endearing). And as we're still in a setting that's only about 8 months out from the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin IV in Episode IV, it makes perfect sense to include the mainline protagonists.

​       But, as with the first one, the real bit of excellence in this story is the Storm Trooper dynamics with all their complicated loyalties and dedications. The crew we've gotten to know in this sub-series is excellent and they show off their training and inter-personal coordination extremely well here. It's AWESOME. Even their interactions with Mara Jade, Luke Skywalker, and the crew's new Troukree associates are all delightfully character-exposing, for everyone involved!
            The part I was most surprised about in this story was Thrawn's involvement. I think it was well rendered, even if there was a bit of a bait-and-switch about it where the reader really had no chance at figuring out the truth of the matter until Zahn only exposed it.
           Though I have to admit I am SUPER confused at the repercussions of Thrawn's declared stance at the end of this one... Honestly, without the little bit right at the very end, like seriously the last 5 pages at most, I think it could be considered fully canon still. While I'm not exactly yet a model of Canon expertise, nothing about this story (at least while reading it without that last little assertion of Thrawn's place as a particularly significant figure in the Outer Rim) contradicts anything I've read/seen that's still considered Canon.
           I'm not really sure where Zahn was going to go with all that, but since it's now Legends it doesn't exactly matter any more, so I'm not counting that confusing-bit as a negative.

         What I didn't like about this story was only that it felt like a little exposition and then a GINORMOUS battle sequence. While the battle was epic and interesting, I would have liked just a little more post-battle follow-up. Mara Jade totes deserves to know her Troopers are alive. How exactly Han and Chewie got out of the Golan Battle Station and away without anyone in the rest of the battle even commenting on their presence beyond a brief 'oh, right, they're still up there and stuff', is something I would've liked to see more detail on... Along with exactly what supplies and new toys were successfully acquired by the Rebels in the aftermath. And then most importantly: the whole Nuso Esva schtick needs a bit more explanation (or really, a LOT more explanation)...
           This is why I mentioned earlier that this novel purportedly ends the Hand of Judgement duology... It doesn't END shit... Nuso Esva comes out of no where, proceeds to be awesomely interesting as he challenges Thrawn to a bout of War Games, and then vanishes into the Black as a problem to be Dealt With Later... Google says he dies 8 years after the Battle of Yavin IV, but then says not much else about him at all. I'm sure there's other media with him somewhere, but it really seems like a waste of a potentially interesting character (and potentially interesting character interactions) to just end.
            I love Thrawn and I think having some weird, hyper-competent Unknown Regions warlord regularly challenge him would be cool, so I at least HOPE there's more media with the pair of them competing against each other in it. And honestly, having the Hand of Judgement Trooper Crew working sporadically with Thrawn and Mara Jade to train Outer Rim Aliens to fight Nuso Esva? THAT sounds like bestseller material to me...
             Anywhoo~, the only other thing I disliked was the way Zahn did his chapters / PoV jumps, but as I think that's just a conversion error with the eBook version, I'm not holding that against him.

        I liked it better than
Allegiance and I think it can be read well enough without the first one, so it's definitely becoming a staple-recommendation of mine for the Star Wars EU!
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Warcross - Marie Lu |  Book Review

7/9/2021

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Date Read: June 1st, 2021
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Final Score: 7 / 10 !
         This is EXACTLY the type of thing I like to see from Marie Lu, it's one of the reasons I like her as an author and one of the biggest causes of my disappointment in her Batman story (I still cannot believe that DC approved that bit of nonsense).
         Warcross is the perfect mix of angst and action, with just the right amount of heart thrown in to complicate matters!
        The world-building was excellent. It dug deeply enough into the complex world of tech & game design, along with the high-stakes universe of eSports, without over-doing the nitty-gritty details. Lu gives weight to the realities of the world, dropping in details of police-work and every-day lives outside the plot-- a critical thing in Sci-Fi world-building that often goes overlooked in YA but happens effortlessly in realistic fiction.
            The cast was on the smaller side, but it was well-crafted and the characters evolved naturally. Their strengths became their weaknesses and vice versa in very elegant arcs as they were confronted with new challenges, particularly regarding new questions about each other's intentions and loyalties.
            The plot was neat and engaging. There were parts of it that felt a bit overly straightforward (like Zero's true identity, and the particulars of the terrorist plot), but over all it was a well-paced adventure and none of the obvious answers hung over an unknowing-character's head for so long it got annoying.

          I will definitely be picking up the second book in the duology ASAP!
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Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (Book Review)

7/7/2021

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Date Read: ​May 28th, 2021
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Final Score: 8 / 10 !
         Wow. Like seriously WOW. This was an AWESOME treat to read!
 
      It was a really intricate world and had absolutely EPIC characters! When combined with a plot that was halfway between an Agatha Christie novel (a la 'And Then There Were None') and a Space Opera remix of Max Max, this was AWESOME.
        Action packed, full of personal politicking social intrigue, intricate discussions of anatomy and theoretical science... It was an encompassing swirl of deeply engaging storytelling and 'couldn't put it down' drama!
It's also a great representation of LBGTQ+ Lit in adult SciFi where there romance is secondary and Not-A-Big-Deal-TM, while still keeping the notion of gender/sexuality being a spectrum at the fore. It's a great example of how to run a universe with LGBTQ rep, entirely because it doesn't stop to Examine-Things every time a non-binary blip pops up on the reader's radar.
          Everything about this was epic. And it was one of the very best versions of 'how to make a character a badass super-fighter' without just making them ridiculous or overpowered. Gideon is Epic. And she's an insecure disaster of a human. And she loses a lot. But she's shown very elegantly as being an incredible swordswoman.
          All in all, it's very well done.
          I only have 2 complaints, and one is really only half a complaint:
       Mainly, there was like zero comprehensive world building. This is the half-complaint because it was part of Gideon's character building. Gideon doesn't frickin care how the world functions. So she didn't really discuss it in her mental monologue. It was great, even as it got a bit annoying/confusing towards the very end.
        The only other piece of complaint I've got is that the final fight scene was excessive. It was just too long and too over the top to really play well with the pacing of the rest of it. I do understand why the choice to make it that way was made, but I disagree and I dislike the outcome of the final rendering. I would've shortened it by a few pages. Nothing too drastic, but it just got long ...
         Otherwise, this is probably the best book I've read thus far this year!

​And it's a GREAT transition for readers in Upper YA who are thinking about jumping into the mixed-bag of adult-SciFi!
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That Inevitable Victorian Thing - E.K. Johnston

6/16/2021

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Date Read: May 7th, 2021
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Final Score: 5 / 10 !

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           Well, this was an odd one. The premise was super intriguing, namely how the world would look if the British Empire never collapsed (and within that, the idea of how different things might've been if the Brits weren't racial purists in the way that they were... and if they were a helluva lot less in-bred and sickly as they've made themselves)... It was definitely an intriguing experiment in thought-exercises.

​            Unfortunately, 'intriguing thought-experiment' is really as far as this one went in terms of interest-value. There was a mildly cute love story, and some discussion of the complexities of commerce and the politics of dealing with pirates, but the fixation of genetic compatibility and the overly intense commentary on 'race' as a non-entity just got a little too solid to enjoy much else. It was a valid point, but it definitely got in the way of anything really happening. The story covers about 2 months of time, with far too many days skipped in sweeping, 'things went on like that for x hours / rest of the afternoon /  duration of the week' or such... And the angsts of the characters were laughable.


              Only August had any actual problems to deal with but the bulk of the narrative was focused on the two girls who had no real problems whatsoever. And the ending resolved with August's dad swooping into to fix things for him, and his joining the girls in realizing that none of them had any real problems to begin with... The inevitable thing was simply the obvious arrangement that ensured that none of them ever had to deal with any repercussions of a problem that was never really significant anyway.

             As a thought experiment, it was kind of neat.

            As a story? It was pretty lame.

​            I'd only ever recommend it as a low-stakes beach-read / distraction type endeavor with which to while away an afternoon.
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the Other Side of the Sky - Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

6/2/2021

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Date Read: May 20th, 2021
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Final Score: 8 / 10 !

​           I have come to realize that I simply adore Amie Kaufman. I still think it's a little weird that she writes almost nothing on her own. but she seems to pick her co-authors very well and I absolutely love everything I've read with her name on it.
           This one is no exception, in fact I might like it best of all I've read thus far! 
           First of all, it's a gorgeous world, richly imagined and deeply developed with intricate nuance and a vibrant liveliness that makes both cultures feel very real.
           I did wonder about the rest of the world, because surely 2 tribes of humans cannot be the only cultures left on the planet, but at the same time, the limited tech of the one and the utter indifference of the other does very well to explain away the seeming smallness of the world.
           ​I deeply enjoyed the conflation of magic vs technology and religion vs science here, it was laid out very well how similar the two sets of concepts are and why preaching science at someone is just a aggressive an impolite overstep as preaching religion at someone. While respect for science and for academia in general needs to be cultivated in the modern world we live in, accepting the working of science does not make you a better person on any account than someone who does not (and you telling them that they are ridiculous, backwards, and idiotic doesn't help the problem). 
            It's also only a respect for science in the barest terms if you cannot articulate WHY science ought to be accepted and followed in a manner that DOES delineate it from religion. (After all, if you can't explain how an airplane stays in the sky, how is believing that it will any different from someone believing in magic carpets or dragons?)Because the problem with religious dogma and psuedo-religious science is not that one is right and one is wrong, it's that one can demonstrably prove its concepts and can be wholly and fully understood by anyone given the time and genuine effort to do so. The reason people doubt science is largely because the people who accept it cannot explain it any better than a preist or imam or rabbi can explain the Divine. It's not only a problem of ignorance on the side of those who don't accept science, it's also a problem on the side of those who only accept science as a replacement for religion and understand it no better.
               The PROBLEM, therefore, is an over all lack in nuanced education.

            I LOVE when topically simply love stories get at concepts like that. And this one looks at it explicitly and discusses it repeatedly.
            Sadly, it doesn't go into the fact that the solution is a total rehaul on the entire world's educational system, but still, even making the first statement is unexpectedly deep for a YA romance story. ^_~
            And the romance is fun, too! It's well crafted, adorable, and believable in every way... Even if the insta-attraction is still a little over the top and the connection the characters forge comes a little overly quick, there are environmental pressures and cultural reasonings that make such romantic alacrity reasonable.
            I saw the big betrayal coming from a mile off, and while I think it could've been handled slightly differently to make it hit a little harder, I really enjoyed the way that every character fully believed that the all things they did, even the very worst of them, were done for the right reasons.
            I am eager for the the next book in the series, particularly as the last chapter ended with an unreliable narrator dropping a hint that may or may not be a game-changing truth and I am CONCERNED. ^_~
But, I have to wait until January... *sigh*.
            Still, GREAT book, I highly recommend it!

            Fully appropriate for the younger YA crowd and as a transitional for the particularly eager Middle Grade kiddo!
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