Books Read

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20/10/2023

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree follows an orc adventurer named Viv who, after retiring from a life of violence, opens a cozy coffee shop in a peaceful town, blending fantasy with heartwarming themes of friendship, second chances, and finding a new purpose.

12/12/2023

Daggerspell - Katharine Kerr

Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr is the first book in the Deverry series, blending magic, political intrigue, and reincarnation as it follows the lives of several characters caught in the ongoing conflict between powerful sorcerers and ancient forces.

30/05/2024

All systems red - Martha Wells

All Systems Red by Martha Wells follows a security android, known as Murderbot, who secretly despises its human charges but becomes reluctantly protective of them when they are threatened, exploring themes of autonomy, emotion, and the nature of consciousness.

09/08/2024

The Emperor’s Soul - Brandon Sanderson

The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson follows Shai, a master forger imprisoned for her art, who is given an impossible task—to recreate the Emperor’s shattered soul using magical forgery—in a tense, character-driven story about identity, art, and redemption.

13/09/2024

The Fiends of Nightmaria - Steven Erikson

The Fiends of Nightmaria by Steven Erikson is a darkly satirical novella in which King Bauchelain must navigate political chaos and eldritch horrors as his undead reign over the city of Farrog grows increasingly absurd, blending macabre humor with grim fantasy.

25/10/2024

The player of games - Ian M banks

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks follows Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a master game player from the utopian Culture, who is drawn into a high-stakes, manipulative contest in a brutal alien empire where the outcome could shift the balance of power—and his understanding of morality.

22/11/2024

The slow regard of silent things - Patrick Rothfuss

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss is a quiet, introspective tale following Auri, a mysterious girl living beneath the University, as she tends to the hidden world around her with delicate ritual and reverence, revealing beauty in solitude and the unseen.

14/02/2025

The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin follows physicist Shevek as he challenges societal norms by leaving his anarchist homeworld Anarres to share his groundbreaking theory with the capitalist planet Urras, exploring themes of freedom, inequality, and the complexity of utopian ideals.

14/03/2025

Eternal Odyssey: Chronicles of the Cosmic Sea -

AI SLOP*

Eternal Odyssey: Chronicles of the Cosmic Sea is a bloated mess of AI-generated sci-fi sludge, stitched together with zero originality and characters so flat they make cardboard look deep. It's the worst kind of algorithmic bullshit—soulless, repetitive, and trying way too hard to sound profound while saying absolutely nothing. 
*well it wasn't a human who wrote it.

11/04/2025

0.4 / Human.4 - Mike A. Lancaster

In 0.4 / Human.4 by Mike A. Lancaster, teenager Kyle Straker discovers he’s one of the last unaltered humans after a mass technological upgrade transforms society, forcing him to question what it truly means to be human.

09/05/2025

Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire follows teens at a mysterious boarding school for children who’ve returned from magical worlds, exploring identity, belonging, and the cost of finding — and losing — the place you truly belong.

13/06/2025

And Put away Childish things - Adrian Tchaikovsky

TBC