Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss My rating: 3 of 5 stars I found the narrator’s voice grating, frankly, and his manner of delivery was arrogant. That might reflect the author’s level of confidence in the material, but it was somewhat difficult for me to get past it. […]
Review: Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a wonderful book, and it will take an honored place on my short shelf of books recommended for anyone interested in an ethically non-monogamous lifestyle. That said, I’m glad I purchased the ebook as well as the Audible version, as […]
Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is an impressive tome, but it’s also clearly biased in favor of a particular political view. I suppose it isn’t possible for a human to write wholly without bias, but I found it distracting. The narrator sounded disgusted […]
Review: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear My rating: 4 of 5 stars The book is good except for the endless sports analogies. I should have known this would happen since the book opens with the tale of a major injury the author suffered while […]
Review: We Are Meridians by S. Ghali
WE ARE MERIDIANS: BOOK ONE by S. Ghali My rating: 2 of 5 stars There I was, merrily reading along in this science fiction book. Then WHAM, S. Ghali ruined it completely. How? They depicted the main female character as having an irresistible attraction to the alien who was her enemy minutes before, a member of […]
Review: Sucker Punch by Laurell K. Hamilton
Sucker Punch by Laurell K. Hamilton My rating: 3 of 5 stars Boring! If I hadn’t been having trouble finding enough to read, I wouldn’t have finished it. I thought there was too much talking in Serpentine, but this volume takes the cake. While Anita is ostensibly in a small Michigan town because a therianthrope has […]
Review: Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon
Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another decent, though not amazing, book from Moon. I messed up in not doing my review as soon as I finished, because I moved straight on to volume three in the series, Engaging the Enemy. Obviously, the series did get more interesting in book two! View […]
Review: Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon
Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to like Vatta’s War as much as I did The Serrano Legacy, but this one nearly lost me at some points. Maybe it’s intended for a young adult audience? Considering the age of the main character, that may be the case. Still, I […]
Review: The Peter Grant/Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch My rating: 5 of 5 stars I just finished Lies Sleeping after reading the entire series straight through, so this review is about the series as much as about the ultimate entry in it. Wow! I’ve been immersed in the marvelous world Aaronovitch created for us, and it’s a shock coming back. […]
Review: The Serrano Legacy Series by Elizabeth Moon
Against the Odds by Elizabeth Moon My rating: 5 of 5 stars I just finished reading the entire Serrano Legacy series by Elizabeth Moon, and I’m experiencing fiction letdown syndrome. You know, when you’ve been totally engaged in a marvelous world that’s so believable, and then suddenly, it’s over! It’s hard to come back to this world […]