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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
Review: Serpentine by Laurell K. Hamilton
Serpentine by Laurell K. Hamilton My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m having a little trouble figuring out a rating for this, the 26th (!) book in the Anita Blake series. On the plus side, the book kept me engaged…