This book has received an enormous amount of press (at least I’ve seen a lot) and accolades for a first novel, so I went in expecting to really love it. There is a lot to like about this book, but I found some aspects of it less convincing. This book is set in a universe (possibly even our universe) that has bubbled off smaller universes at its growing edge. these universes are covered by “rinds,”…
I started this book about a week ago but got behind at work and didn’t get to finish it. Then over the last 2 days I read and read and read and could barely put it down. I was really pulled into this world and I love it. Behind the Throne is a story about a gun runner, Hail, who ran away from her life in court as 2nd heir to the throne in order…
This is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future about 400 years after “the collapse,” which is never described in detail, though from context it seems to be a global warming and other human caused extinction events. Humanity has barely made it to the stars in time to get off the dying Earth, and now with the benefit of time, Earth has begun to heal. This is not the point of the book, but it…