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Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
3.0
2.5 ⭐️’s
I’m baffled by how positively this book has been reviewed by some readers. It isn’t a bad piece of work, but it’s otherwise unremarkable. The author seems to have tried to produce something akin to the works of his friend Stephen King without any of the deep character development that makes King’s stories so engrossing. And while the prose is easy to read, it leans into cliches.
I’m baffled by how positively this book has been reviewed by some readers. It isn’t a bad piece of work, but it’s otherwise unremarkable. The author seems to have tried to produce something akin to the works of his friend Stephen King without any of the deep character development that makes King’s stories so engrossing. And while the prose is easy to read, it leans into cliches.
Neuromancer by William Gibson
3.0
Undoubtedly a genre-defining book, if I may state the obvious. But I think that Gibson needed to do more telling and not as much showing in his writing, even though this goes against some general advice that fiction writers are given. The density of the prose was off-putting at times. I wanted to be engaged more, but I felt that Gibson's writing hindered that.
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
4.0
You’ll see obvious parallels to the Witcher books and games here, and that’s cool with me. My Polish ancestry and my family’s roots in Chicago, paired with the real locations I’ve been to in Chicago where parts of this novella takes place, left me with a real love of the story. Here’s to hoping for a sequel.
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
4.0
If you want historical fiction that will place you in 1980s NYC during the thick of the AIDS epidemic, this is your book.
Network Effect by Martha Wells
5.0
Murderbot + ART is the most interesting protagonist-protagonist relationship in recent memory. And my god, does Martha Wells know how to write opening scenes or what?!