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Aquila ka Hecate
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I don't know what it is about Clive Barker - he's British, he writes very successful horror, so I should like him - but I just can't get into his works.
I've tried a couple around the Weaveworld era, but found them ultimately forgettable. I tried to read Abarat but couldn't get past the first few pages.
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12 Rules for life : Jordan Peterson
Great so far, definitely more accessible then some of his other content.
Great so far, definitely more accessible then some of his other content.
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Didier Drogba - Commitment
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Enjoy ! They haven't completely massacred the movie but have to finish the book before you see it.
R13...
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Scourged - Kevin Hearne
Last in the Iron Druid chronicles. Kinda sucked I think, I guess it is hard for authors to wrap up stories. Like Peter V Brett in the Demon Cycle, Hearne does a poor job of concluding his series. Some of the story lines don't make sense and just end up as dead ends. Not sure why he wrote it like that
Last in the Iron Druid chronicles. Kinda sucked I think, I guess it is hard for authors to wrap up stories. Like Peter V Brett in the Demon Cycle, Hearne does a poor job of concluding his series. Some of the story lines don't make sense and just end up as dead ends. Not sure why he wrote it like that
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So I finished this and I have to say it was pretty meh. Not bad but just more of the same. I said I was hoping for the usual high quality sci-fi space opera from Reynolds but in retrospect it feels like if you've read one, you've read them all. So, yes, it bored me, but not because it was bad, just very predictable and same old, same old... Also felt a bit pointless
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Glad to hear that!
I personally preferred Use of Weapons to Excession but that's just me.
It isn't really that it jumps around as such, more of odd and even chapters dealing with the same time line from different points.
In my mind you could start reading the book from the back or front but only do every second chapter if you wanted cohesiveness in the time line.
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I started ^this after finished off the last in the Agent Cormac series of the Polity universe. Was a good read.
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Continuing my exploration of Eastern fantasy. Having finished I Shall Seal The Heavens, one of the best series I've ever read (5/5), I read Shura's Wrath (quite violent, bit dark, 3/5 but enjoyable if you like brutal action), then moved onto Overgeared (absolutely hilarious, literally laugh-out-loud funny with an MC who shows more growth than any other MC I've encountered in a while, 4/5) and at the moment I'm busy with World of Cultivation (I'd say 3.5/5. Translation is a bit lacking at times and while I like the MC, the story in ISSTH is better, Overgeared is funnier and Shura's Wrath has a lot more badass action).
