dana_naylor's reviews
475 reviews

Yuck.

The writing reads smoothly. It didn’t hurt to read. 
I didn’t like it though.
Without the frame, the interior mystery isn’t that interesting.
I find the frame story rather annoying, disquieting, too creepy, and unbelievable.

Some really relatable, really cute cat cartoons.
However, cat dies at end of book. I get that it’s a collection of her web comics, but including the pet’s death is just rough. I like reading to escape reality!

Vlad goes East to learn about his mother's family.
He doesn't learn much about them, but we do learn how he lost his finger.
Loiosh is entertaining, but too much of the story is left unexplained as I read it.
There's an exposition dump in the last chapter explaining what was going on throughout the book.
One of the weaker books in the series IMO.

It's not fun to read, but it's well-written and really appropriate for our times.

The book is translated from the French. Geraldine Schwarz grew up in France - her mother, French, her father, German. Her paternal grandparents were Mitlaufer, "those who followed the current" and her maternal grandfather was a police officer in Vichy France.

I don't entirely know what I want to say about this book.
It's definitely worth reading.
It explains why memory work and reconciliation is so essential. 
It feels that we are in the early 1930s again and it is a scary time.

Wow.

I read this relatively slowly for me since I read it as a read-along and I often make copious notes during read-alongs. I went on a whole journey with it and with my predictions. In some I was right; in some wrong. And OMG!!! I misread a note at the end of the book in a different font and it changes the book's ending completely IMO. If you read the ebook, you may want to look at the end on a higher-resolution device than just the kindle.

I read a bunch of books on the Franklin expeditions back in 2016, so it was fun to revisit it in some different ways. I expect I will reread this book in a bit.
Strong recommendation.

Vlad gets involved with legal issues to help out Aliera.
We see all the major players, but the book is kind of disappointing overall.
It doesn’t feel like a self-contained story, and it doesn’t progress the main story. Vlad ends in pretty much the same situation he began in.

I think if I were to reread the series another time, this is a book I’d be fine skipping. (This was my first reading of Iorich. I’ve been rereading all other books in the series so far, so had hoped for more from one that’s new to me.)

We are back in Adrilankha immediately after ending of Issola.
All from Vlad’s pov.

It's a tough read.

Book is divided into three parts: Psyops, Culture WARS, and Disarmament.
As Newitz is also a science fiction author, it's no surprise that they use science fiction examples and comic examples throughout the book. I WAS very surprised to learn that a well-known science fiction author from the 50s, Cordwainer Smith by penname, wrote the book on Psychological Warfare for the US Military in 1948.

It's a good book and I'm glad I read it, even though not much was new to me.
I found it much more hopeful to read now that Harris is running for president. I think it would have been (as they say it was for them) much more traumatic to read earlier in the year.

We are back with Vlad, Aliera, Morrolan, Lady Teldra, and Verra.
Pretty tightly contained with locations. 
Enjoyable. Loads of snark. All from Vlad’s pov, so nice change of pace.
I did get tired of overuse of “Heh” as laugh. Got annoying.
Still enjoy stories!

I enjoy Liu’s graphic novels and was curious about her novel series.
Overall, meh.
Paranormal romance. It’s not bad but it’s also not good.
Rape is used as a threat (not between main characters…book was published in 2005).
I may read the next few in the series, but only because I already own them as ebooks.