dllh's reviews
704 reviews

I read this one aloud to my wife and son. I had heard a lot of hype about the book and didn't really know what to expect. I really enjoyed it overall. The relationship between Grace and the friend he meets was really neat to see unfold, and their shared discoveries were fun to follow. Weir escalates and escalates, and it works well overall. The science he writes about is believable, and the cataclysmic event and its agent were compelling. My only real complaint was that the characters are pretty universally annoying.

What an interesting story! I was immediately captivated. Jones writes really lovely prose, and I felt very invested in the characters. I liked the first half(ish) of the book more than I liked the switch of point of view later.

I didn't fully appreciate the book immediately after I read it, but I've found it sticking with me in satisfying ways. Some of things I initially took as seeming careless were likely a product of the book's big twist. I was also iffy on the twist at first, but I've come around and think now that it's pretty clever. I like Okorafor's work pretty consistently.

This was fine and at times very interesting, but it was a little tedious at times too. Overall, I'm glad I read it 

This one would pair interestingly with Lauren Groff's Matrix. This is not high adventure or anything, but it really held my attention, with memorable characters and a sort of brooding calm.

It's a weird gripe, but the short lines in this collection bugged me to the point of distraction.

This could have been pretty dry, but it was a fairly compelling account.

This one just didn't do it for me. The story was neat, but I was perpetually confused by the way most of the characters spoke and acted (unrealistically inconsistent), and I felt like there were a lot of logic or continuity gaps that pulled me out of the story. I don't mean the magical realism (or horror?) elements, but speech acts and behaviors that one would expect to be 'normal.'

A nice look at Victorian people of letters and basic human rights. This is both funny and serious.

I liked a lot of these poems. There's a strong iambic current in the book, which I find appealing.