itspronouncedtessa's reviews
317 reviews

Convoluted, dry, predictable, juvenile, stilted and boring. Whoever recommended this to me, it's on sight, buddy. 

A wonderful and weirdly cozy fever dream of a book, but maybe not a bedtime story for a lepidopterophobe.

This was a beast, but what a ride.

Leave it to Tchaikovsky to make dark fantasy actually dark fantasy. 

I could write a 12 page essay on this book (on any Pratchett, tbf), but I'll try to keep it brief. 

TL;DR: It's better than Discworld fans will have you believe. 

It has romance and classism, adventure and racism, fashion and feminism. And football. But also Vetinari off his tits and a gay Diego Maradona. So something for everybody. 

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett 💛

Call me basic, but I know what I like and I like silly magical realism with a diverse cast, not too much romance and a good mystery plot. 

The murderous unicorns are a bonus, really. 

Good, fast paced, ridiculous, magical noir pulp. Just chef's kiss levels of fast-food-fiction. 

I love Dresden. I love the fact that he took a shower (several showers!) even more. 

Multiverse perfection, reminiscent of Terry Pratchett's and Stephen Baxter's Long Earth series and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Doors of Eden. 

- "[B]unny and heavy armor, that’s both cute and hilarious." 

I could not get over the violent torture porn. The constant dick measuring over who can take or dish out pain and cruelty the best. And those are the good guys. 

The characters are unlikeable at best and the story is a gossamer thin convoluted multiverse/timetravel plot buried deep within a heap of gore, oppression and hatred. 

Starts off funny and cozy and only mildly weird. Then BAM, page 110 happens and it becomes an only-read-by-daylight-book.

By page 250ish it does jump the shark a little bit, but it's Kingfisher. Kingfisher can jump sharks like no other. 

Smart, fast, tense and clammy.

Everything feels wet and sticky and I now know far too much about death by overheating, but what a ride.