oz617's reviews
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The most interesting thing about this collection is the dialect – I don’t know if speaking Shetlandic dialect natively would make the poems more impactful or less.

Picked this up purely because the author’s name was Jadzia and it was a sci fi, fell in love with the atmosphere, characters, and plot. Definitely a highlight of my recent graphic novel kick.

I read this in the library in one sitting, and the only time my eyes left the page was when I wiped away the tears.

There are some points where I’d love Blish to take full advantage of the form, and tell us more of what the characters were thinking about the events. That aside, this was a good set of episodes, and I didn’t feel like they lost any of the magic when being adapted into short stories.

Very strong anthology. I’ve been rotating the story about the old man’s shoes in my head for days now.

Found this book abandoned on a roadside – hopefully by someone skipping off into the sunset to improve their professional life.

I don’t know how this book manages to make me feel nostalgic for wartime Britain, but it hits the sort of English tone I love.

Well drawn and charming, but I felt by the end that the message of the story was “depression exists”, which… true! If I were a school counsellor, I might hand a copy of this to a sad teenager. It just hits a sad indie millennial girl vibe – nothing inherently wrong with that, but to me it feels lacking of substance.

Loved reading the author’s foreword. The quality of writing has definitely improved over the series, even as Blish slowly runs out of episodes to cover.

Sweet story – though I feel like the Secret Seven books are all the same, this town is rolling in thieves. I always preferred the Famous Five