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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter Review
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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter is Christian Cameron's first novel-length Tom Swan adventure, the former all being serialized novels realized in parts. It loses nothing as it gains length, in fact, Saint Peter might be the strongest entry yet.
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The Song of Achilles Review
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Anyone familiar with Greek mythology knows how this story ends. Patroclus, dead in Achilles' armor at the walls of Troy. Achilles, broken with grief, avenging him and wanting to die, dying. Yet even knowing how the story ends, The Song of Achilles was a surprise and a page-turner: not simply a...
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The Hands of the Emperor Review
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This is a book that shouldn't, by all the rules that govern what makes a book "work", be anywhere near as good as it is. Victoria Goddard has crafted a novel here that goes against every established convention of the genre: there's no war, vanishingly little violence, there's really very little...
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More Thoughts on Hands of the Emperor
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I'm about halfway done this book and still loving it. The characters on display here are some of the most deeply human I've ever read. The Emperor's deepening friendship with Cliopher and the rest of the crew is charming and realistic. None of us are Emperors of entire worlds
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Hands of the Emperor Thoughts
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My next read was supposed to be The Song of Achilles, the last book on my list for the 2022 r/fantasy Book Bingo challenge. I started it, read a few pages. I seems great. Then I saw a snippet of Victoria Goddard's The Hands of the Emperor. That took me to its Amazon page, where I spent the next 2...
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Project Hail Mary Review
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Sci-fi isn't normally my genre. I'll take swords, kings, and magic any day over spaceships and physics. Every once in a while, though, I pick up a sci-fi book, and almost every time I find myself really enjoying it. Project Hail Mary is no exception.
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