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Probably DNF, halfway through

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-22-24

I’ll edit this if I end up finishing.

This book (and its predecessor) are not supposed to be serious literature, not just because it is M/M smut urban fantasy (long live this genre!) but also the way co-main character Andras is portrayed would totally undermine anything other than light-hearted fun plots with blahblah macguffins.

Sadly, this second book has now so far two flashback scenes with really awful child abuse (psychological, emotional) that completely destroy the mood I’m in when I sit down to listen to a lighthearted gay smutty fantasy during tike when I am cleaning or doing work on my hobby. You cannot hold “dumb fun” and heartache for a child so cruelly and graphically abused as shown here, in your mind at the same time, and somehow the author also still thinks it’s a good idea to implement Andras’ flippant tone and “nothing is serious let’s never ask questions that would solve the plot” personality almost nonstop.

Really, super duper jarring. It would be worse if some paragraphs’ style would switch to Charles Dickens-like prose, and then to Shakespearean meter, and then back to never-editted stream of consciousness writing, but that is indeed somehow the emotional jarriness of the content.

Absolutely no good for treating as light-hearted fare, and also I am unwilling to find out what payoff the author thinks is worth this gratuitous child abuse. If I can find an online spoiler to find out how the story ends I will do it, I have no faith in the author now to navigate the rest of this story. Trust broken.

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Perhaps the most important fantasy I have read

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-03-24

Each of the prior three books of the cycle were excellent, but this feels different in an important way. I may, or may not, re-read the others, but I will surely re-read this. There is something in it, some content that feels not like a message or lesson but like something buoyant. Driftwood on a choppy sea to cling to.

I will be digesting what the author had to say, and revisiting it to see it in new ways, for years I think.

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Beautiful story

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-28-24

I enjoyed feeling how strongly Gedd values life. His defence of it, and of death, and of the cycle that is the equilibrium was really moving. Finished the book on a plane and felt like I couldn’t do or read anything else for the next hour as I thought about it.

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I can’t express how great this was

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-13-23

This is such a hidden gem of a book. I picked it up because I wanted some supernatural gay smut, and I have read a LOT of it, but I got way more than I bargained for this time. Every character became really well fleshed out and built a tapestry of a story, and I cried like five times. A bit awkward since I listened on airplanes and trains and in airports as part of my pilgrimage hoke for the holidays!

It was also deliciously horny. “Hunkalicious,” to quote the late and great Natalie.

The core relationship is brilliant and I will read every word of all future books in this series, and I’m surely going to go visit Alice Winters’ other books after this one.

I nearly had a point of critique: it was pretty clear how the “will-they-won’t they” would develop quite early on, so I had some distracting thoughts of impatience, but now having finished the book I am completely at peace with the pacing, it was all character and world building, and also gave more nuance to the relationship as it emerged.

I know for sure I will haunt Hiro when it’s my time, he’s such a great guy.

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Excellent! Finally dealing with some important implications!

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-23-23

I enjoyed the book, and would also have enjoyed another silly string of events where our all-powerful, occasionally idiotic protagonists make work for themselves.

What we actually got was a pretty good mystery that dealt with some of the looming implications entailed by how this whole universe works. I was broadly really satisfied, though my personal opinion of some of the characters shifted toward annoyance from admiration.

The book sets the stage for a really interesting next adventure! Downloading even as we speak :)

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Sehr gut, lässt sich sehr angenehm zuhören

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-12-23

Gute alte Geschichte, die ich erst auf Englisch gelesen habe (da ich bin Kanadier) und jetzt mit Freude auf Deutsch höre.

Keine wichtige Klagen, aber es verwirrt mich, dass die “Kapitel” nur 2-3 Minuten Schnitte sind, davon hunderte. Warum nicht die ursprüngliche Kapitel? Jetzt ist völlig unmöglich, “nur ein Kapitel jeden Abend” zu hören. Darüber hinaus, wenn ich nochmal was hören möchte, zum Beispiel wenn ein Kind an mich redet und ich den Plot verliere, kann ich nicht einfach zum Anfang des Kapitels gehen.

Aber davon abgesehen ist alles toll. Viele Kleinigkeiten kommen leicht rassistisch vor, den der weisse US-Amerikanische Schriftsteller dies vor vielen Jahrzehnten geschrieben hat, aber man sieht dass es nicht böse gemeint war. Meinerseits übersehe ich dies einfach.

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Imago Audiolibro Por Octavia E. Butler arte de portada

Excellent final part of a terrific series

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-24-23

I really didn’t want a book filled with action or intense drama. I like to listen an hour or so at a time, and just enjoy the story.

This whole series has been excellent for this. Most of the book is conversations or introspection about what was learned in conversation. Pacing was fine, and I loved being able to luxuriate in the weird concepts Butler came up with to bring an alien people to life.

Honestly, the three books were a heady expedition into an alien mind. In the first, we are with Lilith as as get to know an alien race and many things are appropriately positioned as “it’s not really understandable but it’s how the Oankali work”. In the second book, we follow Lilith’s son who has much to share with us about who the Oankali are as a people. But only in this final book do we get to really understand their values and it’s chilling at times to deeply comprehend their alien-ness. In Book 1, we just saw and accepted it, but by the end of this book I get it feel really exhilarated for it.

I will buy these hard copy as well =D

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Wie schön, die alten Freunde nochmal zu treffen

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-19-23

Bin in Kanada mit diesen Büchern aufgewachsen, und jetzt dass ich in Deutschland wohne, finde ich die Gelegenheit mein Deutsch damit zu üben sehr angenehm.

Die erste Hälfte des Buches ist damit beschäftigt, wie es den Hauptfiguren von früherer Geschichte geht. Nichts besonderes ist geschehen, aber trotzdem gefällt es mir sehr.

Dann haben wir einen richtigen Plot, und es geht auch sehr schnell und interessant. Ich habe die meisten kleinen Details vergessen, also es hat mich gefreut, das alles quasi neu zu erfahren.

Der Lautleser war perfekt, gar keine Klagen gibt’s.

Danke für das ausgezeichnete Stuck! Ich kaufe das Nächste sofort.

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Adulthood Rites Audiolibro Por Octavia E. Butler arte de portada

Engaging, couldn’t multitask at all; so stimulating

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-13-23

Love it! Love how calm and slow the plot is, even when things are moving it is always not in a hurry. So many well-introduced ideas and mindsets. I feel like I need to get a physical copy and store it somewhere to survive an apocalypse.

The narrator nails everything, I couldn’t be happier. How does one person have so many voices!?

The first book showed us Lilith as she adapted to her new world, and we saw three major times for her: getting to know the Oankali, helping humans get set up, and finally getting ready for the return to Earth.

In this book, we follow her son through three impactful times in his early life, and I completely felt like I was right there alongside Akeen.

Can’t wait to start the final book. The teaser at the end of this one has my mind racing!

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Dawn Audiolibro Por Octavia E. Butler arte de portada

Excellent, slow-paced and thoughtful

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-05-23

I really enjoyed the book. I heard a preview on the podcast Imaginary Worlds (episode from 22 Dec 2022) where excerpts of the first worldsetting chapters were read aloud. Hooked immediately.

The tone and gravity of this book reminded me of Ursula le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness: rarely fast-paced, conversation-driven, and full of small thoughtful details.

I just purchased the next book and am eager to read.

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