Category: Science Fiction

Hello Lovelies,

Been a minute since I did a book review. Sorry. I’ve been reading, I have just also been very distracted building other content (like my courses, my cooking and keto dieting, my business consultant landing page and sales funnels, some product reviews, and so much more) so I’m a bit behind on my reviews. I actually finished A Thousand Words for Stranger the beginning of June? (I know, I know.)

Anywho, let’s get on to the review

Genre

Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Sira is on the run. The mysterious Captain Morgan has a starship. But if she goes with him, who will be at risk? Meet the Clan, shadowy figures of unfathomable power. Meet Huido, the lobster-like restauranteur. Meet the Trade Pact Enforcers, who have their own intentions. For events are beginning to unfold that will affect them all.

My Take

I actually picked this up as a recommendation from a female Sci-fi author when I complained that I really struggled to find female sci-fi authors who I could connect with their characters and a lot of male sci-fi authors were horrible about creating heroes with boobs. She assured me that I would love Sira.

And you know, for the most part I do. There were a couple of times where I found myself annoyed and rolling my eyes because she needed to be rescued/ fell in love with her captor/ fell into some other annoying stereotype, but I kept reading and actually found that the author turned those annoying stereotypes and cliches on their heads and created an astounding fictional universe where the patriarchy is still strong yet women have risen above it.

Honestly, looking at where we’ve come in the last 1,000 years as a society and how we treat women, there was a lot about this world that makes me feel that this could be humanity’s future another 1,000 years from now. I definitely want to get the rest of this series as soon as my book budget opens back up.

Yep, I’ve already spent my book budget. *Sigh* but it will totally be worth it!

Want to check out A Thousand Words for Stranger?

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Hello Lovelies,

I received Lightspeed Frontier : Kicking the Future in exchange for some exposure on social media and an honest review. This book was received along with several others as part of a summer reading drive for my kids several years ago.

Genre: 

Sci-Fi/ Comedy

Synopsis

Lightspeed Frontier: Kicking the Future is a comedy science fiction novel by Adam Corres, unlike anything else ever written in the genre. It is a book of intensive imagination, idea-fuelled wit, fascinating scientific thought, occasional parody and there are lines in here you can’t help quoting. This novel has been released alongside Lightspeed Frontier the video game, by Vid Rijavec and Philip Devine, developed at Crowdwork Studios and published by Riveted Games.

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My Take

Ya’ll, I did not even know what to make about this book. I started it back in April, 2019 and DNF’ed it because I just couldn’t get into it at the time. It is definitely a book you have to be in the right mood to read. I picked it up the second time just after New Years because one of my family members asked about it and I felt guilty that I never finished it. It was better, but it was still remarkably slow reading for such a small book. 
It is really hard to quite pin down exactly what my issue is with the story. I think, in part, because it is exactly as the description says “unlike anything else ever written in the genre”. And hey. so was Firefly once and a lot of people didn’t get that and I hate them all for it. (J/K)
I can totally see this developing a cult following just like Firefly. Mind you, I am not really comparing it to Firefly because I am a total Firefly Fangirl for Life and this was just… meh? I mean, I finished it and I don’t regret finishing it so it gets 3 stars. It was well written, no major plotholes, the grammar was pretentious at times, but well done.  The world-building is excellent and if even half of that went into the game, then I imagine the game would be quite fun.  
I think one of the elements I struggle with is the way in which the “story” is told. During the story, I was very annoyed because we kept jumping from character to character and yet most of these characters didn’t ever connect, and the few that did didn’t do so until about halfway through the story. In a way, looking back, it kind of reminds me of a first-person shooter where you meet a lot of different characters, sometimes more than once, and get different bits of story that help with worldbuilding but the only thing that really ties them all together is you. Except this didn’t play out as a choose your own adventure novel and that is the only time in which I can recall that this style of character hopping with little to nothing except the worlds to tie them together has ever really happened in books. Maybe it is wildly innovative and a way to pull gamers back into reading. Maybe the game and the book work better as a package deal. Not sure. 
For me, it missed the mark.  
If you find this review has piqued your interest, then be sure to take a look inside!

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