This read like a pretty classic cyberpunk book except reframed in a Middle Eastern alien setting and with bugs instead of wetwiring. There were a lot of things about this book that I appreciated. The allegory. The fact that the protagonists were generally crappy people, but I cared about them anyway...
*NO RATING*Egalley thanks to Night Shade BooksI don't quite know what to think of this book. The synopsis felt like it was right up my alley, but in reality God's War left me confused and emotionally detached.I felt like this book simply wasn't for me, it needed a different type of reader. Bastard B...
Any world where you want a healthy population of roaches in your kitchen and bathroom is potentially interesting in the hands of a good writer. Fortunately, Kameron Hurley is pretty good, and Umayma is one of the more interesting future histories to appear in the last few years – insect-based techno...
On a hardscrabble alien world populated with what humanity becomes in the far future, a long holy war rages. Both sides have drafted all their men for so many generations that the societies left behind have become nearly matriarchal, populated by females, boys, and the very old or damaged men who s...
This is one of the more original science fiction works I've read in a while, with a thankfully non-western culture that slightly brings to mind George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails, although Hurley's invention is purely her own and striking. Brutal actions by these characters sometimes shocked...
Cross-posted on ReaderlingI have so deleted so many openings of this review. Objectively, if there is such a thing, this is probably a three-star outing - there's an ugly, badly handled time transition about a quarter of the way through the book, and the central mystery is maybe less mysterious and ...
I really liked this book, but wow was it harsh. So harsh. The main difficulty I had, and the reason why it's a low four and not higher, is that I really just didn't like any of the characters. I found them fascinating and compelling, deeply damaged as they were, but didn't have that someone to root ...
What a book! I loved it, I hated it, and then I loved it again. The main character of Nyx has no redeeming attributes whatsoever. She is godless, a whore, no loyalties, and a money grubber. Yet with all of those you are rooting for her and yet she comes out the good person. I'm still puzzled and daz...
Orson Scott Card talks a lot in his How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy about exposition, and about how science fiction and fantasy readers react to it with different expectations than non-genre readers. Roughly summarized, his point is that if you open a story with, "She mounted her graazchak,...
When men go of to war, women are supposed weep and worry. Not here. A book not about the war, but about those left behind, those who come back, people and cultures gutted and reduced. Whats startling is the choice not to make this mournful or sentimental - the story of waiting women - but instead th...
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