by Yoon Ha Lee
This is one of those stories that afterwards lingers and makes you rethink how you see the world. It took me a while to get into the story but then it flew. Captain Kel Cheris is disgraced by unconventional tactics; her chance to redeem herself is to host the mind of long-dead tactician Shuos Jedao ...
Can I give this all the stars? No, only five? Okay, then. So I think that the lazy/sloppy world building reviews kept me from finishing this. I thought they were rational and well thought out arguments, and they make me think about how I approach and read books. And how others will appro...
I know I said I had hangups about one of the setups near the start of the book and it still seems odd to me, but overall this book is really good. Once I was past those first few chapters, I was pretty much glued to the book. Cheris is a fairly low-ranking infantry officer in the Hexarchy who is u...
Superb, high intensity plot with wildly interesting world building and compelling characters. This audiobook is great. I bought the sequel as soon as I finished it. Based on reviews I had read, I expected to be lost for a few chapters, but this was not the case. I was hooked from page one. Maybe ...
There are some books that demand your full attention and dedication to reading the monster, but they pay off in the end. They’ll never be books you rave about, but you’re glad you read them for one reason or another. (Aurora, 2312, etc.) And there are books like Ninefox Gambit. They demand full atte...
There are some books that demand your full attention and dedication to reading the monster, but they pay off in the end. They’ll never be books you rave about, but you’re glad you read them for one reason or another. (Aurora, 2312, etc.) And there are books like Ninefox Gambit. They demand full atte...
I genuinely hated this book when I started it. It drops you in the middle of some pretty intricate and confusing world-building, bombards you with jargon, and the rules of our reality just don't seem to apply despite the fact all the characters talk about math constantly. I would read two or three p...
Brilliant
“If the Fortress of Scattered Needles had fallen, she would need a way to crack its legendary defences, its shields of invariant ice.” Bang up to date with the 2016 debut SF novel from short story writer Yoon Ha Lee and.... it's a great piece of world-building but a bit of a slog. Lee gives a bravur...
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee This book is awesome. And I mean that in the formal sense of the word: my mind is officially blown.There is so much to Ninefox Gambit that it's hard to figure out where to start. The story takes place in a world governed by calendrical systems: in effect, the beliefs,...
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