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joachim@lire.boitam.eu

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I mostly read SF&F. My 2021, 2022

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Languages: fr, en.

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reviewed Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove …

Fun detective story on a space station

The ending was a bit messy and all that characterization felt a bit long, but I really enjoyed it!

Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Le Débat des Dames (Hardcover, french language, Les Moutons Électriques)

Profitant des querelles au sein de la famille ducale, les clans d’Ouromagne ont pris l’initiative …

Troisième volume qui remonte la moyenne de la trilogie.

Enfin, on voit où il voulait en venir ! Poussifs en diable, les deux premiers volumes m’avaient presque décourage de lire la fin du cycle. Mais j’ai persévéré et la récompense est audacieuse et on ne peut qu’être amusés qu’il l’ait prévue depuis le début.

reviewed Hild by Nicola Griffith (The Hild Sequence, #1)

Nicola Griffith: Hild (2013, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming …

Striking and vivid, a book that I didn’t know I was waiting for.

I’ll read the follow-up soon, but I don’t want to spoil it by binge-reading the whole (published) story

Adrian Tchaikovsky: House of Open Wounds (2023, Head of Zeus)

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …

Utterly engrossing

I really like how this world works, the magic, the gods, the attention to detail, and the way humans deal with all that. Also, a great cast of characters and a worthy conclusion.

Eiji Yoshikawa: Musashi (Paperback, 1993, Kodansha) No rating

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.

Miyamoto Musashi …

It's quite long, but I enjoy the pure serial-ness of the writing. It was published in a newspaper, so you had to keep the readers coming for more, I guess. Will anything will ever be resolved? I still have more than half the book to find out.

Samit Basu: Jinn-Bot of Shantiport (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tordotcom)

From international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure …

A solid, fun, imaginative and enjoyable book

Samit Basu doesn’t lack humour and imagination, which make this story very enjoyable. His previous books have mixed cultural and political elements of Indian life with fantasy and science fiction, enriching old westerner tropes and bringing new life to genres that have for too long been only explored by white dudes.

The heart of the story is the question: if you were living in a world menaced by sea rise and dominated by ultra rich factions, and if you found a magic lamp with a genie, what would you ask them? Of course you’d have first to find said magic lamp, and fight your way to keep it when the whole power structure wants it too. Luckily in this scenario you’d be a mischievous monkey robot with delusions of grandeur…