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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu ★★★★★ 3.5/5 Fiction: Sci Fi, Fantasy, Short Stories Should’ve followed my advice On completing Ken Liu’s previous collection of shorts, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, I had

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The Guest List

Lucy Foley ★★★★★ 3/5 Fiction: Crime, Murder Mystery Par for the course for the who-done-it genre To be accurate this is more of a who’s-been-done-for-and-by-whom rather than a traditional who-done-it.

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The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells ★★★★★ 3.5/5 Science Fiction: distant future, Robots A most unlikely protagonist that grows on you The central character in Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries series is a SecUnit—a part

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Seveneves

Neal Stephenson ★★★★★ 4/5 Science Fiction: near future, hard sci-fi Epic ‘hard’ science fiction, that is mostly satisfying At nearly 900 pages, Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves is a civilization ending and

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Version Control

Dexter Palmer ★★★★★ 4/5 Literary Science Fiction Literary SciFi Version Control is a book I thoroughly enjoyed—more so for Mr. Palmer’s exceptional literary writing than as science fiction. I picked

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The Themis Files trilogy

Sylvain Neuvel ★★★★★ 2.5/5 Science Fiction: aliens; giant robots Great first book; disappointing series overall If I were to rate the first book in the Themis Files Trilogy, Sleeping Giants,

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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides ★★★★★ 4.5/5 Fiction: Thriller, Murder Mystery Taut psychological murder mystery – great summer read! With each chapter of The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides winds up this thriller ever

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Dark Matter

Blake Crouch ★★★★★ 4/5 Fiction: Thriller, Sci-Fi This is my spoiler free review of the book Dark Matter. Please see this post (spoiler alert) for an explanation of the book’s science, premise

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A Man called Ove
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A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman (English translation: Henning Koch) ★★★★★ 5/5 Fiction: comedy, drama Charming, delightful and supremely satisfying five star read This has been my best fiction read this year—by far. How

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Artemis

Andy Weir ★★★★★ 4/5 Fiction: science fiction, crime, thriller Outstanding science detail, partially eclipsed by meh characters and writing Back in 2016, when I was between jobs, I read Andy

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The Secret Messenger
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The Secret Messenger

Mandy Robotham ★★★★★ 2.5/5 This was my first time winning an advanced reader’s copy (through a Goodreads giveaway). I derived a small thrill reading and reviewing a book before the

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