Pandemic hell continued, as exemplified by the continued rereading, this time of Murderbot and zombie journalism books.
- Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan
- Spell Breaker by Charlie Holmberg
- Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
- Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Blindsight by Peter Watts- Feedback by Mira Grant
- Network Effect (Murderbot 5) by Martha Wells
- Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Crown of Thunder by Tochi Onyebuchi (continued into Dec)
- All Systems Red (novella)
- Feed by Mira Grant
- Deadline by Mira Grant
- Blackout by Mira Grant
Stand-outs:
Blindsight got knocked off the list not even a chapter in because I was not remotely in a mood to read something that started by talking about how its characters are bad people. I hear good things, and will revisit it some time, but… wasn’t feeling it then. Pass.
Three Parts Dead was fun! I guessed the final twist relatively early but that was on purpose – this was clearly a book where the big final reveal was left in the open as bait so the other twists and turns would catch you by surprise. Lots of interesting worldbuilding in this one, and a series I’d cheerfully read more of.
Feed remains my favorite zombie book, and I wanted to like Beasts Made of Night and Crown of Thunder but while Beasts Made of Night was interesting, Crown of Thunder got into some more meandering territory that wasn’t for me.
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