The first time I read this book, in the form of a borrowed ARC shamefully never returned, it totally blew my mind. I'd never come across something so compellingly atmospheric and unique, and I must have read it four or five times. Coming back to it now, certain elements look more familiar, in par...
A stand-alone SF book set in a post-Soviet Union Russia with a healthy dose of Russian myths.Elena Irinovna is an astrophysicist and she used to work in the U.S.S.R.'s space program. After the collapse of the Soviet government, the space program was ruthlessly cut down and Elena was one of the pe...
I wanted to love this book, I really did, but I am only giving it three stars instead of two because of the originality. I enjoyed some of it and hated other parts of it. I'm very frustrated with the author and can't believe it was written by an educated Western woman. But more on that later.The ...
2.5 stars I started out loving this book which was a real surprise as I didn't like the last one that much and was really on the fence about even reading further. My biggest complaint with the first one was how sexist it was both in a lack of women characters in general. Even the extras, those th...
Excellent gothic-sf set in the Winterstrike universe but earlier timewise. It was easier for me to get into this novel since I read first Winterstrike so I was familiar with haunt-space, kappas, the Matriarchies of Mars and the general setup of that universe. While Earth is mostly water and rela...