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June 25, 2026

REVIEW: Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanimals / Fantasy / Fiction / futuristic / mystery / noir / Science Fiction / social commentary / social justice2 Comments

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Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans. In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving ... more >

May 5, 2026

REVIEW: Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries 8) by Martha Wells

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsArtificial Intelligence / First-Person / futuristic / robots / Sci-fi / self discovery / The Murderbot Diaries13 Comments

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Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch ... more >

Image of a security unit/robot in a humanoid shape crouching in wait on an alien planet in a kind of jungle
November 14, 2023

REVIEW: System Collapse by Martha Wells

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / colonization / corporation / First-Person / futuristic / robots / Sci-fi / self discovery / The Murderbot Diaries9 Comments

Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse. Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot ... more >

April 28, 2021

REVIEW: Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries 6) by Martha Wells

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / First-Person / futuristic / murder-investigation / robots / Sci-fi / self discovery / The Murderbot Diaries9 Comments

The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one ... more >

January 8, 2021

REVIEW: Domesticating Dragons by Dan Koboldt

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArizona / Conspiracy / dragons / First-Person / futuristic / genetics / thrillerComments Off on REVIEW: Domesticating Dragons by Dan Koboldt

Noah Parker, a newly minted Ph.D., is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He’s eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian’s feature product: living, breathing dragons. Although highly specialized dragons have been ... more >

July 14, 2020

REVIEW: The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAfrican American / Agent/Spies/Undercover / Artificial Intelligence / Asian hero / cats / dystopian / futuristic / government surveillance / multicultural romance / novella / POC / POC author5 Comments

Trinity Jordan leads a quiet, normal life: working from home for the Hive, a multifunctional government research center, and recovering from the incident that sent her into a tailspin. But the life she’s trying to rebuild is plagued by mishaps when Li Wei, her neighbor’s super sexy and super strange ... more >

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