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March 3, 2021

REVIEW: One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsarranged-marriage / dystopian / First-Person / Humor / Science Fiction / Time-Travel2 Comments

Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day. Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that’s sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time. I was the one who ended ... more >

February 27, 2021

REVIEW: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

JanineBook Reviews / C Reviews#ownvoices / aliens / bigotry / environmentalism / far future / LGBTQ / POC / Science Fiction / SF / Smugglers / students5 Comments

Dear Charlie Jane Anders, This book takes place on a January, a tidally locked planet, meaning that one side of the planet always faces the sun and on the other side it’s always dark. In the small temperate zone where night and day meet lies Xiosphant, a city of people ... more >

February 12, 2021

REVIEW: The Spaceship Next Door (Sorrow Falls Series, Book 1) by Gene Doucette

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsaliens / female friendship / Massachusetts / Science Fiction / Sorrow Falls series / spaceship / teenager9 Comments

When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only hope for survival Three years ago, a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts. It never opened its doors, and for all that time, the ... more >

January 20, 2021

JOINT REVIEW: Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviews / C+ ReviewsAfricanfuturism / child in jeopardy / Ghana / horror / loner / Mysterious powers / POC / POC author / Science Fiction / survivor / teen2 Comments

I’ve enjoyed a few of Nnedi Okorafor’s books in the past, particularly the Akata Witch series of YA novels, which take place in Nigeria. I liked her Hugo and Nebula-winning novella, Binti, too. So, when the ARC of her new novella, Remote Control, became available, I was eager to read ... more >

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December 23, 2020

What Janine is Reading: Two Books

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Android / Fantasy / Hong Kong based world / Jade Saga series / mafia / novella / POC / POC author / Reading lists / Science Fiction / The Murderbot Diaries / Wuxia9 Comments

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells This novella launched Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries series. These books have been raved about both here and at other review sites, my social media feeds, and by one of my real life friends. I’m late to the ... more >

October 31, 2020

REVIEW: Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / female friendship / female protagonists / female sexuality / LGBTQA / murder mystery / POC / POC author / Science Fiction / space opera / teacher / thief / VietnamNo Comments

Vân is a scholar from a poor background, eking out a living in the orbitals of the Scattered Pearls Belt as a tutor to a rich family, while hiding the illegal artificial mem-implant she manufactured as a student. Sunless Woods is a mindship and not just any mindship, but a ... more >

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