Hrrrrm. This is a short-ish novel that wants to say big things. It's from 2016 and its future is already dated. The characters in it mostly aren't people I'm interested in spending time with, even the time it takes me to read a ~300 page novel. The conflict between magic and super-science is overblown and poorly resolved. The novel vacillates between twee and almost technophilic. Things are resolved by an action taken in the first half of the novel. And it still kinda sticks the landing. I've read novels I've resented reading, and I've started novels I couldn't finish or didn't want to, and this isn't either of those, but I can't really recommend it, either.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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