This cover text on this book promises much more of a novel of pursuit than the covers actually contain, but this is otherwise a reasonably interesting book. There's like a hundred pages--maybe more--of the sort of intra-family drama that ends with you not really liking anyone, but that's just setup for the things that happen toward the end of the novel. The climax is not some chase resolution, or even really external/violent action, but the members of the family getting their shit sorted out and being able to move on with their lives as they should be. Well, two of them, anyway: One has her dementia relapse after a temporary magic-tech reprieve, and the other is off-planet fighting a desperate war. There was a stretch where I was seriously thinking the character just back from the extraterrestrial war might turn out to be entirely delusional, but this is in fact a SF novel, so that didn't turn out to be the case.
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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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