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My top read of the year was Velocity Weapon and it was super close between it and A Memory Called Empire. Was recency bias a factor? maybe. Both were good but the “OMG What Just Happened?“ factor of Velocity Weapon put it slightly over the top.
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I think I did pretty well this month. I absolutely devoured The Protectorate Series. I also finished a book I've been working on since February lol. #SeptemberWrapUp

I absolutely loved this and found it very hard to stop listening once I'd finished my daily commute. Sanda is very much a kickass heroine and I am very glad to have read the beginning of her epic journey. This also has lots of good, non gimmicky representation. I've immediately borrowed the second installment!

Gonna try this in July with science fiction.

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I am almost 50% in and this is just not holding my attention. I keep stopping and saying "who is she talking about???" There are too many storylines for my current brain, and when I am really only interested in 1 character it is so distracting to be yanked to what feels like a totally unrelated storyline.

I have slid into reading a lot of sci-fi lately. Have some great ones lined up for this month!

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#TBRPile 📚 “The first thing Sanda did after being resuscitated was vomit all over herself.”

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 288.
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I'm slowly, but surely working through my #summerreading stack. Halfway through Velocity Weapon, I really like it. I just love sci-fi 😍

Passable SF popcorn thriller.

Very standard. You have the AI ship, the interplanetary war, the intergalatic empire with mysterious technology and wormholes, etc.

So very entertaining and I liked it.

Does kinda call into question why these types of books are enjoyable. There's cartoon death. Cartoon PTSD. Cartoon war. Yet you flip the pages to find the resolution to the cliffhanger.

First in a trilogy.

You wake up. Part of your leg is missing. You're on a sentient enemy spaceship. And it's 230 years in the future.

Thus begins Velocity Weapon, the first in a new space opera series. At 533 pages it's quite the tale; there are multiple narratives and it's a slow burn to begin with, but a massive twist at about page 250 shifts things into high gear. Book 2 comes out this year and I'll be interested to see where the author takes the story.

Currently reading

Current commute listen, recommended by someone I follow here and/or on other social media and qualifies for #SpaceOperaSeptember which I‘ve basically just been using as a TBR generator 🤷🏻‍♀️

This had SUCH potential. I really wanted it to be just a BIT better, but i had to give it three 🌟‘s. It just didn‘t click emotionally for me. Too rushed. I really liked what it was trying to do though. Will read the sequel.

This was an absolute blast! Excitement from beginning to end.

Another new release deposited on my doorstep.

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