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Review – The Cure

N.T. Kova

The Cure is the second book in the Unbounded series, after The Change. I liked The Change, it was fast paced, action romance with an SFF premise. It had its issues, like the romantic interest being the “brooding brute” trope, but overall, fun and worthy of a quick read. The Cure, is a different story. One problem is that it suffers from being a sequel. The start of the book is full of exposition dumps. Lots of them. I believe this is done for the people who never read the first one. However, for the people who did read the…

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Review – The Change

N.T. Kova

I really enjoyed this book. It was such a fun read. High paced, action filled, and with a touch of romance. It had all the right ingredients to make me want to keep reading. The story starts with Erin, who suffers a terrible car crush and is burnt over most of her body. Although she should have died, she soon wakes up without a trace of the accident on her body. That’s how she discovers she is Unbounded, a nearly immortal being with fantastical abilities. Unfortunately for her, that means she has to abandon her old life and join a…

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Review – The Martian

N.T. Kova

I watched The Martian when it first came out in 2015 and really enjoyed the movie. When I recently brought it up in an online discussion, people started to say how I just have to read the book. Now, this is not uncommon for a movie based on a book, but I also heard good things about it, so I decided to give it a whirl. Boy, I’m glad I did. The Martian by Andy Weir is a fantastic read, everyone should definitely Read it! What surprised me the most is that despite having seen the movie and remembering it…

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Review – Infinity Wars

N.T. Kova

I loved Infinity’s End and I’m loving Infinity Wars. Military science fiction often gets a bad rep. However, this anthology shows that, just like most labels, it is woefully inadequate.  There are such diverse story themes in this anthology: economic inequalities, censorship, AI , and much, much more. Of course, not every story is a hit, but even those that I found a tad drawn out, were interesting and had good characters.  I think my favourite story so far (I’m about half way through) is Dear Sarah by Nancy Kress. We all like to imagine a future where benevolent aliens…

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Review – This is How You Lose the Time War

N.T. Kova

This book is magnificent. It is a tale of an unlikely connection through time and space between mortal enemies. The beautiful prose and the vague, drip by drip introduction to the world and its characters is what make this book work so well. Truly, I don’t want to say much more about the book because everything seems like either a spoiler or a gross mischaracterization. The language is what makes you get lost in this one. However, it is the way the world building is done that keeps you interested. A slow trickle, through hints and turn of phrases. No…

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Review – Octavia Gone

N.T. Kova

I never understood how people read “before bed”: an hour of reading in bed, then just put the book down, turn off the lights, and put your head on a pillow. If I were to do that, I’d be lying wide awake thinking about everything I just read and imagining what might happen next. Well, that was until I read Octavia Gone. Reading this book is the most relaxed I’ve ever felt reading a book.  It was quite tranquil to read about the slow paced, measured investigation done by a practically uninterested party. The pace picks up a bit towards…

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Review – The Forever War

N.T. Kova

What can I say? Read it! I mean, drop everything you’re doing and read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman . I can go on about the fantastic short writing style, the visceral subject matter, or the fact that I actually cried reading it, but all of those would be superficially inadequate reasons. This book is now my #1 by such a high margin that it’s sitting on top of mount Everest, while the other books in my list haven’t even gotten to base camp. Even if you don’t like sci-fi, even if you don’t like “war” books, even if…

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Review – Vorkosigan Saga

N.T. Kova

I’ve read the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold over 12 years ago and have recommended it to all my friends, some of whom took me up on it and loved it as well. This series is actually what got me back into reading after a long dry spell, where I would maybe read a book a year for school, maybe. What’s even more remarkable is that I read them in Russian. My reading speed in Russian was abhorrent, in the start of the series I think I read about 15 pages an hour, but the books were interesting enough…

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Review – I Still Dream

N.T. Kova

Read it! This is an interesting novel utilizing multiple time jumps and character views to explore the birth of an artificial intelligence. It starts in the early days of personal computing when most people didn’t own a computer and continues into the decades where basically everything is a computer. In each chapter, with each time jump, the novel deals with a new problem, a new life challenge; and as you see the problem play out, you also see the rise of AI and its ubiquity. It is easy to imagine nowadays how easy it would be for a program to…

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Review – Play to Live

N.T. Kova

Play to Live is the first book in a series called AlterWorld and I’d recommend you read it! It is a fun adventure full of high stakes and riveting challenges. The series is seven books long and a page turner throughout. I listened to these books in audio format and was entertained for multiple weeks of commutes and household chores. Not going to lie, I’ve even started to do more chores in order to continue listening to this book.  The combination of the writing style, the humour, and the exciting world keeps you engaged and engrossed. Again, Read it! The…

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