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Quick Review: The Dead and the Rotten

Compared to the first two books, the way the writing style improved and how Marigold developed as a character continue to be impressive, but the epic story from the third book, while not forgotten, is pretty much set aside, this one once again depicting a heroic fantasy adventure. It’s not the one that Marigold initially […]

Quick Review: Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There

Despite ending by stating that “to change the world, we need to be unrealistic, unreasonable, and impossible”, this book‘s title is particularly fitting, as it depicts a far too realistic “utopia”. It tackles major problems like poverty, inequality, too much focus on work, especially of the wrong kind, or the systems that stifle progress, but […]

Quick Review: Ziua Victoriei (Victory Day)

This is a collection of short stories with fantasy elements that generally take place during the current invasion of Ukraine. The one exception, in terms of setting, is the first one, which is still presented from the point of view of a Ukrainian, but takes place in an alternate, dystopian reality, where Russia seems to […]

Quick Review: Deteriorare Garantata (Guaranteed Deterioration)

Note: There doesn’t seem to be an English edition, so I listed the Romanian title above and then translated it to English. The original French title is “Bon Pour La Casse: Les déraisons de l’obsolescence programmée”. The small size of this book makes it clear that it doesn’t go in depth, but it does a […]

Quick Review: The Whitestar Queen

I randomly picked this up for free at some point, but it’s not even worth that, because there’s still the cost of the time wasted reading it, in case you actually do. As such, its one saving grace is that the page count seems wrong, because it only took me about an hour to read […]