Cav's Place

This book is by far one of her best. A bit too… stationary in the moments when you remember everything is told by Azriel to Jonathan and too… Christian-minded for my taste, but otherwise just great. And a lot of food for thought… “The purpose of life is to learn and to love.” Rating: 9/10

I had to struggle to read through the first half of the book. May be well written and I’m sure people into BDSM would love it, but such things put me off. The second half is completely different and I found myself lost in it. Not actually lost in the story, but in some of […]

Not as hard as Gravity Dreams, The Ethos Effect or Adiamante, but certainly just as deep. The thoughts are less spelled out and more included in the story. Great ideas and good story. Feel bad that it was the last SF book by Modesitt I could get my hands on… Rating: 9/10

As long as our translator was screaming at Romanians living abroad to vote for Romania (extremely annoying!), why would we expect something else from others? There will always be “political” votes at ESC… Finland deserved to win, no doubt about it. People still fail to notice that the name is EuroVISION. It’s a TV show, […]

This is “entry-level” Modesitt… Very light on the philosophical stuff, hardly any in the story itself, just the three “excerpts” and the tie-ins at the end about the different meanings of beauty. Good in itself, but not what I’m looking for in SF; I want concepts that really make me think hard, as in his […]