More Posts By Robin
Review: Wilder Girls – Rory Power
When a mysterious illness started spreading among the pupils and teachers of Raxter Boarding School for girls, the whole of the island was put under strict quarantine. When Hetty’s best friend goes missing, she is determined to find out what happened.
Review: The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
A man suffers from a rare genetic condition which causes him to spontaneously and involuntarily travel backwards or forwards in time.
Review: KliFi – Adriaan van Dis
In a future Netherlands, the government is controlled by climate denying populists, and Jákob Hemmelbahn witnesses the result of the government’s negligence when a storm washes away the houses of the less fortunate.
Review: VAST Horizon – Fool & Scholar Productions
The Bifrost was meant to transport its passengers to a yet-to-be colonised solar system, but when Dr. Nolira Eck wakes up from stasis, the ship’s systems are malfunctioning and the rest of the crew has disappeared. Assisted by the ship’s AI, Nolira fights to survive and to find out what fate has befallen her crewmembers.
Review: Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas is a collection of six intertwined short stories spanning across different times, settings, genres and styles, sharing themes and references, forming a single tale told through six beginnings and six ends.
Review: Record of a Spaceborn Few – Becky Chambers
Part 3 of the Wayfarer Series – When the Earth became uninhabitable, what was left of humanity sought refuge on the ships of the Exodus Fleet. Born and raised in space, their descendants are having to face difficult choices in their turn.
Review: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars – Christopher Paolini
During her work as an exobiologist on a newly colonised planet, Kira Navárez makes a discovery which accidentally sets off an interplanetary war.
Review: The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
Part 1 of the Raven Cycle – Every year on St. Mark’s Eve, Blue Sargant accompanies her clairvoyant mother to a graveyard outside their town to watch a yearly procession of spirits. Since Blue is not clairvoyant herself, she normally cannot see these spirits. But this year is different.
Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things – Patrick Rothfuss
Spin-off from the Kingkiller Chronicles – Underneath the buildings of The University lies a vast maze of forgotten spaces that no one ever enters. No one, except a girl named Auri who has sought her refuge there and has made it her home. This story is about her.
Review: The City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty
Part 1 of the Daevabad Trilogy
Nahri, a shrewd young woman from Cairo, is unexpectedly plucked from her human life and ends up in an unknown world of magic and supernatural jinn. Meanwhile, Ali, a young jinn prince, finds himself in the midst of the political tensions of the royal capital.
Review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
Part one in the Wayfarer series – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet tells the stories of the crew of a wormhole-tunneling spaceship, The Wayfarer.
Review: Temeraire – Naomi Novik
Part 1 in the Temeraire Series – British navy captain William Lawrence captures a dragon egg from the French, and he and his dragons are pressed into service in the British aerial core to train for the war against Napoleon and the inevitable invasion of the British Isles…