I love to read and sometimes write. I'm active on fedi mostly as @tomasino@tilde.zone. I've been using Goodreads for the past bajillion years and will try to transition here. I run cosmic.voyage and a bunch of fun projects like @SolarpunkPrompts@podcast.tomasino.org
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In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker …
A really interesting steam-punk-ish world with vibrant characters. This is the start of a very cool series. Well paced and written.
Erotic massage, maybe, but this book clearly has no concept of Tantra.
A grieving Charlie Crosby, grandson of Tinkers protagonist George Washington Crosby, attempts to come to terms with the death of …
A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of …
This was a decent story, but much less dynamic and exciting than the other Rome series I'm reading. Cicero and Tiro are great characters, but this doesn't quite elevate itself past the common trappings of historic fiction.
Revised:
I gave this story another listen and it resonated much more. I'm moving it up a star!
Melanie Rawn's best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and …
I really thought this was going somewhere. I was wrong.
Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think …
An engaging guide to how Stoicism--the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius--can provide lessons for living in the modern …
They are a vicious international quartet of criminals known as "The Big Four". Number One was a brilliant Chinese, the …
Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling …
This story started so strong, but the middle was a mess of characters trelling each other how they weren't going to tell each other things. In the end it was false tension that didn't fit the narrative. The ending was decent, but felt rushed after all that waiting for nothing.
Fun, if simplistic.
