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Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard

dexychik's review against another edition

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5.0

Beautiful

mermahoney's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.25

Great collection of stories, mostly from de Bodard's Xuya universe. The author's introduction and the story notes added a lot to the reading experience.

pocketsknight's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

rhodered's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

pshotts's review

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challenging mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

emtobiasz's review against another edition

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Love aliette de bodard, but her writing style is very demanding and I don’t have the attention span for it right now. Hoping to return to it later— I enjoyed the two stories I read.

jvilches's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

rosie_reads_7's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

qwerty88's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

olegx's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

После The Red Scholar's Wake я волновался, что уровни мелодрамы здесь просто не мои, но зря. Набор практически безупречных рассказов с интересным использованием культур и изобретательным ворлдбилдингом. И мелодрама работает хорошо. Огромное удовольствие получил.