Reviews

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

dexychik's review

5.0

Beautiful

mermahoney's review

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

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

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 against another edition

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

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

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

rosie_reads_7's review

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

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

olegx's review

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.