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Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

While perhaps not reaching the same heights as The Ministry for the Future (an all-time favorite of mine), Red Moon is another fantastic novel from Robinson—a story centered around the colonization of the
Moon and the tumultuous state of affairs on Earth—an adventure story concerned with ideas and systems and power. Highly recommended. 

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

5.0

Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives--And How We Break Free by Tricia Rose

5.0

Bloodless by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

4.0

The supernatural hoodoo is cranked up to 11 as Pendergast, along with some familiar friends, race against time (in more ways than one) to find out what is draining victims of all their blood. Also, D. B. Cooper is along for the ride. Another wide, genially loopy page turner in the long running series. 

The Devil by Name by Keith Rosson

4.0

Nobody's Hero by M.W. Craven

Loopier than the first book of the series. Fast-paced, globe-hopping, G-6 flying, knife-wielding, gun-toting, tea pouring, yippie-ky-A hoodoo. Bloody (literally) good fun. 

Notebook by Tom Cox

5.0

Genial and thoroughly entertaining snapshots from dozens of the writer’s collection of journals. 

Danger Street Vol. 1 by Tom King

4.0

Fearless by M.W. Craven

4.0

Suitably sarcastic and bloody. Part Jack Reacher. Part John Wick. Ben Koenig is a ghost, but don’t go after the people he loves.

The Collaborators by Michael Idov

4.0

Globe-hopping spy hoodoo. Car-chases, billions at stake, and theirs a same. There’s always a dame. Loopy but fun.