paige_floyd's reviews
38 reviews

A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

2.5

whilst I really liked what the story was trying to do, it just kept falling flat in all those areas.

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

i'm just upset this series is finished 

How to Do Life with a Chronic Illness: Reclaim Your Identity, Create Independence, and Find Your Way Forward by Pippa Stacey

informative

3.0

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.0

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury

inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.0

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Favourite Verse by Christopher Hurford

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

 Honestly, it was a whole trip reading this book. I can say, I've read nothing like it before and it's definitely gotten me obsessed with the science fiction genre in an entirely new light.

This book makes you question everything, but most of all, our perspective on extraterrestrial life; to value what we already have here on Earth and learn to look after it.

"He felt this interminable wave was an abstract view of the universe; one end connected to the endless past, the other to the endless future, and in the middle only the ups and downs of random chance-without life, without pattern, the peaks and valleys at different heights like uneven grains of sand, the whole curve like a one-dimensional desert made of all the grains of sand lined up in a row: lonely, desolate, so long that it was intolerable. You could follow it and go forward or backward as long as you liked, but you'd never find the end." - The Three-Body Problem