Enjoyable and whimsical fantasy story set in Japan by Phillipines based author Samantha Sotto Yambao.
A young woman runs a pawnshop for choices people regret with her father in Japan. One day her father disappears and a young man, seemingly by mistake, ends up in her pawnshop and helps her solve the mystery. Beautiful, light read. Many fun ideas, such as people who are waiting on a train, but those trains may take generations to arrive.
Bought on the Kobo platform.
Enjoyable 2013 debut novel by Yangsze Choo. Set in historic, what is now Malaysia, and following Malaya Chinese families into a parallel ghost world, intersecting with ours.
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A city, riddled with old magic and old deities, is occupied by a people saying they’re seeking perfection. The resistance is as much a reflection and continuation of pre-existing powerplays as it is aimed against the occupier. When will be the day to rise? Another great world building story by Tchaikovsky.
The prison at the end of the universe…. human evolution and science is at a dead end, the sun is changing and forcing rapid evolution everywhere else. This book made an impression on me, twisting multiple times and adding yet another layer to the world building and the story. A gripping story in a highly oppressive setting. I appreciate Tchaikovsky’s SF a lot.
A continent has been constructed from 4 parts by the gods, or were they aliens? Now the continent threatens to tear itself apart again. Unless the right people are found to feed the machine that keeps it all together.
A fantasy novel by Sharon Shinn, who has written many books that mostly don’t look appealing to me. This one was entertaining enough though.
A continent has been constructed from 4 parts by the gods, or were they aliens? Now the continent threatens to tear itself apart again. Unless the right people are found to feed the machine that keeps it all together.