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Evan Cho rated Machine of Future Story
01 February 2026
If you vibe with the civic SF and sly humor of Saad Z. Hossain or the grounded futurism of Dilman Dila, this will land: policy rooms, bus routes, and prayerful maintenance orbit a machine that keeps n…
Jia Wen rated Shattered Target
31 January 2026
For readers who gravitate to corporate-conspiracy thrillers with psychological shading and minimal gore. Content notes: firearm violence, stalking menace, medical trauma references, fugue states, fina…
Harriet Bloom rated Machine of Future Story
28 January 2026
I wanted a fierce interrogation of prediction and consent, and instead I got a city slowly hypnotized by readouts while the book tells me to accept that drift. The Storyloom starts writing people into…
Diego Marin rated Beyond the Forest
25 January 2026
If your shelves hold Dan Radulescu's The Narrow Garrison and Anca Teodorescu's Snow Without Tracks, you might expect a leaner, more propulsive chronicle; Brown's book is heavier and dutiful, its inves…
Chen Guo rated The Forgotten River
24 January 2026
- Inventive river magic and memory interplay - Strong Reed Monk sequences - Academy politics drag long stretches - Too many neologisms without immediate grounding
Karim Haddad rated Beyond the House
20 January 2026
If you like Deirdre Madden's steady moral gaze and Tim Pears' patient attention to landscape, this will feel familiar. The braid of an Irish house in 1922 with a 1970s archive quest shares that reflec…
Devon Armitage rated Calls the Crimson Journey
20 January 2026
For readers who want wild country plus ethical knots, this delivers with clarity. - Glacial setting that feels lived-in - Clue chain that rewards attention - Occasional gear-detail glut - Ending favo…
Sienna McCrae rated Song of Gentle Journey
12 January 2026
Hand this to readers who like poetic YA with tech that feels analog, festival politics, and road-trip structures. The pacing wobbles in the middle port or two, and younger teens may miss some of the e…
Sloane Whitaker rated Shattered Target
10 January 2026
Mixed feelings: - Slick concept with an actuarial twist - Chilly prose that fits Mara - Convoluted last-third logistics - Corporate intrigue more engaging than club theatrics Worth a borrow if you li…
Priya Kulkarni rated Wild Hearts
10 January 2026
Lark's impulsive gamble and Cole's stoicism make sparks, but their dialogue too often circles the same beats, so the chemistry feels more engineered than earned.
Sorina Vale rated Beyond the Forest
10 January 2026
Brown is tracing more than a life. He is mapping how a resource becomes a myth and how fear becomes habit. The recurring images of bare shelves, herbarium drawers, and thawing streets point to memory …
Jamal Arroyo rated Shattered Hearts
08 January 2026
Quick take for suspense fans weighing this one. - Atmospheric mansion rules that escalate - Some repetitious clue circling - Strong EMT grounding, uneven antagonist logic - Best for readers who prefe…
Lucía Andrade rated Machine of Future Story
07 January 2026
Nara me pareció un personaje tierno y feroz a la vez, atrapada entre la compasión y la obediencia. Los ecos de Kojo y el niño bajo el anillo vial le dan carne a su conflicto, y la voz en segunda perso…
Lila Sorensen rated The Forgotten River
05 January 2026
Themes circle vengeance versus repair, with water as both weapon and witness. The book keeps worrying the line between memory and myth, asking what it means to defend a legacy "built on sandbars and p…
Marta Quinlan rated Calls the Crimson Journey
03 January 2026
I am thrilled by how Calls the Crimson Journey redraws what a mystery can be, turning a mountain range into an ethics lab and a confession booth! The book keeps asking whether it is easier to map bla…
Tomas Vega rated The Forgotten River
28 December 2025
The worldbuilding gleams: terraced Khir-Atar, oared banners on canals, ink-bound oaths, and a glass sorcery that sips sound until the city feels hushed. Yet the glossary-level density sometimes muddie…
Helena Moritz rated Shattered Hearts
14 December 2025
This is a suspense tale about containment and confession, about what dynasties lock away and what tides return to shore. The rule "Never answer the crimson phone" becomes a statement on inherited secr…
Marin Okoye rated Machine of Future Story
10 December 2025
The book's language is deliberately engineered: clipped clauses that mirror calibration routines, metaphors that feel sanded until the grain aligns. The structural choice to let the Storyloom's drafts…
Miguel Arce rated Shattered Target
01 December 2025
Chicago hums here: a West Loop loft, the Old Main Post Office with a range sunk beneath it, heat shimmering off the river, institutional corridors cooled to museum temps; the civic gloss sits next to …
Tasha Greer rated Wild Hearts
30 November 2025
Think of it as Leah Kincaid's Canyon Skies meets Ramon Ortega's Dust Country: the romance sits between backcountry aviation competence and small-town obligation. If you enjoy procedural detail, quiet…
Ruth Pennington rated Beyond the House
12 November 2025
Silence, inheritance, and the ethics of keeping names are the book's load-bearing themes, announced early with the vow of the orchard wall and repeated through tokens like the Foxford blanket and a pr…
Priya Dlamini rated The Forgotten River
09 November 2025
Esi is prickly, proud, and desperately loyal, and the nsu-lume twist of memory lets her grief argue back. Her mentorship under the Reed Monks complicates an already thorny sense of duty. Dialogues in…
Noor Alvarado rated Song of Gentle Journey
03 November 2025
It sings about consent and power: whose houses take the wind so schedules look tidy? Linn's choice is not heroism versus cowardice but stewardship versus performance, and that framing gives the story …
Kofi Armah rated Machine of Future Story
02 November 2025
A deft Ghana-future SF where a civic engine and a kind calibrator reshape New Accra with quiet tension and thorny choices.
Owen Radford rated Beyond the Forest
02 November 2025
As a portrait of a region under scarcity, this excels. The Mocanita snaking through spruce, the leather coats at checkpoints, the parallel markets along logging roads, the radio tech improvising broad…