Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout – Much, much better than Obsidian. At
least the main love interest wasn't jerk all through it and a lot of things
started to make sense. The ending was bitter sweet. 3/5 stars
Farsighted by Emlyn Chand – I gave up after reading a third and it's a
rather short book. It's difficult to include visions in the plot when your main
character is blind and the way it was done just didn't work for me. I also
didn't care for the parental relationship and when the mystical stuff took
center stage I decided I'd had enough. 2/5 stars
Shadows by Jennifer L. Armentrout – I had no interest in reading this
one after finishing Obsidian, but the ending of Onyx made me change my mind. It
was rather cute, but dunno if I had the patience for it if it were a full book
instead of a novella. 3/5 stars
Hunter's Run by George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham – I
didn't like it. I kept hoping for something extraordinary, but it never
happened. I prefer to read about intelligent, victorious people rather than
uneducated brutes like that. 3/5 stars
Warriors (vol. 2) by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin – I'm
obviously not the target audience for this type of books. I liked Robert
Silverberg's story the best, although it wasn't great, but then again I've
always had a soft spot for Silverberg's prose. The one set in Romania annoyed
me to no end as they usually tend to do. The dog story made me want to cry. :( 3/5
stars
Snail on the Slope by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – I used to like the
Strugatsky brothers' prose, but this time I found it hard to get into it. It's
true I haven't read anything by them in a long time. I think I started reading
it 3 or 4 times over the summer. Once I decided to finish it and really got
into the story, the ideas were hallucinating good. 4/5 stars
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