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Will Sargent

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I like books.

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Carole Maurel: Luisa: Now and Then (Paperback, 2018) 3 stars

At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self in this sensitive, bold story about self-acceptance and …

Review of 'Luisa: Now and Then' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

I had a hard time with this book. On one hand, I like the message, but I couldn’t identify with the character at all. Seriously, your younger self comes to visit and after establishing that it’s really you, the first thing you do is start belittling her fashion choices and yelling at her?

It just hurt to read. And the thrust of the book went somewhere other than where I would have thought.

"A science-fiction series that asks the age-old question, "What would you risk for a chance …

Review of 'The infinite loop' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

At some point the plot just dissolved along with causality. I couldn’t tell what had happened but it there’s a lot of dramatic poses where Love conquers Time because Reasons and tolerance of relationships between a woman and a temporal anomaly that looks female and then... fighting?

"Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story …

Review of 'Book of M' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

Sort of like Station Eleven or The Stand or... we’ll, any number of forgettable post apocalyptic stories. Here, people forget things. They also lose their shadows. Then hilarity ensues.

I just didn’t care. The personalities were strong enough or distinctive enough to hold things together, and the basic plot is a road trip.