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Will Sargent rated The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2: 5 stars
The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Hickman (The Black Monday Murders #2)
Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn't want to be found.
From JONATHAN HICKMAN (EAST OF WEST, Secret …
Will Sargent reviewed The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 1: All Hail, God Mammon by Jonathan Hickman (The Black Monday Murders #1)
Review of 'The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 1: All Hail, God Mammon' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Will Sargent reviewed The Unmade Bed by Stephen Marche
Cultural commentator Stephen Marche examines the status of male-female relations in the twenty-first century, with …
Review of 'The Unmade Bed' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
This is not a great book. It’s supposed to be a book about feminism and gender equality from the perspective of a married man, with his wife providing notes.
Instead, it’s a collection of magazine think pieces. And what I mean by that is that the author is more interested in his sentences and his soundbites than in his thesis. His chapters on patriarchy and fatherhood are solid, where he talks about money and jobs and status... but it goes downhill very quickly in his chapter on porn (Dworkin? Really? Male sexuality fundamentally about brutality and power?) and cribs from Christina Hoffman Summers on his son... and then collapses completely with his utterly banal observations on housework and standards of personal cleanliness.
At no point does he attempt to go out and talk to other men and try to get other perspectives. It’s him in a room, and whatever books …
This is not a great book. It’s supposed to be a book about feminism and gender equality from the perspective of a married man, with his wife providing notes.
Instead, it’s a collection of magazine think pieces. And what I mean by that is that the author is more interested in his sentences and his soundbites than in his thesis. His chapters on patriarchy and fatherhood are solid, where he talks about money and jobs and status... but it goes downhill very quickly in his chapter on porn (Dworkin? Really? Male sexuality fundamentally about brutality and power?) and cribs from Christina Hoffman Summers on his son... and then collapses completely with his utterly banal observations on housework and standards of personal cleanliness.
At no point does he attempt to go out and talk to other men and try to get other perspectives. It’s him in a room, and whatever books he can get. His wife’s footnotes are actually the best bit as they provide much needed relief to listening to this man’s voice.
Will Sargent reviewed Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith
Review of 'Land of the Beautiful Dead' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
I haven't finished this book yet, and I'm already writing a review. IT IS THAT GOOD.
YES, this is a romance novel. YES, it starts off with zombie cock. And somewhere down the line, the writing picks up a notch and starts digging into the tropes. Whether providing emotional support for complete assholes is really the best use of your time. The arguable nature of free will and utilitarianism. The emotive impact of architecture and gardening. Whether subtle is spelled with a "b".
And it works, because there's no way to expect what's on the next page. It could be anything.
But also zombie cock.
Will Sargent reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
I can’t get past the second person grammar and the stilted Edwardian diction. Aborted.
Review of 'Killing Gravity (The Voidwitch Saga)' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
Standard space opera. It's very much set up so that the protagonist has all the answers and superpowers needed to curb stomp everyone, so what's left is... not much.
Will Sargent reviewed Sex Criminals Vol. 4 by Matt Fraction
Review of 'Sex Criminals Vol. 4' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
WIDE WEINER.
Heu he he he.
Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the …
Review of 'Gods, monsters, and the lucky peach' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
This book is too short and the time switching is confusing, but I love that there's talk about money and economy and overall life priorities in this book. No fighting and punching, we're straight into powerplay business proposals. And I like the protagonist's reflexive cynicism.
Will Sargent reviewed The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
Review of 'The Only Harmless Great Thing' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
More of a prose poem than a story. I would have liked to have seen elephant culture and thought on its own, but adding the radium girls to it just made them a standin for everything else that western culture has fucked with.
Will Sargent rated Mindfulness and Hypnosis: 5 stars
Will Sargent rated Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol. 1: 4 stars
Will Sargent rated Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again: 3 stars
Will Sargent rated Fantastic Four: 4 stars
Will Sargent reviewed Semiosis (Semiosis Duology, #1) by Sue Burke
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival …
Review of 'Semiosis' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Good premise, some awkward writing
The story of settlers on another planet where the plant are intelligent (although still very much moving on plant scale) and are used to domesticating animals by drugging or addicting them. The plot really doesn’t get going until we begging to see the plants viewpoint, and the settlers are all essentially indistinguishable, but it’s great to see how negotiations, mutual respect and friendship evolve from repeated deals.