Lena’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2014)

Lena’s comments from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.

We are in trouble when they do.
*pushes optimism button to try try try

Or maybe they would be salvation.

Down the gravity well

The joke was that Ceres didn’t have laws—it had police.

it wouldn’t take much to start dropping rocks down the gravity wells.

The book had this way of making it all feel real. Something about the expressions. Kind of like frak, lol.

I wish I enjoyed it more. Maybe I’ll try again, it’s just that for every excellent casting choice there was an abismal one: Nagata looks NOTHING like she should.

The Targareans are back, if less attractive - https://youtu.be/0BkGpV5dKKo

In the Sight of Akresa by Ray Wood DNF
Skip. This sounds depressing AF.

Terminal by Lavie Tidhar ★★★☆☆
A cheap, lonely, sad trek through space to Mars.

The Cage by A.M. Dellamonica ★★★½☆
In the fight against violence and misogyny, lesbians take a stand to protect a baby werewolf.

Climbing completion you never heard of (no ropes!): https://youtu.be/ZTwEydiDIxQ

The End of Everything by Dale Bailey DNF
Skipping the suicide party story.

Breaking Water by Indrapramit Das DNF
Highly unpleasant story of misogyny, murder, and zombies. I quit very early on.

https://imgur.com/a/zttjfBM
Your Orisons May Be Recorded by Laurie Penny ★★★★☆
Part horror, part comedy, this Heaven-Is-A-Call-Center story could have been a five star gem. Next time, add a punchy ending!

The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley ★★★☆☆
A whimsical story of buildings in New York coming life on Valentines Day. It read like an old timey light hearted cartoon.

True enough, there are women but not well rounded ones. Besides, you read the best ones!

Finished early this time! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Reach ★★★½☆
A dying woman picks her time to finally leave the island and rejoin old friends.

I agree with you on The Raft. The postcoital toss to death was callus.

The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet ★★★½☆
This is the story of a writers descent into madness and how it spread to his editor. It was more fantastical than scary.

Grandma ★★★½☆
When grandma could not have children she went in search of the Necronomicon and had herself a passel. Oh, it’s never named in particular, just “those books,” but I know a chant to the Outer God when I hear it. Wouldn’t be the first time His name was called to aid impregnation. The ending was a question, (view spoiler)[did all of witchy grandma find a new host or did the God touched part of grandma find a new host? (hide spoiler)]

Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2) ★½☆☆☆
Non merry malevolence.

Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1) ★★☆☆☆
A short route of merry malevolence.

Uncle Otto’s Truck ★★★☆☆
A family history story with a little murder and a lot of truck.

The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly ★★★★½
Death by chocolate! A despotic treasonous king rules the land, but one brave baker and his wife will take their chance for a better world.

A Kiss With Teeth by Max Gladstone ★★★★☆
Happy reread! Well that was fun. Dracula has been trying to live the suburban life but is feeling the ol’seven year itch. How long can you pretend to be something you’re not?

Survivor Type ★★★★☆
Brutal story of a drug dealing surgeon forced into desperate measures - one body part at a time.