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The Other Valley

Scott Alexander Howard

Start date: March 1, 2025

Finish date: March 31, 2025

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Mar 28, 2025 Dawn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: can-lit, read-2025, science-fiction

I finished this book that I wasn't originally planning on reading at all, and I loved it. There was a small moment at the beginning of part two where I thought it was going to turn mediocre, but I ended up just as interested in the second part as the first.

I think it leaves a lot unanswered. I have this lingering idea that there was a bigger plan set in motion somehow, and it may not have turned out exactly as it was supposed to, but all these events in the story weren't necessarily random.

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Jan 26, 2025 Cheryl rated it it was ok · review of another edition

March group read in Beyond Reality.

Ugh. So much potential. But imo it wasn't good literature, or good speculative fiction. I mean, I can't imagine liking it if I were looking for a mainstream work, because I didn't care about the characters and I didn't appreciate the writing, and the premise is too SF. I didn't find even one passage to mark as insightful or interesting.

Otoh, reading it as spec. fic. was even worse, imo, because nothing was really speculated. There's still too much use of alcoho ...more

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