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Shane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Shane Cottle
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October 2007
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"The Treasure of Carthage" isn't bad, but is the kind of book that just didn't quite work for me. The characters are fine (Berg's a little Bond-villainy but oh well), the historical tidbits are fine, the action is fine. However, I do think there's too ...more |
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"The Omega Factor" was fine if unspectacular. Nick and Kelsey are solid protagonists. Claire is a solid...anti-hero I guess? She was interesting but I'm not sure if we were really supposed to be rooting for her. Fuentes is a solid villain. The plot mov ...more |
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| "Carl's Doomsday Scenario" is a perfectly fine book, similar to the first: Carl and Princess Donut are good characters, there's some funny moments, lots of action happens. The world-building is pretty good, and there are more hints at stuff occurring ...more | |
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"Isles of the Emberdark" will not go down as my favorite Brandon Sanderson novel, and it is a bit of a soft "4", but I did like it overall. Dusk is a really good protagonist; I really liked his character, both who he was and the arc he undergoes. Vath ...more |
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| "Harry Potter and the Art of Spying" was a cute book that combines actual info about spying with an analysis of Harry Potter. A bit of an odd marriage, but it mostly worked. The spy info was interesting enough, although my personal favorite parts wer ...more | |
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| I am not a natural teen-romance reader, and it's still not my preferred genre, but I have recently started playing D&D so I thought I'd give this a try for a change of pace. This book was fine. More "drama" than "dungeons" for my taste, but there's s ...more | |
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| I am not a natural teen-romance reader, and it's still not my preferred genre, but I have recently started playing D&D so I thought I'd give this a try for a change of pace. This book was fine. More "drama" than "dungeons" for my taste, but there's s ...more | |
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In the very central core of this book is a pretty solid premise: a humorous allegory of high school as told by a dragon. I imagine after pitching that central premise to the editor, the editor said, "Okay. What else will be in this book?" And the auth ...more |
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"Red Rabbit" was a book that had potential but ultimately fell short. The characters are mostly fine; certainly dynamic although there's just too many of them (every location has a new group of spies and they all blur together). I did like Zaitzev, he ...more |
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| "The History of Rome book 33-39" cover a relatively short period in the early 2nd century BC, mostly about Rome's wars in Greece and Anatolia, plus some domestic squabbles (although a lot less of these than in books 1-5; I guess going out and conquer ...more | |
