I shouldn’t be surprised that I like to read quirky time travel science fiction with clever characters. After all there was the fun read of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy back in the day. So a very enjoyable one has been finished.
1) Prompt: Has a character who can fly - well they do take off and land in their time travel pod and someone has to set the coordinates and tell it to go! Saving Time by Jodi Taylor is the 2nd in a 4 part series. Don’t know why I jumped in on #2 but I’m going to keep going and not worry about reading the first one.
2) Prompt: Climate fiction. Well, this was certainly an epic tale and it up is not until near the end that you realize it is about the political, economic and societal situation we are living through now in the US. That makes sense when the author’s comments include that the idea came to him in 2016. Along the way though you get a small band of fem eco terrorists, King Arthur and his brother Sir Kay, Merlin, Lancelot and his sometimes lover Marlowe, dragons, floods, outsourced government and military, and on and on. I’m glad I stuck with it.
4) Prompt: Includes Latin American history. I say I don’t like romance novels but this one had strong and brave female characters. An interesting part was the participation of Latin American businesses in the Paris international exposition which is true.
5) Prompt: 300-400 pages long. These stories are staring to seem very similar but the twist here was focusing on Portugal’s position during WWII - both the good and evil. The US embassies role in preventing Jewish people from escaping the Nazi’s by delaying and denying exit Visas was also highlighted. And then there was the undeniable extreme bravery of the French resistance and partisans. Well plotted and written.
Lots of reading being done at your place. There are some interesting books there.
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The Librarian Spy looks interesting. When I finish the book I'm on, I may look for it. (:
ReplyDeleteSo glad you liked the one in Jodi Taylor's series. I have the first in the series on my Kindle, and will be reading it for the challenge. I don't want to read any more stream of consciousness writing for awhile, but had to smile at your review, because my real life Irish family kind of had a lot of drama and angst, so... LOL
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