A French mystery story, translated of course, of the rascal Arsène Lupin and his confrontations with a schoolboy who is matching wits with him, trying to solve the great mystery.
Breq, formerly a starship, is on a quest. Good story, will read the sequels. I am still confused about who is male and who is female. Or maybe it doesn't matter.
Imperial Radch #3. Well, the third book. I found some very funny humour, some confusing stuff. Must be my old age. My favorite character was Translator Zeiat.
A complicated tale of political machinations that takes place in the Ancillary universe. It starts out with Ingray trying to retrieve a thief from a prison planet to help her in a plot to impress her mother, but things rapidly go awry.
Quote:
"Well," observed Ingray, with a small hiccup, " but I didn't get any sea worms."
"Not everyone can be as lucky as I am," Tic agreed. (pg. 429)
I don't know if this is gonna be a series, if so, it is the first one volume. Anyway, the narrator is a big rock, recounting the adventures of Eolo, who is aide to Lord Marat.
I like it a lot, I'd read the next no problemo.
Quote:
"I'll have to kill them both, then," she said, her voice slightly exasperated, as though she had just been presented with a minor, unexpected chore. -- pg. 338
I think I understand more of this book than the first two. I think that I shall have to read them over!
In a rough search I found that the word "coffee" is used fifty-nine times. The word "tea" is used a lot too, but I couldn't make an accurate count.
Interesting book about names. I've heard the author speak on the radio and television so many times that I read the book in the author's voice. And I think I've heard a lot of this material before.
A Liaden Universe novel. I found the romance lame. Spy Val Con and mercenary Miri Robertson eventually team up to fight their common enemies. Good story...except for that romance!
(Theo Waitley, #1; Liaden Universe, #12)
Clumsy teen Theo goes on a trip with her mother, meets new people, and expands her horizons. I liked this book very very much!!
I really did not enjoy reading this book until the second half or so. And it really is a "...fun if high-body-count story involving a long game of cat-and-mouse between two very different personalities. "(Yoon Ha Lee in The Book Smugglers blog Posted on June 16, 2016)
A writer of scripts has an affair with Princess Diana. Some charactors continue from "The Deal".
QUOTE:
Rivera was sitting in one of the Edwardian armchairs, his feet up on the table, smoking. I asked him his advice. "Go and take," he said. "You think I can?" "Sure. She's beautiful. She will drive you crazy. What can you do?"
QUOTE:
"What are we supposed to do, Rivera?" "Suffer." --pg. 48.