Reading notes
What I've been reading.
Books I've finished, with a short synopsis and what I actually took away from each one.
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Radiant Star
The story is set on a star-less planet that is somehow important spiritually for different space cultures.
People have visions there, and sects are of course attracted and live...
Paladin of souls
We follow the queen-mother Ista. After the event of The Curse of Chalion.
She was Cursed for 25 years and now she is free. The thing though is that everybody thinks she is craz...
Ra
Magic exists as a science/engineering domain of humanity since its discovery in the 70s.
It obeys certain rules and there are still researches around it.
We follow, mainly, tw...
The curse of Chalion
We follow a noble soldier who's coming back to his land after having had a hard time on a galley in a foreign land.
He finds a job at a noble woman's house as the tutor of her ...
Children of Strife
The fourth instalment of the children of time series -- which is mostly about uplifting and different type of minds.
We follow people who have found a planet to terraform. The...
The man who saw seconds
A man who can see all the possible futures in the 5 seconds, intuitively, is living a nice life.
Until he isn't and is pursued by the police and then the whole US government, d...
Annie Bot
We follow a bot - a female bot that is owned by a man who's recovering from his break up.
The man decides to override the default settings so the bot can learn from the specif...
In ascension
A woman grew up in the netherlands. She had a father that used to be fisherman and then worked as a civil servant in water management that beat her. A mother mathematician that ...