When I picked up the first Deathspeaker Codex novel by Sonya Bateman, it was because it was both cheap and short. The description interested me, and for that price I didn’t care if it turned out to suck. Not every story needs to be the next Expanse. Sometimes you just want some easy-to-digest urban fantasy. And that is what the Deathspeaker Codex offers.
Trail of Lightning was one of the novels nominated for a hugo this year. I probably would have run into it at some point, but since I was attending, I short-tracked it onto my reading list. Here’s my thoughts.
Renegade is, of course, a corny eighties show starring Lorenzo Lamas, but it is also a science fiction novel by Joel Shepherd. I’m going to talk about the latter today. Reviewing the other Renegade could be interesting as well, but maybe another time.
The Murderbot Diaries are a series of scifi novels by Martha Wells. They follow the fictional diaries of… a murderbot. Let’s have a look.