One Sentence Media Reviews
the first half of this season tells a rushed but lovely action story similar to (but not quite as brilliant as) season 1, and could have been great as a full season arc, but then instead the second half is entirely a bridge to rogue one and that’s it and it’s less wonderful (altho fun if you liked rogue one).
I’ve tried three times to get through this dumb netflix action thriller but the idiot plot repels me each time, like a magnet, so far I’m only at 45 minutes, but hopefully I stop trying.
Bujold (or “Boujyoung” as I like to call her) is back in full form for this latest entry in my never-ending crawl through the Vorkosigan saga, a quick comedy of manners style detective novel filled with great characters and light-hearted silliness.
Although very stylish and visually clever, Severance is just Lost for PMC mid-wits - red herrings and boring mysteries and clues dribbled out like cheese for rats in a maze.
This later book in the interminable Vorkosigan series is a competent, fun whodunnit novella wrapped in 200 pages of boring on either end.
Third book in this sci-fi apocalypse series is even bleaker and awful-er than the last to the point that it fully tips over into way too much territory, also it has an unsatisfying ending and desperately needed to be cut down to half its size.
Watts’s second entry in the Rifters series doesn’t quite have the same unique magnetic characters of the first (and maybe it has slightly too many characters in general) but what it lacks in story it makes up for in prediction and world - read this to wallow in a truly terrible future dystopia that feels extremely likely.