Embassytown–China Mieville Review

 

See here for my review on LibraryThing.

Beyond that I will say a grounding in Linguistics would be wonderfully helpful here. Even so, one does clearly understand what happens.

I should also say that for a bit of the book I was afraid this would turn out to be a zombie are after us book. Thankfully, not so!  I have zero interest in enemies who are mindless. The Hosts are, even at their worst, definitely not mindless, despite Humans thinking they might be.

Very good alien vs human outlook story.

Four stars.

Red Seas Under Red Skies - Review

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

 

here

First part was difficult to read, as noted in review, but afterwards, well, what can I say but PIRATES!  Arrrrrr!