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Review: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy

The paperback is 283 pages. Genre is sci-fi, cli-fi and dystopian.

Blurb:

When the past lies buried beneath the waves, and the present hides behind a veneer, what power do we have over the future?

As high-flying energy magnate, Parsley Ringland, prepares for maternity leave, tragedy strikes. She passes out after a health complication and wakes up elsewhere. In the tower that sustained the life she had once known.

As she fights to protect herself and her unborn child, Parsley begins to fear for humanity itself. She is faced with an impossible dilemma. Does she keep the world in comforting darkness? Or expose a cruel truth that might destroy it?

Is it better to endure a terrible truth than to lounge inside a lie?

Review: Tomorrow’s Children, by Daniel Polansky

27 February 2024 | PB | 9781915202857 | £9.99/$18.99 |
Also available in ebook | Dystopian | Sci-Fi | Dark Fantasy

ABOUT THE BOOK

Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population.

Generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place of written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighbourhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with scrap metal spears and Molotov cocktails.

But something new has come to the Island, the first tourist in centuries, and this uneasy equilibrium is about to shatter…

TBR Pile Review: Ten Low, by Stark Holborn

Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Published: June 1, 2021 by Titan Books
ISBN: 9781789096620 (ISBN10: 1789096626)

Blurb

Ten Low is eking out a living at the universe’s edge. An ex-medic, ex-con, desperate to escape her memories of the war, she still hasn’t learnt that no good deed goes unpunished.

Attempting to atone for her sins, she pulls a teenage girl from a crashed lifecraft. But Gabriella Ortiz is no ordinary girl—she is a genetically-engineered super soldier and decorated General, part of the army that kept Ten prisoner. Worse, Ten realises the crash was an assassination attempt, and that someone wants Ortiz dead…

My Review

I’m on a bit of a space western kick at the moment after reading Frontier last week. I’m reading Hel’s Eight next.

There are spoilers below, don’t read if you don’t want to know what happens.

Summary: I enjoyed this one. going to read Hel’s Eight now, as soon as I finish writing this review.