I loved the characters and the worldbuilding, and, while there aren't a ton of action sequences, the ones that are there are freakin' awesome. The sequel just came out, and I'm reading that now—and it seems to be just as good as the first so far.
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WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT / WHAT MOVES THE DEAD. 7/10, 7/10 These two Hugo-nominated novellas are both very compelling and I really enjoyed them as I was reading them. I've read a couple other things since I finished them, and I find myself struggling to remembering a ton about them.
That said, while that's not ideal, it's not always a big negative so long as you're enjoying them as you're reading them. I listened to the audiobook for both of them, narrated by Avi Roque, which I can definitely recommend as a good way to experience them.
SERVICE MODEL. 8/10 Really fun and fast read about AI, free will, and a very occasional murder. The audiobook is included in the Hugo voters packet, which I thought was pretty much perfectly narrated by the author.
THE MINISTRY OF TIME. 8/10 A compulsively readable time travel novel. It uses a very similar plot point as the John Varley story "Air Raid" (adapted to film as Millennium), but otherwise it felt like a very fresh take on time travel tropes.
I was hooked right from the start, and my interest never wavered. It's definitely one of the best debuts I've read in a long time. And hey, Barack Obama loved it too, if you need another reason to read it.
Piranesi -- the off-balance feeling for the first third of the book, when she gives you a thousand clues and none of them make any sense. It's mind-bending.
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