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Black Opera
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63(3)
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Published by Night Shade Books on May 01, 2012
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Strange Horizons
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Review Rating: 40
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The same magic that both the black and white operas achieve so effortlessly--the capture of their audience and its affections--is sadly lacking from this novel.
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The Night Circus
(Fantasy)
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60(2)
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Published by doubleday on September 13, 2011
First Published by Harvill Secker in 2011
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Strange Horizons
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Review Rating: 60
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The Night Circus relies for its effect on the romantic associations of its circus setting, and reaches constantly for a sense of wonder.
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Review Rating: 80
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Though it often reads like a short story inflated to novel length, there is a greater complexity to it, and a greater ambition, that I can't help but appreciate and value over Morgenstern's more cohesive, but less affecting, work.
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Strange Horizons
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Review Rating: 60
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It's admirable that Banks is trying to find new things to say about the Culture and new ways to expand the series's universe, but judging by Surface Detail, he hasn't yet figured out how to do so successfully.
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I find myself, therefore, unable to perform the reviewer's basic function, and give this novel my positive or negative reaction. I suspect that I won't be able to come to that conclusion before reading the sequel.
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Sleepless
(Science Fiction)
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80(3)
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Published by Ballantine Books on January 12, 2010
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Strange Horizons
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Review Rating: 60
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[Nevertheless it's flaws,] it is worth reading, and an almost effortless read to boot--Huston has the mystery writer's gift for dialogue and for moving the plot along.
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Under the Dome
(Horror)
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65(4)
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Published by Scribner on November 10, 2009
First Published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2009
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Pretty Monsters
(Young Adult Fantasy)
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70(2)
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Published by Viking Juvenile on October 02, 2008
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Strange Horizons
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Review Rating: 60
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The best stories in this collection are as fine a demonstration of Link's powers of invention and observation as anything she's ever written, while the worst give the impression of a writer who is holding herself back or trying a new direction that doesn't quite suit her.
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Review Rating: 40
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...the Grossbarts made the novel that bears their name one of the most viscerally unpleasant reading experiences I've had in some time.
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Riversend
(Fantasy)
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40(1)
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Published by Juno Books on January 26, 2009
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Strange Horizons
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Review Rating: 40
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If Amberlight and Riversend are feminist novels, they are no kind of feminism that I care for--a feminism that takes everything that's worst about patriarchy and proudly makes it its own.
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