#six wakes

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My book haul from the friends of the library sale yesterday! Featuring my new little buddy I found at the thrift store the other week <3 All fortunately books I've read, am currently reading, or vaguely on my tbr - cross stitch book excepted, lol.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

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Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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Title: Six Wakes | Author: Mur Lafferty | Publisher: Orbit (2017)

[thisisstarfleet]

Recommend me some sci-fi fluff

I need a light and hopeful palate cleanser and I don’t have anything in my TBR that looks appropriate.  Recent completions are:

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (very good but too true to its 50s setting to be comfortable - I’ll be reading the sequels but I needed a break first)

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (well worth the read but there was a lot of hard stuff to get through - worth it in the end, a very strange and enjoyable book)

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty (almost DNF this one and I’m still not really sure how I feel about it, but it was pretty bleak and frustrating at times)

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (extremely gothic and dense, reading it was like digging a hole on the beach at high tide, and there was no satisfaction at the end - I’m sure it blew their minds in 1818 though)

Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis (just finished an hour ago and boy do i feel desolate - it was engaging for sure but did not leave me feeling hopeful and elevated)

I unfortunately did not space out the Murderbot books or Becky Chambers’ stuff so right now my TBR is Baru Cormorant book 3, the Lady Astronaut sequels, and a couple of things that don’t come out until later this year (TLT book 3, Monk and Robot book 2).  I could really use some suggestions for sci-fi/space opera or hope punk/solarpunk books that might help me feel uplifted before I dive back into the heavy stuff.  Possibly also some fantasy stuff, but I am just not feeling any epic deeds right now.  Character driven >> action driven for me.

Send me an ask or drop a comment!  Thanks

[potato-lord-but-not]

More canon lovers for the soul😳

[youthbookreview]

My Top 10

Thank you for the tag, @booksandtreesplease! I can do the tag now that 2020 is officially over (though none of these were late December reads in the end, haha). No photos, unfortunately, because I only have a few of these on-hand!

These are in no particular order:

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

I, Claudia by Mary McCoy

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Followers by Megan Angelo

Atomic Habits by James Clear

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Tagging anyone who feels like doing this, this was fun!

[diversereadingchallenge]

Title: Six Wakes

Author: Mur Lafferty

Prompt: 35 - a book with a latinx protagonist

Rating: 4/5 stars

Summary (from Amazon): Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat is one of seven, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it can awaken. And Maria isn't the only one to die recently...

Review: This was a fun, gripping thriller. It has a cool murder mystery with a sci-fi twist, and grapples with some interesting ethical questions. I liked Maria as well as some of the side characters, but I felt a few of the characters were underdeveloped. And while I enjoyed the build up of the mystery, I felt like the resolution was a bit weak. Overall, I would recommend to anyone who likes unique mysteries or sci-fi that deals with ethical dilemmas. 

[lesserjoke]

Book #172 of 2019:

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

A neat sci-fi murder mystery, sort of like Altered Carbon with less misogyny and more disciplined storytelling. In this setting, cloning is commonplace, and people are supposed to wake up in a new body with their recent memories intact if anything happens to a previous version. But the six crew members of a deep-space vessel have just come to life surrounded by their own slaughtered selves and unable to recall the past few decades that they’ve been in transit. The ship’s computer has been sabotaged so that no records are available and no further clones can be generated — yet there’s no one else on board.

The result is a tense and paranoid locked-room thriller, straight out of Agatha Christie by way of the 2007 film Sunshine. Everyone is harboring dangerous secrets, and with the outlawed technology of mind-hacking in the mix, no one is entirely above suspicion. As the astronauts race to solve their own murders and identify the killer in their midst, author Mur Lafferty spins out a fantastic tale of the sort of crimes that might be waiting for us in the future.

★★★★☆

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