What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
127
pages
Longest Book
3,576
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Average book length in
2023
418
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Sean’s
average rating for
2023
3.9
3.9
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.73
average
Sean’s first review of the year
liked it
Obviously the suspension of disbelief is important in fiction. Most of the science fiction novels I enjoy are based on a future that hasn't happened or around some technology that is as yet impossible.
The idea of orbital locking as posited in this story took a lot of getting my head over, though, and the fact that none of the characters seem to get how it works until it serves the plot for them to do so is a bit of a mark down, too. You can argue ...more
The idea of orbital locking as posited in this story took a lot of getting my head over, though, and the fact that none of the characters seem to get how it works until it serves the plot for them to do so is a bit of a mark down, too. You can argue ...more
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Sean’s last review of the year
liked it
I've enjoyed some of Robst's other works quite a lot. Here I've never seen the tournament turn into quidditch before, although many of the other things had been done. Shorter than my usual fanfic and without too much adult themes, this is a reasonably entertaining look into what might happen if the Goblins step up.
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