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bazhsw
Posted 2016-12-22 12:13 PM (#14758 - in reply to #12253)
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Just got the last one in for the year that I think I will achieve and it's a good one. 'Day Boy' is a book about what is effectively a Vampire servant, running around doing jobs for Vampires during the day. Now YA and Vampires are not really my thing but this is quite an intelligent book. It's quite powerful and even though it is short it seems to pack quite a lot in it, there are undertones of love and tenderness, rage and hate, loss and belonging throughout. Day to day drudgery combines well with an ever present menace. Really enjoyed it and quite a pleasant surprise.

If I don't post again this year hope you all have a peaceful couple of weeks and get lots of books to read next year.

12 in 12 Challenge 2016

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Hugo winner) 2.5 / 5
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Nebula / Shirley Jackson winner) 4.5 / 5
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (BSFA / Locus SF winner) 3 / 5
Tales From Rugosa Coven by Sarah Avery (Mythopoeic winner) 4 / 5
Redshirts by John Scalzi (Hugo / Locus SF winner) 4 / 5
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill (August Derleth winner) 5 / 5
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (John Campbell winner) 4 / 5
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (British Fantasy Award winner) 4.5 / 5
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Locus Fantasy winner) 4 / 5
Influx by Daniel Suarez (Prometheus winner) 4.5 / 5
The Memory Garden by Mary Rickert (Locus First Novel winner) 3.5 / 5
A Turn Of Light by Julie Czerneda (Aurora winner) 1.5 / 5
The Book Of The Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison (Philip K. Dick winner) 4.5 / 5
Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Arthur C. Clarke winner) 5 / 5
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (Bram Stoker winner) 2.5 / 5
The New Mother by Eugene Fischer (Tiptree winner) 3.5 / 5
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Aurealis SF winner) 2.5 / 5
Day Boy by Trent Jamieson (Aurealis Fantasy / Aurealis Horror winner) 4 / 5

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