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Tagged: Book review

Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy: Somehow Still Good Sci-Fi

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By Brandon Scott on Feb 24th, 2025

Exit Strategy Shouldn’t Work As A Sci-Fi Book I don’t understand how Murderbot (the book series) keeps getting away with this. Exit Strategy is a slog to read for so long, with exposition being thrown at you with a density I am unsure how anyone is expected to navigate. But, by the end of it,…

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Dark Harvest

It Came From The Archives! “Dark Harvest: A Scary Book That’ll Ruin Your Day”

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By Brandon Scott on Jan 29th, 2025

Dark Harvest is a novella from 2006 I oopsed into reading because I wanted something short and spooky for October—and then only finished it a few days ago. And now, having discovered that it’s getting a film adaptation that appears to be trapped in some bureaucratic/logistical hell and will come out eventually, it seemed a perfect book to give a review.

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Lucky Girl

Review: Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer by M. Rickert

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By Brandon Scott on Dec 16th, 2024

Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer (I’m shortening that to Lucky Girl) is a story that purports to be about Krampus. It’s not really. Its genre is horror—but it’s almost never scary. And the tagline about a person becoming a horror writer is a portal to so many other issues I’ll rant about later.

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Rogue Protocol

Rogue Protocol: Best Murderbot Book Yet

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By Brandon Scott on Nov 12th, 2024

I fear repetition in my review of Rouge Protocol. At this point, it’s clear that the series is a continuous stream of one-off adventures. SecUnit goes to a place—usually to find out the answer to something—and meets some humans and is then pushed into an action scenario where SecUnit has to save those humans.

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I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House

It Came From The Archives: “Book Review: I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House”

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By Brandon Scott on Nov 6th, 2024

I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House is a stark contrast to the first book in the “I Found Horror” series. It’s technically the second book, but was published first. I’m unsure of why it’s set up that way, except perhaps to give a better starting impression.

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The Luminous Dead

It Came From The Archives: “The Luminous Dead: A Polarizing Horror Descent”

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By Brandon Scott on Jul 15th, 2024

The Luminous Dead is perhaps one of the hardest reviews I’ve done in a long time. The nature of the work has clashed with my usual operations.

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All Systems Red

It Came From The Archives “All Systems Red: An Uneven First Book”

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By Brandon Scott on May 8th, 2024

The Murderbot Diaries is one of those series that is super popular and well-regarded, but it was not really on my radar until I went into this review for its first book, All Systems Red.

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Family Business

It Came From The Archives “Family Business: An Exploration Of Death”

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By Brandon Scott on Mar 18th, 2024

I had to wait a long time to get Family Business in hardcover—and I was a little disappointed when I did. Though it still contains some of the stronger elements that drew me to The Magnus Archives, including much-appreciated diversity in its characters, very creepy monsters, and a strong human understanding of its subject matter, Family Business never achieved the same level of scares as even the previous book, Thirteen Storeys.

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All Systems Red

All Systems Red: An Uneven First Book

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By Brandon Scott on Nov 20th, 2023

The Murderbot Diaries is one of those series that is super popular and well-regarded, but it was not really on my radar until I went into this review for its first book, All Systems Red.

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Tantalus Depths

It Came From The Archives! “Tantalus Depths: Solid Sci-Fi Horror”

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By Brandon Scott on Nov 15th, 2023

Tantalus Depths is the kind of book that the right audience will love. It’s a solid combination of cosmic horror, somewhat-hard science fiction, and has sprinkles of space epic. And perhaps its biggest triumph is how it balances those three things in an organic, unfolding way that never feels like a hard genre shift.

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I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House

Book Review: I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House

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By Brandon Scott on Nov 1st, 2023

I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House is a stark contrast to the first book in the “I Found Horror” series. It’s technically the second book, but was published first. I’m unsure of why it’s set up that way, except perhaps to give a better starting impression.

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I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls

Book Review: I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls

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By Brandon Scott on Oct 11th, 2023

I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls has two qualities that have continued to stand out to me even after some time since I read it. One: it has an extremely unwieldy name to put into an article. And two: it is one of the scariest, most unnerving, most creative pieces of horror fiction I’ve come across as a reader.

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