Book Reviews by Eitan

Before May A Desolation Called Peace Project Hail Mary A Master of Djinn May The Shattered Realm of Ardor Benn The Last Lies of Ardor Benn June Blindsight (reread) Echopraxia (reread) The Golem and the Djinni The House of Always The Hidden Palace July The Player of Games (reread) The Fork, the Witch and the Worm The City of Brass The Kingdom of Copper The Witness for the Dead The Empire of Gold A Psalm for the Wild-Built The Priory of the Orange Tree August The Sojourn A Radical Act of Free Magic Dune (reread) September Stories of Your Life and Others The Signal Flame Too Like the Lightning (reread) Seven Surrenders (reread) The Will to Battle (reread) Perhaps the Stars The Fall of Babel Light from Uncommon Stars October Invisible Sun Jade Legacy Dune: Messiah (reread) Watchmen (reread)   November Mr. Miracle (reread) The Curse of Chalion December Bring Up the Bodies Strange Adventures Rorschach The Kaiju Preservation Society One Day All This Will Be Yours The Traitor Baru Cormoran...

I received an ARC of this book from Tor in exchange for an honest review. My review will include spoilers for the previous books in the Terra Ignota series, but I’ll note which parts also include spoilers for this book. Terra Ignota is a monumental undertaking that grapples with huge questions—what does it mean to do evil? is creating a utopia possible, and can it be sustained? does human nature ever change? and perhaps most critically, why does the universe exists? All of this comes on top of a tremendously detailed world with its own byzantine legal system, tangled web of power brokers, and rapidly developing technology, including several intentional and occasionally very literal deus ex machinas. The previous books have presented some answers to those questions by revealing Mycroft Canner’s crimes and motivations, probing the ways in which Madame subverted or failed to subvert the Hive system, and offering up a variety of possible causes of war as the society of the 2450s moved to...