the calculating stars mary robinette kowal

Now with that rant out of the way, let’s actually take a look at this story. We’re all adults here or some semblance of at least, can we stop being so squeamish about sex! However, can we agree on one thing, pretty please? When we are writing what is meant to be an erotic scene, can we stop dancing around the subject and try to make it fit in with the overarching theme of the book! If I have to read about ‘ his fingers reaching the centre of my delight,’ or ‘He initiated my launch sequence’ one more time, I am going to have a catastrophic meltdown! It’s childish and distracting and the only times I was rudely pulled out of the story. Let me start by saying there is a lot to love about this book. Can’t say I regret it though – I tore through the book in 3-days. If I had known this one was yet again part of a series, I might have pushed it back up on the ‘to-read list’ but, here we are. Guess the next best option is Science fiction! I tried to switch that up by quickly grabbing a thriller, which in truth wasn’t much better, as you can read here. I decided to dive into it right now because I have been reading a lot of fantasy books recently. This is yet another book that I received in one of the more recent subscription boxes from the fabulous Chocolate and Book. Oh well – I guess reading more books isn’t exactly going to change anything but at least it means I get to fill my time with countless adventures. Jeez, is March really almost over already? I don’t know about you but I spend half my time wondering if it is still March 2020 and the other half I keep begging for time to slow down.

The calculating stars mary robinette kowal