Booked Panda Reviews

  Book Review:   Alien Clay by  Adrian Tchaikovsky Release Date: Sep. 17, 2024    Genre: Sci-Fi Age Range: Adult Goodreads  Avg. Rating: 4.06 stars Humanity has traveled to the stars and found distant planets to inhabit or study. One such planet is Kiln, a world with an unhospitable yellow atmosphere that is toxic to humans. Due to this, it is seen to work better as a prison planet. There are secrets lurking in the wild spaces beyond the human bubble of safety though. Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study other life forms. With the Mandates stranglehold on scientific research back on Earth, this seemed like an impossible goal. However, with one errant phrase, he finds himself in the crosshairs of a crackdown. Now bound for the studies he always wanted, it doesn't seem like what it's cracked up to be. The first chapter does not give much for us to understand. We find our main character in a perilous situation and through the chapter he is slowly remembering how he g

    New Books Publishing Week of 16 September 2024 Welcome to this week's new book releases. I thought Fantasy was the big section this week, numbers-wise I suppose it is, but Sci-Fi are possibly the ones I'm most excited for. Exodus by Peter F. Hamilton Publication Date :  17 September 2024  Series :  The Archimedes Engine                                  Subjects :  Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy Description : Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars. Thousands of years later, the Centauri Cluster has flourished. The original settlers have evolved into advanced beings known

  Book Review: Lucy Undying by  Kiersten White Release Date: September 11, 2024  Genre: Horror Age Range: Adult Goodreads  Avg. Rating: 3.66 stars This is a story about a girl you might have read about. She was one of Dracula's first victims but that wasn't really the end of her story. Lucy Westenra has wandered the globe in search of Dracula and a reason for her existence. A young woman who never fit into her place in the world or understood her own self. Now in her new life, Lucy seeks to help those like her. This story is an urban historical fantasy. Due to this, we will speak of the atmosphere rather than world-building. Possibly I am not the best one to talk on this either. The settings will jump from London to Asain and journey the lands of Europe through the great wars until we reach modern America. Most of the scenes in the book take place in the same or similar indoor locations. Even still the way the scenes were written still left me able to picture them playing out.

    New Books Publishing Week of 09 September 2024 Welcome to this week's new book releases. This week seems to be the week of sequels and conclusions. There are a few stand-alones that I would love to get to soon. Somewhere Beyond the Sea  by TJ Klune Publication Date :  10 September 2024  Series :  Cerulean Chronicles Proceeded By :  The House in the Cerulean Sea                                    Subjects :  Cozy Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, LGBT Fiction, Contemporary Fantasy Fiction Description : A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything. Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live there. Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very s