I am guilty, I haven't gotten to any of them. I have been so behind on my book reading lately. I look forward to seeing what you think of Among Others. I have wanted to read it for a while now. I am going to have to follow you now!

Beth ^_^
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Oh my gosh I haven't read any of these.

@Beth - so many books so little time :-)

I just finished Everybody Sees the Ants a couple of weeks ago and finally was brave enough to try and post my thoughts this week. It's a YA Contemporary, which is a new genre for me, about bullying. It's fantastic in terms of characterization, but MAN OH MAN that story was tough for me to get through. I DO recommend it to people, though, because it is very relevant. (And WOW Daughter of Smoke & Bone - LOVED that one). I was also thinking of trying out Mechanique at some point relatively soon - I like the steampunk sound of it.

Thanks for sharing these! I'm always looking for new SF and being totally overwhelmed.

That said, Mieville...I mean, I'm not surprised, but I'm gonna need a while to recover from "Perdido Street Station," and I read that over a year ago.

@Laura - I agree with Mieville - I needed some time to recover from Kraken, and Embassytown was more of the same - fantastic world building ... but just too much, too complicated, too many characters, too much going on.