Caitlin Martin

Weird and incomplete

Revisado: 04-03-25

This feels like less than half a story, and very much an “everyone sucked” non-resolution.

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My absolute favorite book

Revisado: 03-31-25

This is my favorite listen, the perfect intersection of post apocalyptic and cozy read. I wish there was a sequel, I want to know what happens next!

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Lazy writing

Revisado: 10-17-21

This was kind of awful. Just one long action sequence really, with zero character development. I don't even think I remember the characters names, because it didn't matter. Big scary monsters. Raaaaah. Run away. Kill the bad monster. Monster too big. Run away more.

It wants to be Jurassic Park... but Jurassic Park it DECIDEDLY is not. Skip it.

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Loved this so much I went on a search for more

Revisado: 10-17-21

LitRPGs are great, but sometimes can get a little bogged down in the RPG part and forget the Lit part. Not so with this book. This was an immersive, realized world almost as I wish real life was (Could I please get a focus +3 buff for a few hours?). It started out pretty straightforward, as any tutorial might... and then it shifted and exploded into a kaleidoscope of personalities and motives and a sense of greater purpose that made me devour it.

I thought reading a book about a SALAMANDER was going to be weird. And it was... delightfully so. I want more. And I kind of want to play an open world RPG based on this.

MUST READ!

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Part 2 started, and I couldn't finish.

Revisado: 03-05-20

This is SUPPOSEDLY a novel about emerging artificial intelligence. The parts that ARE about that, are great.

That said, the author needlessly delves into romantic interludes between the main character and his wife, and later, with, of all people, a woman who is trying to rob him. These interludes are written as though the author has very, VERY little idea about what goes on inside women's heads, or even, what goes on inside MEN'S heads. About 15-20 minutes into Part II, and about 10 minutes into a nonsensical scene where the main character decides to cook dinner for the woman who was trying to rob him... I had to turn it off and search out a different audiobook.

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Fans of Star Trek will love this "first encounter"

Revisado: 01-25-19

This book reads like a Star Trek fan fic. I loved this book for it's suspense. I can ALMOST forgive it's major flaw.

What I did NOT love was how flimsy the female characters are. The book opens with an extremely harrowing experience by it's only female character (no seriously... while the aliens do have females, she is literally the ONLY human female character, and the story is told from the POV of the humans). The story then promptly switches to how much she wants to forge her own identity separate from her wealth, but goodness isn't the captain handsome? There is a vague attempt to make her interesting as an anthropologist, but it's clear from the outset that her purpose is to be the love interest of the captain, and once their love is established, her intelligence is rapidly reduced to "pretty rich girl" and she gets to pick out fancy dresses and fuss over third world poverty.

That said, it was an interesting portrayal of a first contact, and if the author had only left the romance out of it, it could have been a 5 star read, easily.

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If you don't mind being condescended to....

Revisado: 01-25-19

The author says it better than I can... the world is full of misinformation about pregnancy, and often a pregnant woman must sift through an endless barrage of colloquial wisdom, old wives tales, prejudices, and other less-than-factual information.

Unfortunately... I don't find this book helps in clearing a lot of that up. The author is a statistician, and her writing is just that... statistics. It's does nothing to alleviate the very real concerns of new mothers everywhere, and presents information in cold light shored up with statistics that I found were dubious at best and cherry picked at worst.

It feels more like an info graphic that she turned into a book.

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So worth it

Revisado: 09-28-17

This book was a delight. It's beautiful fantasy, and it's terrifying horror, and reads like a series of short stories, with echoes of well known fairy tales intertwined with new, terrible beasts. This is a cozy, read by the fire with a cup of cocoa type of book that feels nostalgic and fresh at the same time.

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Riding on Daddy's Coattails

Revisado: 09-28-17

I didn't realize this before I bought it, but the author is Dave Ramsey's daughter. She's just regurgitating everything her father has already published, except with more condescension. The amount of lamenting she does over her own financial picture (as a published author who appears on countless T.V. shows, by her own writings), its hard to believe she has ANY understanding of what it actually means to struggle with money.

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Chick Lit but laugh out loud funny

Revisado: 09-28-17

This book is chick-lit... but more specifically mom-lit. It is airy and of hardly any substance at all... but I still love it. It's relatable and funny.

My issue with it though, is that there's a certain deus-ex-machina to the ending that weakens the entire book, in my opinion. The main character digs herself a hole so big there's no way she could possibly get out... until she does (I'll spare you the spoilers).

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