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Nancy Foster

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I live in Mexico and enjoy traveling and watching anime. Oh, and I also like cats. I write books in English and Spanish.

Soy autora Mexicana y Estadounidense, crecí en el DF pero aquí ando puebleando en un rancho. ¿Por qué? Pues, tiene buen clima y la comida está chida, así que ahí le ando dando átomos. Casi siempre reseño en Inglés, pero de vez en cuando también reseño en Español. ¡Saludos!

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	An Ominous Book (An Ominous Book, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragmented Fates (Fragmented Fates Duology, #1) by Nancy Foster (Goodreads Author), Орм (Illustrator) 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Exile (An Ominous Book, #3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Calamity (An Ominous Book, #5) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quandary (An Ominous Book, #6) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Savior on the Zenith (Fragmented Fates Duology, #2) by Nancy Foster (Goodreads Author), Орм (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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What milennials want is... anime

I just got home after seeing Perfect Blue in the cinema. Lots of people know I like Japanese anime. Instead of growing up reading the obligatory fantasy classics (except for LOTR and Narnia), I just like most Latin American milennials were exposed to Japanese anime.

Some anime in the 90s was dubbed over butchered US dubs. Samurai Pizza Cats did a nice job going even more abridged than the US versio

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La Rata con Thinner: Y otras anécdotas cotidianas de la sociedad latinoamericana (Spanish Edition)

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Nancy Foster said: " Currently read the first 8% sample.

Okay, I loved Omar's Mexican Urban romantasy. So for ages, I was curious about this (in)famous book that seems like a complete mockery of all things sane, erudite and socially acceptable. The mustard yellow cover ed Currently read the first 8% sample.

Okay, I loved Omar's Mexican Urban romantasy. So for ages, I was curious about this (in)famous book that seems like a complete mockery of all things sane, erudite and socially acceptable. The mustard yellow cover edition is a purposeful mockery of Mexican government elementary school textbooks.

Believe me, the real book is the polar opposite of the fanciful cover that seems more likely to belong in the repertoire of narrative literary fiction from a university press. This book is touted by people as some freakish creepypasta of the most outrageous Penthouse type 'trust me bro, this really happened' stories one would see on the randomest facebook or reddit posts.

I was hesitant to try this book because the reviews really love to bash it because the thinner infused rat story is in every sense of the word, gross. But Omar's writing is so inherently hilarious that tears were flowing from my eyes reading this story. This is the pulpiest trashiest of Mexican narrative fiction you'd ever read. Ironically, it feels like a real peek into the worldview of everyday working class Mexicans, with no concerns about offending peers. From the looks of it, some of the stories basing on the story chapter titles will certainly trigger me and I might skip them.

I don't know if Omar is aware of it, but his trashy bottom of the barrel book has become a part of Mexican culture and moved society so much that one of Mexico's most important corporations has integrated his work into a marketing campaign. Pinturas Comex has seriously released an ad promoting their thinner products promising no rats are included in their product. The fact such a trashy pulpy book ironically gone full circle and is being used a a societal standard of promoting Mexican products is inherently hilarious in the most Mexican of ways.

After sampling this first story and found it enjoyable despite being so gross (proof the author has an immense talent because comedy is such a difficult genre to write in), I will certainly purchase a copy of this book and read the remaining stories. At least for the first story, so far the book feels like a 4 star read. It's gross and ridiculous, but the book delivers what is promised.

Utter rubbish pulpy trash.

And somehow, I can't avoid enjoying it. ...more "

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Insider

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Nancy Foster said: " I am one of the judges of team Space Girls for the SPSFC5 contest. This review is my personal opinion. Officially, it is still in the running for the contest, pending any official team announcements.

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I believe this is my third I am one of the judges of team Space Girls for the SPSFC5 contest. This review is my personal opinion. Officially, it is still in the running for the contest, pending any official team announcements.

Status: Pending
Read: 34%

I believe this is my third book during the scouting phase where I am unsure whether to cut immediately or vote yes.

An unspecified time before the plot begins (although the book hints 150 years ago at the most), Earth entered some kind of dark era with massive species extinction events. Given this extinction affected food and animals, starvation forced a part of humanity to flee to various 'close enough' planets. So far, the book mentions New Palau, Rosgov and Britton. Rosgov was founded by agnostic Eastern European scientists and is probably the most prosperous of the three planets. The landscape is desertic but mostly livable. New Palau has pretty mountains but there is something about the atmosphere that causes horrible purple skin burns on seemingly everyone. Britton has not been explored yet outside of the people running it are violent thugs and the place is a lawless mess.

The book has 2 protagonists: Lin Yang and a guy named Cenric Smith. I quite liked Lin Yang because I sometimes see a bit of myself in her due to being a migrant. Like plenty of child migrants that end up in a place where society forces you to blend in, Lin excels in this task and everyone assumes she's a native born Earthian. However, her adoption registry is a forgery and her true name is Nadya. She was born on a spaceship alongside illegal Rosgov migrants and registered on Earth using the adoption loophole. Growing up in an apartment complex with illegals, she seemingly knows how to recognize them while living on the fence in between both societies. Things change when she is randomly selected for a highly prized 1st class corporate cop job that might pit her yearning for Earthian acceptance with her filial ties.

Cenric's story is less appealling. He's the coddled middle aged son of a higher up oligarch. Instead of getting a cushy job behind the scenes, he ends up getting lower prestige secretarial jobs in exchange for the rare change to visit Mars every few months for the mega corporation meeting events. Which in reality, seem more like Bunga Bunga parties with lots of partying and none of the working. The book never explains why his father's political image isn't tarnished by Cenric's unwanted presence in the big leagues. From his reckless impulsivity, his father would know he's addicted to some kind of drug called shav. A frenemy of Cenric lands him a new mystery job with full security clearance... only for him for the frenemy to die before telling him what he's planned to do.

Meanwhile, a violent faction of illegal migrants are targetting higher up corporate employees in coordinated terrorist attacks. Will the 3 plots convene?

For a debut, the book is certainly ambitious and occasionally reminded me of Vermillion Flames by Adam Fernandez and Icon-Violet by Simon Fay. The story is pretty intriguing, although I do feel it tends to spoonfeed information a tad bit too much at times. We occasionally get wikipedia summary background information of tertiary characters that only appear for 2 scenes. This bogged down the pace a lot. Which being a thriller, has a bit of genre expectations where every scene has to be critical to the plot. In this book's case, quite a bit of background information of Janitor #5 could have been cut in later editing rounds and just mention in passing dialogue or behavior the importance of the mini infodump. It becomes obvious plotwise New Palauians always have unsightly purple scars, so explaining a bit too much felt unneeded. Looking back, I am surprised this book is a thriller because it feels more like space opera. Readers that like their thrillers to not feel uber fast will however like this book's slower pace.

I still have around 12 more books to scout, but I will likely read this book further and make my vote within the following 6 weeks. ...more "

Dec 11, 2025 02:41PM · see review

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