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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 — 78 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
	Separation (An Ominous Book, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	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
	Diaspora (An Ominous Book, #4) 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
	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
	A Beginner’s Guide to Public Healthcare in Mexico really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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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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Run Like Hell

by Eira Brand (Goodreads Author)

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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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Following the scout phase, we h 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: Yes
Read: 29%

Following the scout phase, we have yet another dystopic futuristic thriller taking place in the United States. On this occasion, a Blade Runner inspired New York City where higher apartment floors are more desirable real estate, wood is a rare commodity, and corporations seem to print semi-synthetic cyborg humans to purposely cause overpopulation. The book hints early on the impoverished protagonist Raide has ill-fitting male face implants after a nasty brawl. Which hints the person has always self-identified as either female or genderfluid with a greater insinuated preference for using female spare parts.

This society uses two currencies: some kind of crypto dollar dubbed kay when handling larger sums. I kind of assume it's similar to how Indians refer large sums of rupees as lakhs to cut down the number of zeros due to inflation. The second currency seems inspired by China's touted social credit score. Realiability working jobs affects this number. For unexplained reasons ((view spoiler)), Raide's social credit score is abysmally bad. The early chapters seem to hint the character is truly unreliable after some hinted prior mishaps with smuggling gigs, while being too proud to work menial jobs to make ends meet.

I personally think the early chapters could have use a few more rounds of smoothing the edges because the book becomes too fixiated with the brutal action scenes while not explaining why Raide doesn't have other side jobs like scavenging. We do have a scene Raide beckons a restaurant for free food and shoplifts ramen, but no mention about Raide's acquaintances arguing Raide's poor finances are due to pride or laziness. I will make the caveat the bar scene somewhat includes this, although I feel it needed additional clarity. What I am getting is that during the later sections of the story, we get proven Raide is actually a highly reliable person at their official job and profoundly cares about their loved ones.

Another thing which is a personal pet peeve (other readers likely won't care) is that I never understood how could Raide survive so many raining bullets and endless danger without eating anything. Well, except for leftovers (that end up quickly barfed anyways) and two gifted cups of alcohol. The character hadn't eaten in two days, but Raide never shows signs of wooziness. I kept on anxiously waiting for a scene where Raide would eat at least 1 little moldy nutrition bar. Lest to say, Raide continues not eating anything at the 30%.

Once the action starts, the book becomes increasingly comfortable with this world and the writing quality improves. This is a brutal world where corp thugs can obliterate random children with no fear of suffering from terrorism charges. Nuclear single families continue oddly being the norm. As a result of extreme uncontrolled overpopulation, most people are poor and there is this clearly nihilist worldview where life isn't considered valuable. The book thought these worldbuilding elements quite well and the attitudes of people about the low value of life makes sense.

By the time the book reaches its 30% point, we are now starting to get some answers about Raide's situation, their relationship to friends, and the mess they got themselves into out of loyalty to a childhood friend. Readers that like the aforementioned dystopia oligarch cyberpunk societies intertwined with oodles of gorey violence will certainly enjoy this thriller. I am voting yes for it to continue in the competition. ...more "

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Funeral y otros cuentos (Colección Voluta) (Spanish Edition)

by Giovanni Orozco

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

by Omar Ramirez Ramirez

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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 "

Mar 08, 2026 01:37PM · see review

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