Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

The group voted to read the Science Fiction nominee Wanderers in November. The winner for this genre was Recursion. Have you read any of the other nominees for this award? Which have you read and what did you think? Which was your favorite?

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Additional nominees:
A Memory Called Empire
Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2)
Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5)
Exhalation: Stories
Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Gideon the Ninth
Here and Now and Then
Machines Like Me
One Word Kill
The City in the Middle of the Night
The Deep
The Future of Another Timeline
The Light Brigade
The Test
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3)
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse #8)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate

I read Recursion and thought it was pretty good. Not my favorite by this author, but I do read everything he writes.

The one I am interested in is The Test. It is a short novella so I might actually get to squeeze this one in!

I also read Recursion. I thought it was ok, but not quite as good as what I'd expect from Blake Crouch. I was bothered a bit by the repetition, but more so by some inconsistencies in the storyline. Still gave it 3 stars. If the inconsistencies didn't bother me so much, I might have pushed it up to 4 because there were parts that I really liked too. my review

I don't have any others that I'm really interested in.

Now that you mention that, Kristie I have to agree with you about the repetition. I remember too having to let some stuff go that didn't align correctly for me, but I couldn't figure it out with all the repetition so I just moved on.
I ended up rating it 5 stars, but I think I bumped it up because of the narrator ( I listened on audible). The narrator was excellent.

I've read:

A Memory Called Empire

Gideon the Ninth

Here and Now and Then

One Word Kill

The Future of Another Timeline

The Light Brigade

The Test

This Is How You Lose the Time War

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

and

Recursion

Vicki Willis wrote: "Now that you mention that, Kristie I have to agree with you about the repetition. I remember too having to let some stuff go that didn't align correctly for me, but I couldn't figure it out with al..."

From the spoiler in my review: (view spoiler)[ "Half of the time our MC, Barry, would remember his previous lives and not his current life, which made no sense and did not fit the story. The other half of the time he remembered his current life and not the previous one until the appropriate time on April 16th, which is what should have happened every time." (hide spoiler)] That's the part that really bothered me.

Maybe I would have preferred the audio for this one as well. I do think that some books are better in one format versus the other. I read this one on Kindle.

You've read quite a few, Deborah. Which was your favorite? Any that you really liked or didn't care for?

Kristie wrote: "You've read quite a few, Deborah. Which was your favorite? Any that you really liked or didn't care for?"

The 5 stars are Recursion and Here and Now and Then

The 4 stars are A Memory Called Empire and The Light Brigade and The Future of Another Timeline and One Word Kill (but I don't recommend it because the next two in the series aren't as good.)

I didn't care for This Is How You Lose the Time War and Gideon the Ninth and The Test.

Thanks for the tip on One Word Kill. It was one that I was curious about. Here and Now and Then is another that is an interesting concept to me. I'm hesitant though because I don't always love time travel. Inconsistencies often jump out at me.

This genre is not my cup of tea but I'd like to read Dark Age. I just need to read Iron Gold before. So many series to finish up ::sigh::