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I read widely and in most genres but romance and westerns. Here you'll find my reviews since 2007, with a few reviews of previously read books as well.
In 2012, I completed an "authors of the world" challenge, reading a book for every country (and a few other entities) by someone who'd lived there for at least two years. I expect to tag these books by challenge and country in the near future. I'm still refining my list by adding books that better meet my challenge criteria.
Ventus
Ventus suffers from poor editing. This is all the more disappointing because it could have been wonderful rather than merely good. The editing problems range from minor (repeated descriptors, sentences that should be rearranged, action discontinuity) to major (without giving too much away, I'll just say that the idea that Armiger has no DNA is nonsensical in the context provided by the story), but all could have been addressed easily to make this a much better piece of writing. I enjoyed Ventus from the perspective of its worldbuilding, and as in some of Brin's novels, I enjoyed learning about the civilization through offhand comments and inference rather than direct exposition.