Fresh off our best of the year list, let's talk a bit more about Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shroud. A standalone survival horror science fiction story from the master biomancer himself, this book did not disappoint on any front. It’s all about learning to perceive reality in new and interesting ways. Also, it’s anti-capitalist, spooky as all…
Listen, if you haven’t already bought into The Philosopher Tyrants series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, I don’t know what you’re doing. We at QTL put both of those books as #1 for 2023 and 2024 respectively. Go out there, dig into City of Last Chances, gobble up House of Open Wounds, and set a vigil for…
Continue reading ➞ Days of Shattered Faith – Piecing It Back Together
There is a collection of authors that we here at the Quill To Live would consider our ride or dies. These are the authors that we keep tabs on because we don’t consider if we will read their latest book, it’s only a matter of when. In our continued celebration of QTL’s 10th anniversary, here…
Yeah, the cat’s already out of the bag. House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky, was The Quill to Live’s book of the year. But what the hell does that even mean? What makes the sequel so damn good? Well, strap in, it’s going to get messy. The Pallaseen’s march to dominate the world continues,…
Continue reading ➞ House of Open Wounds – A Festering Greatness
This year I have read a lot of books that feature revolutions. Adrian Tchaikovsky is no slouch when it comes to exploring this topic, but delivers a bigger punch than usual with his latest, Alien Clay. I immediately latched onto its premise, seeing it as a spiritual successor to Cage of Souls, a book that…
Do you know what is not a wise decision? Picking up an enormous ten-book series when you are a reviewer trying to get out weekly content. But as everyone, absolutely everyone, says: wisdom is for fools. So today, I am here to talk about Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shadows of the Apt, the first and largest series…
I am always a little unsure how to describe something like Service Model, as it is a book that lives more as a humorous opinion piece than a traditional story. The absurdism and commentary in Service Model add up to a fascinating 4th wall break that intentionally does away with the usual narrative barrier between…
Adrian Tchaikovsky is certainly on fire this year with three books, in three separate series, all coming out in a short period. How one man can have so many disparate interesting thoughts in the course of a single year is astounding. He even has a fourth book coming out in December, and we have multiple…
Ilmar is a city under occupation. The Pallaseen (known colloquially as the Pals) have patrolled the streets for three years after deposing the admittedly not well liked Duke. They are there to smooth out the rough edges Ilmar has accrued over its lifetime. Culture is being flattened under the direction of the Schools of Correctness.…
Continue reading ➞ City of Last Chances – Pallin’ Around With the Underground
We flipped a coin to determine who would get to review this and I said the quarter would get caught in a time paradox so here we are. Children of Memory is the third book in a series that Adrian Tchaikowsky keeps promising won’t have sequels (and I am very glad he wrote them despite…
Continue reading ➞ Children Of Memory – Spooky And Uplifting
