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Book Review Daughter of Egypt by Marie Benedict Release date: March 24th, 2026 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I received a complimentary ARC copy of Daughter of Egypt by Marie Benedict from Net Galley and St. Martin’s Press to read and give an honest review. …It’s a story about courage, defiance, and the fight to be remembered. If you love a good historical deep dive with a lot of heart, you’re going to…

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Book Review: If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop

Short stories offer you the chance to dip briefly into a world and then skip out so there's not much time for development; just straight in to the plot and off we go. But this is all exposition and very little action. Rather than let the plots develop naturally, there are just vast passages of infodumping. I'm sad to say this is a rather dreary and insipid collection of stories.

Some of the stories start out with an interesting premise but then just fizzle out. There's a reasonably good idea in "The Materiality of Emotions" which describes people buying little trinkets which induce emotions in them. Again, emotions as drugs is well-worn stuff, but this builds up momentum nicely before suddenly ending.

The highlight is "Spectrum" which has some delightful world-building but, like the others, it's rather derivative of older stories. A woman's space ship crashes on a strange planet and she tries to befriend the local hominids. You've almost certainly read it before.

Overall I found it underwhelming.

Many thanks to NetGalley for the review copy.

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Short stories offer you the chance to dip briefly into a world and then skip out so there's not much time for development; just straight in to the plot and off we go. But this is all exposition and very little action. Rather than let the plots develop…

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This was quite nice!

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