In 2015, I decided to keep a record of what media I consumed, with a short record of my thoughts about each (one or two sentences only).
First up is the shortest list, all the books I read this year.
The complete 2015 review:
Ancillary justice (Ann Leckie)
Enjoyable, neat worldbuilding. Ending seemed to be setting up a more traditional sci-fi sequel though, which seemed a shame.
Time and again (Jack Finney)
Not particularly memorable, but fine otherwise.
The Beach (Alex Garland)
I was never entirely sure where it was going, and the ending didn’t really pull it together as much as it could.
Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch)
I don’t think I really cared about any of the characters. Felt kinda generic.
Wild (Cheryl Strayed)
Ending was a bit anticlimactic, but that’s more of an observation than a frustration.
Childhood’s End (Arthur C. Clarke)
A bit slow maybe. The ideas here might have been new and exciting at the time, but these days it’s hard to remember that.
Redshirts (John Scalzi)
The opposite of hard sci-fi. With that in mind this is maybe an unfair criticism, but a central conceit of the story makes no sense and that really frustrated me.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
Good page turner, shame it was so trope-heavy though.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson)
Also an engaging read, but this time the thing that annoyed me most was a heavy reliance on coincidences to push the narrative forwards.
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
Really good, would recommend. Satisfying exploration of the consequences of this form of time travel.