pickI rarely read anything where the action alone is enough to suck me in and keep me reading but this is so very engagingly written, you care about the characters immediately, so that finding out what's going to happen is a riveting enterprise, that and between the rocking amidst giant mechas, basically everyone having incredible tech-aided style and the evasion and fight scene choreography, the action itself is a hell of a ride. 1/?
What a chillingly evocative analogy. 😨
The mecha with resting bitch face. 👿😂
New (to me anyway) gender neutral significant other term alert!
It also happens to be awesome. 🥰
OMFG, Gus, you and Graymalkin deserve each other, you're both disasters! 😆
A classy move for the apocalypse. ☺️
7th from my #BirthdayHaul is the 1st in a new series by the author of A Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe. Jazz pianist Gus Kitko thought his last moments on Earth would be playing piano at a party & maybe kissing rockstar Ardent Violet, before the Vanguard, giant robots from dark space, destroyed the planet forever. Instead he‘s saved by a group of rebel mecha & joins the quest dedicated to saving humanity.
I‘m finding this book hard to read but I think it‘s less the story/writing and more just the sensory discomfort from seeing the other page of writing through the thin pages 🙃. I do love space operas and I do love mechas from space so I‘m hopeful it‘s worth the eye strain lol
My #LetterA recommendations are:
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
The #AlphabetGame is such a fun idea @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@rachelsbrittain
🫣 what is this?! Tricky covers to add a library barcode to day?
pick5/5
Earth's last chance to defeat the Vanguards has already failed, and all August Kitko can do is wait for the end of the world. When two Vanguards arrive and begin fighting each other, August decides to play along on the piano. His music calls to one of the Vanguards, and August learns that humanity might still have a fighting chance.
This is exactly the kind of sci-fi I love: mechs, mystery, and music in this very literal space opera.
June was a pretty rough reading month with my maternity leave ending, but I'm excited to get some more reading done in July.
#bookspin #doublebookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space | 
Very much dug the nod to the original meaning of robot.
Non-binary main character for the win! 1w
⚠️non-con body modification/body horror(?), suicidal ideation, depression 1w