Welcome to the monthly check-in for the 2025 Key Word Reading Challenge. Let us know in the comments what you read this month!
November Key Words
Tale, Final, Feast, Bloom, Cliff, Wide, Memory, Always
A Few Book Recs
Welcome to the monthly check-in for the 2025 Key Word Reading Challenge. Let us know in the comments what you read this month!
I read The FINAL Ring by Marcia Blair (https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-final-ring.html)
Challenge Complete: November Key Words
Tale, Final, Feast, Bloom, Cliff, Wide, Memory, Always
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Set long after the second book, you now have humans, sentient arachnids, octopi, and the parasitic slime on the vessel, Skipper, on an expedition to find more of the lost ships that left earth millennia ago. What they find on the planet, Imir, defies all their expectations.
Dressed in human bodies, the symbiotic slime known as Miranda, the arachnids Portia and Fabian, Paul, the octopus, and two rather strange corvids, infiltrate what’s left of the humans who still survive. But the colony is dying. Their best bet seems to be Liff, who is somehow connected to what may be another life form.
The story moves around in time, so it took me awhile to understand what exactly was going on. Once I did, it became compulsive reading, as we, as well as the crew of the Skipper, learn who, or what, is controlling the colony. Its ending took me by surprise, yet it made perfect sense.
I eagerly look forward to the fourth book in the series, due for publication on March 17, 2026.