Children of Time was so good. I should really finish the series. Adding elements of horror, suspense, and heartbreak sound really awesome too. Great review on these 👏 👏 👏 🐶
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
Thanks Nym! I’m loving this guy. I’m on to the next one now, Doors of Eden (a stand-alone)
@badrad9226
11 ай бұрын
Hi Olive ❤ Interesting series my friend. I never heard of these series but now I’m intrigued! I loved hearing about these books 📚 Fantastic video 🙂
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
You’d probably like the second one best, considering the scary parts 😜
@badrad9226
11 ай бұрын
@@BookBlather absolutely 😈💕 I love the scary parts ❤️ bring all the scary recommendations
@wearblackclothes
10 ай бұрын
The first book made me like spiders. The 2nd book as to much like the first but it had a horror element to it that was resolved in a heartwarming way that i enjoyed. The last book dragged at times, around the 3rd time of reading the same thing i wanted the story to just make its point already. But following Miranda and it's attempt at human emotions resonated with me. When Miranda met miranda i was bawling my eyes out. And while i also liked it i didn't like how the ending left somethings unknown in a way that it was clearly meant for a sequel. Where the other 2 ended their stories. What ever comes from this series next I'll 100% read it. I hope however it stays on the optimistic side. All 3 books have these dark moments when things are bleak and hopeless but by the end it was worth the struggle or something came of it. It might come off cheesy if the power of love and friendship saves the universe but i also don't want more grimdark sci-fi were it turns out all the pain and struggle was for nothing because nothing matters and you're an idiot for hoping and caring.
@BookBlather
10 ай бұрын
Agree with all of it! I’m with you… I will definitely keep reading this series. I’m reading his stand-alone The Doors of Eden at the moment. It’s decent so far, but definitely not the Children of Time series.
@eden20111
Ай бұрын
the 3rd book was amazing imo. I was hooked from start to finish. I loved the twist at the end. The 4th book needs to focus on the Fleet finding the makers of the Engines. That's something I'm really looking forward to.
@wordfullyyours
11 ай бұрын
Good video. Children of Time is yet another book that's been on my TBR forever lol I've come to realize that I'm such a mood reader that there are books on my TBR that I may never get to. Unless I find the secret to immortality! 🤔
@BryanM.R.-wt9eb
11 ай бұрын
Well, the fountain of youth does lie in the mystical island realm of Florida, after all. (No kidding, I've read sixteenth and seventeenth century travelers' accounts referring to Florida as a unicorn-inhabited island. 🤪) Alternatively, the gene jocks might finally work out that telomere extension business that was all the chatter back when I was in school. But the important thing is that you would get to witness the death of the cosmos like a Stephen Baxter protagonist! And read ALL the books, of course. But then again, that might get tricky without sufficient EM radiation and baryonic matter. 😁
@wordfullyyours
11 ай бұрын
@@BryanM.R.-wt9eb I've been to the Fountain of Youth a few times. The water tastes pretty gross lol It's full of sulfur. It's a tourist trap in St. Augustine. (There's a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum there, too) I would love for them to figure out the telomere thing. People would still die. Just from other stuff, like cancer and getting run over by busses. They just wouldn't get old and die. Which, if you asked me, would be awesome. But, if at all possible, I would love to be there for the death of the universe. 🙂🚀🌌
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
@@BryanM.R.-wt9eb of course, you could still end up breaking your glasses, like the guy in that twilight zone episode, and still not be able to read them, even though you finally had “all the time in the world” to do so
@BryanM.R.-wt9eb
11 ай бұрын
@@BookBlather "It's not fair! There was time now!"
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
@@BryanM.R.-wt9eb 😂
@eden20111
Ай бұрын
I honestly loved Children of Memory. I was hooked frorm start to finish. I loved seeing all the species working together in harmony as they discover the remnants of the other ark ships. Now that all the ark ships have been discovered, its time to focus on the Fleet finding the makers of the Engines. Thats gonna be a deep read for sure
@BookBlather
Ай бұрын
@@eden20111 Yes, that would be great! It’s been a little while now, so I actually don’t remember…. We know that was the last of the ark ships? As long as he keeps putting them out, I will continue reading this series until the cows come home!
@tanner_uncut
6 ай бұрын
AMAZING SERIES... Adrian is a genius.
@BookBlather
6 ай бұрын
As long as he keeps writing them, I'll keep reading them! 😊
@thebookishbryants
11 ай бұрын
I have still not read this series. I will read the first one in January, though. Great reviews as usual!!
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
I hope you love it as much as I did, Scott!
@bookstalgic
10 ай бұрын
I’ve never heard of this series before, but you made it sound really interesting! Good to know that the first one can be read as a standalone so you don’t have to commit to a whole series if you just want to try it out. I think I will give it a try. Great review! 🐶 ✨
@BookBlather
10 ай бұрын
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing what you think!
@eriebeverly
11 ай бұрын
I think at various points Olive believed you were going to drop a book. I picked up a short story collection about AI, The Digital Aesthete, which has a Tchaikovsky story. It wasn't a favorite in the collection but it was still good.
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
She watches me like a hawk! Doesn’t trust me to do anything right. I have a long list of Tchaikovsky to read now, but I’m going to add this to the list…. I could be wrong, but I don’t think he wrote a lot of short stories.
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
I just looked that up… looks good.
@pleasereadyourbook
11 ай бұрын
Great video! I need to try this series out, thanks for sharing.
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for coming by! Definitely a series worth trying. have doubt you’d be hooked with the first book. If you do, let me know what you think!
@BryanM.R.-wt9eb
11 ай бұрын
This sounds like it should be a blast. I tried starting on the first one, but I'm having a tough time focusing on or enjoying much of anything at the moment. Anhedonia's a helluva drug, I guess -- except I sort of want to move to Australia to open a laundromat, so go figure. 🤪 Oh well, maybe I'll get to the books eventually. Thanks for the video. Hope you and Olive are well. 🐶
@wordfullyyours
11 ай бұрын
Who doesn't want to move to Australia? 🤷♂
@BryanM.R.-wt9eb
11 ай бұрын
@@wordfullyyours Australians. 😁
@wordfullyyours
11 ай бұрын
@@BryanM.R.-wt9eb That is a very good point lol
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
@@wordfullyyours 😂
@belafontelife9781
2 ай бұрын
It sucks saying “each book is less good as the last” but it’s so worthwhile even though it’s truth. Each book is special and includes new cast in a new Adventure.
@BookBlather
2 ай бұрын
Yep. As long as he keeps writing them, I’ll keep reading them. Gold might not be as good as platinum, but it’s still friggin gold!
@alex_unabridged
27 күн бұрын
Hey Dave & Olive! Great video! I just finished Children of Memory last night - my brain hurts, but in the best way 😂Well, that series was phenomenal - I completely agree with everything you talk about here! I liked Children of Memory a whole lot, but just a tiny bit less than Children of Ruin, which I liked just a tiny bit less than Children of Time. Children of Memory feels the most different of the three, and is the most difficult of to get my head around, in terms of the concepts discussed in it. I think I'd really benefit from a re-read of that one the most. I definitely enjoyed the mystery of it, and it felt a lot darker than the other two - Tchaikovsky still leans into the horror nicely, though it feels more psychological this time around. I did miss the emphasis on evolved species a little, but I absolutely loved the corvids - their conversations and philosophising was presented brilliantly! I love Tchaikovsky's writing style, humour, ideas - he's a brilliant storyteller, and fast becoming a favourite of mine. I really hope Tchaikovsky returns to this world at some point, any new entries in this series would be a day one read for me. Am eager to jump into some more of his stuff too - I've got The Doors of Eden in my Kindle library, and have got Shards of Earth, Cage of Souls and Dogs of War on audio all waiting for me so I'm spoiled for choice on where to go next!
@AlphaMoist
8 ай бұрын
Amazing series
@BookBlather
8 ай бұрын
Indeed!
@novelideea
11 ай бұрын
The beginning of CoT was SO GOOD! Exciting & really grabbed me. 🕷️ By the end I was just happy it was over- so many thousands of years with selfish, conniving people was too much for me.😂
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, I guess those on the ship got a little obnoxious, but hey, these stories wouldn’t be very interesting if everyone was good natured and well behaved, now would they? 😉
@novelideea
11 ай бұрын
@@BookBlather i liked the spiders and their interesting relationship between themselves & the AI of the scientist. 😅 I even liked the human angle, just not how many eons it took to get them together.
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
@@novelideea me too 😊
@bighardbooks770
10 ай бұрын
Interesting. So, Dave, can you appear on the Monday Night Live Show, this Monday? Greg will send you link via email . . . Hope so!
@BookBlather
10 ай бұрын
Absolutely! Thanks so much for the invite, Allen!
@bighardbooks770
10 ай бұрын
@@BookBlatherExcellent 🎉 I'll tell Greg 😊
@AlbertTheConjugator
11 ай бұрын
🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶
@BookBlather
11 ай бұрын
😊🐶
@lifequotient
9 ай бұрын
🐶
@BookBlather
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@JohnSeney
10 ай бұрын
Um is he any relation to that other, musical Tchaikovsky by any chance? 🐕
@BookBlather
10 ай бұрын
Really good question... I have no idea! I'll need to look that up!
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