Absolutely agreed. The narrative makes choices in a few places, and some of the second half seems kind of muddled.

That’s about where I started to lose interest, too. So much of the interesting world-building is in that first part, before it decides to turn into a heist novel.

I’m desperately trying to finish Neuromancer by William Gibson so I can move on to spooky season books. It’s not bad at all, I’m just not really clicking with it, so it’s been slow going.

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Finished Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles, a two-timeline mystery focusing on the unsolved murder of a member of a group of friends at Oxford. The author normally writes steamy romances, but this tastefully cut to black before anything got explicit. Something about the writing or story made it a very enjoyable, fast read; I haven’t devoured anything so quickly in ages.

Bingo squares: New Release; Disability Representation (hard); LGBTQIA+ Lead (hard); It’s About Time (hard); Mashup; Institutional; (alt) A Change in Perspective

Only adult one I can think of is Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams (cats). There’s a ton of these for kids, though; here’s a few I’ve read:

• Redwall series by Brian Jacques (forest critters; I found it repetitive after the first few, but ymmv)
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien (rats)
• Stewart Little by E.B. White (mouse)
• Charlotte’s Web by by E.B. White (pig)

Edit: Sorry, I derped on the scifi/fantasy/action aspect of the request; the E.B. White books don’t fall into that category.

Yeah, it definitely looks a bit low budget, but I can forgive that if it gets everything else right enough.

!trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone is excellent.

I think it’s still worth seeing if you like Caveat, especially since it seems to be a shared universe (the bunny has a brief cameo). I maybe just set my expectations too high going in.

I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can’t get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA’s site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.

I think my parents have a copy of this (or something that looks very similar)! Not sure anyone’s actually made anything from it, though. Really unique design.

Watched Oddity most recently. The writer/director’s previous movie, Caveat, had a super ridiculous premise, but some excellent tension at the end, so I was hoping Oddity would be a good evolution of that. Turned out to be kind of a mixed bag, imo, but I didn’t dislike it.