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Witch KingBook

by Martha Wells, 2023

Who uses, recommends or left Witch King, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Tim Bray
Canadian software developer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications, formerly of Sun, Google and AWS; writes the long-running blog ongoing.
mixed

Witch King is really well-crafted. The combat scenes are explosive.

Batch review post 'Recent Sci-Fi'. He states near the top that he no longer puts Amazon commission links in his book posts: “Used to be I’d put Amazon links in when I mentioned books, and route a few commission bucks into my Amazon account. No longer.” He also writes that the characters 'just didn’t grab me the way the Murderbot cast does' and that 'this one didn’t work that well for me'.

2023-12-10·tbray.org ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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