sfbrief is a simple, fast website providing Short, high-quality and hand-curated reviews and content relating to science-fiction books. I make sure to include no spoilers in our reviews.

There are no ads on the website, but I do link out to books on Amazon with affiliate links. If you follow a link to Amazon and end up purchasing a book, I do receive a small payment; you do not pay more though! I update only when we have quality content to share.

While I try to read every book I post about, there are way too many quality science-fiction books around to be able to read them all. I do strive to ensure that our recommendations are accurate and I only recommend quality books.

This website is still being built, so there isn’t much content at the moment, but there is lots in the pipeline.

Ratings

You’ll find I’ve rated most books. These books I’ve read myself and they’re my personal rating for them. I try to use the full range, but I don’t typically put books on this site that are lower than 3 stars.

★★★★★ I think this is amazing and you should go read it now. Also, I think you’ll spend a lot of time thinking about it once you’ve read it, and most likely end up reading it multiple times. This is a book you cannot put down, cannot stop thinking about and changes the way you think. Not given lightly.

★★★★★ This book was a really enjoyable read. I think this is a “good” book. You’ll see some of the 5-star characteristics in here, like not being able to put it down or it changing the way you think a bit. The key one for me is I don’t really see myself re-reading 4-star books.

★★★★★ Still a good book, but missing something. Maybe it felt too long, or the writing wasn’t the best; but there are some positive characteristics and I’m still glad I read it.

★★★★★ Not really good. I feel like I wasted my time reading this book. Things like lots of grammatical errors, bad writing or a predictable plot. Maybe the book was even boring. I wouldn’t recommend it.

★★★★★ I really disliked this book. Something about it is bad. I wouldn’t waste your time. (as an aside, I doubt I’d put a book on this site with a single star).