October Book Log

[astrogirl2]

This was a very odd-feeling month of reading, overall, for some reason. Too many books that somehow weren't quite what I wanted them to be or what I expected them to be, or something.

Comments

[jhall1]

Monstress continues to be fantastic. The trouble is that it's so complex and my memory is so rubbish these days, that the year or so between volumes is long enough for me to have forgotten most of what has happened previously, which makes it hard to follow. Also while the art is fantastic, I sometimes find it hard to work out quite what is going on in the action sequences. But the whole thing is so brilliant that these things only slightly mar my enjoyment.

I've not read The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, but the BBC did a radio dramatisation of it a couple of years ago, which I listened to and enjoyed. I can't remember much about it now, though. (See my comment above about my memory.)

[astrogirl2]

It's definitely not just you on Monstress. I really do kind of wish I'd saved it to read all at once when it's done, because I know I'm missing a lot with everything I forget between installments, but there's no way I can stop reading it now.

I'd actually read The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains before, but didn't remember much other than that I liked it, so I found it very much worth re-reading in illustrated form.

[jhall1]

When Monstress is finally completed, I think I'll have to read straight through the whole story from beginning to end. I'll probably still be confused in places, but hopefully far less so.