After The Hidden City, which I loved, City of Night feels like kind of like a marking-time book - mostly because it's conveyed pretty early on that the entire movement of the story is Rath getting to the point three-quarters of the way through the book where he can write this letter:

Dear Sister ( Read more... )

Drabble roundup, part 2!

For oneechan19: ( Howl's Moving Castle/Young Wizards crossover: Howl as a YW!verse wizard )

So actually I think The Hidden City is my favorite Michelle West book so far! Maybe it's just that I've gotten used to her style, or maybe it was just kind of a relief to have just one plotline and set of characters to keep track of . . . or maybe it was just that I am primed to find stories about cold brooding amoral gentlemen who abruptly find ( Read more... )

Last week I finished Michelle West's The Sun Sword, which is the sixth and final book of the Sun Sword series, which I started in . . . March of last year, wow. Anyway, that means I can now write up the series as a whole!

The Sun Sword has approximately a million plot threads, only about 40% of which are actually resolved in the series. In some ( Read more... )

I am pretty sure most of my thoughts on Michelle West's The Riven Shield (fifth book in the Sun Sword series) are highly spoilery, so basically elspeth_vimes is the only one who will have interest in much of this entry. Suffice to say: the series is I think still getting stronger as it goes, and even though I occasionally get lost in all the politics of who is ( Read more... )

I just finished Michelle West's Sea of Sorrows; four books in, the series continues to focus amazingly on the ways in which women hold power, which is a thing I continue to really appreciate ( Read more... )

First things first: while I kind of suck at remembering birthdays in general (seriously, I will disappoint - in fact I just remembered a good friend whose birthday was four days ago that I forgot! BECAUSE I SUCK) there is one person's birthday that I always remember! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, cupenny! You and me know why this day is worthy of fireworks, and it's ( Read more... )

It's been several months since I read the first book in Michelle West's Sun Sword series and I was sort of worried I was going to have forgotten everything that happened by the time I finally got to the second one, but fortunately that does not seem to be the case!

It helps that Book 2, The Uncrowned King, focuses entirely on the North (though ( Read more... )

Michelle West's The Broken Crown is the first book in The Sun Sword, A Big Fat Fantasy Series. Cons: it has severalt of the flaws common to the Big Fat Fantasy Series. Pros: it has some merits that are not at all common to the Big Fat Fantasy Series. Also, said series is actually completed!

The flaws: First of all, there are a lot of ( Read more... )