Fantasy haul

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Since I have read a lot since the last time I'll split by genre. Part one: Fantasy

Sam Hawke - City of LiesThis was sold to me as 'Agatha Christie channeled through Robin Hood' so it will surprise exactly no one that I picked it up and well...dissapointment is too strong a word but it wasn't quite what I had hoped for and not only because I want

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I really want to read the sequel to City of Lies and so hope that it picks up because then I can see the author turning in a favourite.

And I have just bought the sequel to the murder solving mages (plus some other books set in the same world. I'm not sure how connected they exactly are but the author also wrote heist fantasy in the same world, spies and vigilantes (I skipped the vigilantes but will try the rest).

And, wow, way to make it worse, audiobook XP
Really, I've gotten used to books doing the random foreign language phrases (while screaming internally quite excessively) but the accents in the audiobook really were Something Else.

wondering if she had a Soviet/Eastern Bloc ex-pat background
That's another possibility. But I also looked up some reviews of another of her books (The Gunpowder Plot but with Magic) and a complaint there boilt down to 'she really oversimplified the politics a lot' so perhaps it's also that combined with Christian background says Communism is evil...

October Man was so fun because I remember some of his concrete Twitter crowdsourcing when it came to some details and I really enjoy that, especially because I'm just reading another non-German author writes about Germany and it has Google translate German in a place that has a German place-name but could be anywhere...