Reading roundup

[hamsterwoman]

8. Lynn Flewelling, Traitor Moon (Nightrunners #3) -- I liked it! I don't have a whole lot more to say, which seems to be the case with these books, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. They are enjoyable, but they resonate with me less than I'd expected them to, and yet don't get me worked up in a "doing it wrong" way either. They are fun. I want

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[hamsterwoman]

I thought I remembered you making a similar comment about plot, and kept trying to remember where I had seen you writing about these books (since it didn't seem to be LJ/DW) until finally it occurred to me to check my emails from Goodreads. Mystery solved. XP

I'm not sure if I think the relative dearth of plot is a bad thing, given that I like the way he writes characters and world considerably more than plot, but it would be extra-great, of course, if the subsequent books had plots I liked as much as I like the rest of the package. I figured it might be a first book, world-establishing thing, but if the second book has the same issue, I guess not? (I've started it, but haven't gotten far enough to judge for myself yet)

I think I would be totally fine if these books dispensed with plot altogether and were just a series of scenes Peter and Nightingale doing magic lessons, stakeouts in the Jag, Peter and Leslie bantering and doing police things together (I so hope Leslie recovers to take a regular part in the procedings), and the lot of them hanging out awkwardly at the Folly...