...monthly...reading meme.
Last Flight (Dragon Age, #5)
Merciel, Liane
I absolutely TORE through this Dragon Age tie-in novel. It's about how the now-extinct GRIFFONS become extinct and it is a story of Garahel and the end of the fourth blight and I found it highly interesting and way compelling. Would make less than full sense to someone who does not have a backround in the Dragon Age world.
Things revealed in Last Flight had no impact on DAI which is both exciting and frustrating. WHEN. HOW. EXPLAIN MOAR.
Last First Snow (Craft Sequence #4)
Gladstone, Max *
I adore the Craft sequence still. I was pretty nervy coming into this book - all the previous books had been standalones having only the world in common but this one revisited characters from previous books! Books I last year or the year before that!
Previous novels included:
- bb Necromantic Lawyer's first case - asset divisions of a dead god. who was murdered.
- Magic Enviromentalism and water rights consulting in a city powered by wizardry
- Offshore tax havens when your currency is made of people's souls
Last First Snow is: Gentrification, property insurance, and the Occupy movement when your leader is a priest of dead gods and his opposing number is a walking talking skeleton wizard.
They're GREAT. I was worried for Temoc SO MUCH. SO MUCH SHIT WENT DOWN.
Deadpool, Vol. 1: Dead Presidents
Posehn, Brian
After reading Hawkeye vs. Deadpool I was game to add another Marvel writer to my list of comics people I read so I checked out Brian Posehn's firs work on Deadpool - Dead Presidents!
I liked it! It's a lot gorier than the Hawkeye side of things, but in a Kingsman kind of way, not Locke and Key.
A rogue magician raises all the presidents from the dead and they want to DESTROY AMERICA but shield decides it'd be a pretty poor showing to have the avengers do it so the hire Deadpool. Funtimes!
Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop
Fraction, Matt
THINGS DEVELOP in Sex Criminals land! Still interesting, well written, very pretty. Good, good, good.
The Curse of Chalion (Chalion, #1)
Bujold, Lois McMaster *
This was a comfort re-listen of the audiobook. 5/5 stars 4ever.
A Famine of Horses (Sir Robert Carey, #1)
Chisholm, P.F.
A Famine of Horses is really #onbrand for me - it's a historical murder mystery set on the English side of the border with Scotland in the early 1600s there is much stealing of cows and horses and things happen.
It was not utterly beyond measure, but it was reasonable fun.
This was read on a rec from my GPGC Humanities teacher when I was 12. We hang out socially now whenever I'm in Lake Charles which is surreal but awesome. I recced her Code Name Verity (ofc).
Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)
Cho, Zen *
This book has been getting SO MUCH HYPE. It did not live up to FIVE STAR HYPE for me, but it was a solid 3.75.
It's a REGENCY MAGIC AND POLITICS AND INTRIGUE story. With poc protags!
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Roach, Mary *
Also not QUITE as great as the hype, though it was WAY FUN. I just thought The Poisoner's Handbook was betterrrrrrrrr.
Lol just watch this turn into Oxford vs Cambridge Latin Course.
[OXFORD BEST, BTW]
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