in which our heroine reads
Greetings, citizens! I'm broadcasting live from my sick couch, where I can report no fever heat wave but definite flurries of crumpled tissues. /o\ In all seriousness, I picked up a little cold and I am resentful to be missing Margaret Atwood at the Boston book festival and a Halloween party, among other things I had planned this weekend.
On the bright side, flying back from a wedding and the ensuing cold have given me plenty of time to read. I ordered a ton of books that have Yuletide fandoms and this was a Great Life Decision. Sorceror to the Crown by Zen Cho was as delightful as everyone promised! Prunella and her relentless I Grew Up in a Girls' School practicality! Zacharias and his long suffering everything! A narrative that looks British colonialism straight in the eye! DRAGONS!! It's often a sign of a good romance when I can't decide who I love more in the pairing. Every time Prunella was cheerfully like, "No worries! I dealt with worse at the school!" or, "No worries! Your idea was dreadfully stupid and/or boring, so I've done something else instead!" my heart grew three sizes. Plus [spoiler] was SO HARDCORE.
On the other hand, there is ZACHARIAS. He is a quieter character, so my love for him was quieter until I started talking about to the book with a friend and ended up yelling about HIS NERDY SCHOLAR WAYS AND HIS COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT HIS RICH WHITE ADOPTIVE PARENTS. So I guess my love for him isn't that quiet after all! Honestly, I thought Zacharias' relationship with 1) his adoptive parents, and 2) the office of sorceror to the crown were the most nuanced parts of the book.
All in all, I am TREMENDOUSLY glad the author is going to write a trilogy. ♥_♥
I also finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie earlier today. Despite the rest of the trilogy sitting on a bookshelf, I'm delaying starting the next one a little because I loved the first one that much and I want to live a little while longer in a world where I have TWO more of the books to read. This was a very sneaky love, I tell you, because the narrator of Ancillary Justice is a ship's AI, and I have a hard time connecting with narrators who are not full of FEELINGS. (A byproduct of reading so much YA, I'm sure.) But the world-building is fun, and the plot is full of SPACE CONSPIRACY, and then there's a bit toward the end of the book where a character names the feeling this ship's AI has totally had the whole time, and gentle readers, I got sniffly for non-cold reasons.
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On the bright side, flying back from a wedding and the ensuing cold have given me plenty of time to read. I ordered a ton of books that have Yuletide fandoms and this was a Great Life Decision. Sorceror to the Crown by Zen Cho was as delightful as everyone promised! Prunella and her relentless I Grew Up in a Girls' School practicality! Zacharias and his long suffering everything! A narrative that looks British colonialism straight in the eye! DRAGONS!! It's often a sign of a good romance when I can't decide who I love more in the pairing. Every time Prunella was cheerfully like, "No worries! I dealt with worse at the school!" or, "No worries! Your idea was dreadfully stupid and/or boring, so I've done something else instead!" my heart grew three sizes. Plus [spoiler] was SO HARDCORE.
On the other hand, there is ZACHARIAS. He is a quieter character, so my love for him was quieter until I started talking about to the book with a friend and ended up yelling about HIS NERDY SCHOLAR WAYS AND HIS COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT HIS RICH WHITE ADOPTIVE PARENTS. So I guess my love for him isn't that quiet after all! Honestly, I thought Zacharias' relationship with 1) his adoptive parents, and 2) the office of sorceror to the crown were the most nuanced parts of the book.
All in all, I am TREMENDOUSLY glad the author is going to write a trilogy. ♥_♥
I also finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie earlier today. Despite the rest of the trilogy sitting on a bookshelf, I'm delaying starting the next one a little because I loved the first one that much and I want to live a little while longer in a world where I have TWO more of the books to read. This was a very sneaky love, I tell you, because the narrator of Ancillary Justice is a ship's AI, and I have a hard time connecting with narrators who are not full of FEELINGS. (A byproduct of reading so much YA, I'm sure.) But the world-building is fun, and the plot is full of SPACE CONSPIRACY, and then there's a bit toward the end of the book where a character names the feeling this ship's AI has totally had the whole time, and gentle readers, I got sniffly for non-cold reasons.
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