Second paragraph of third chapter:“Pangyui writes that, in some ancient texts, miracles were described not as rules or devices but as organisms, as if Saint So-and-So’s Magic Feet or whatever they called it was just a fish in a vast sea of them. As if some miracles had minds of their own.”
Third in a trilogy which was up for the Hugo for Best Series ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter:But not this land, she thinks. Not any land that exists under weather like this. …
I got this in 2018 when the Divine Cities trilogy was on the Best Series Hugo final ballot, and read the first volume that year. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I thoroughly enjoyed this one too, combining ancient magic returning to life ( Read more... )

Last year I had read at least one book in all but one of the series on the final ballot in this category. This year all but one of them were completely new to me. In three of those five cases I decided to just read the first volume, for another I picked the volume with the highest rating on Goodreads and LibraryThing, and for the fifth the author ( Read more... )