reread
If I step back and look at the books I've felt the strongest connection to, they're often stories about people building some sort of home and community out of darkness, even despair. It isn't that the story's purpose is to wallow in darkness, but that these characters strive. Hope moves them to find something -- companionship, love, meaning. Even if opening themselves to those connections brings another kind of fear.
For a number of reasons, I find Michelle West's books satisfy a lot of what I want from a story. (In addition to being in a fantasy setting I enjoy, but that's usually a given if I'm reading at all.)
So I'm moving on from the first three House War novels and starting a reread of The Broken Crown. Enough years have passed that I don't remember much, so it's like reading it for the first time again.
Sometimes I reread books that have taken me on a resonant emotional and imaginative journey. I have a stack of books I've never read, but right now I need to take this journey again.
For a number of reasons, I find Michelle West's books satisfy a lot of what I want from a story. (In addition to being in a fantasy setting I enjoy, but that's usually a given if I'm reading at all.)
So I'm moving on from the first three House War novels and starting a reread of The Broken Crown. Enough years have passed that I don't remember much, so it's like reading it for the first time again.
Sometimes I reread books that have taken me on a resonant emotional and imaginative journey. I have a stack of books I've never read, but right now I need to take this journey again.