I was going to post something about Kate Elliot's Cold Fire, which I finished recently, but I'm having trouble putting it into words. I think this is because I have trouble talking about a romance, whether in a book or a TV show. I may enjoy it quite a bit (and I did in this book), but then... words ( Read more... )

(Fall of Ile-Rien, book two)

It's a good thing one of us has impersonated a doctor.
A lot of fun, better than the first book in the series. I love Tremaine. There are several sides to her personality, not because she wants to keep people confused or on their toes (though she finds it useful sometimes), but because she's just that way. Somehow she ( Read more... )

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

This is a rather dark story, but it easily held my attention. The main character is very interesting--out of her depth but determined and resourceful. There is a sense of growing unease and a closing off of possibility as the story moves along.

I fell forward, and suddenly I was buried in the soft, ( Read more... )

I might take a break and read another author now. I still have two more books in the House War series (the third one isn't out), and a collection of short stories, but I'll read them later. And I've never read any of the books she published as Michelle Sagara, though I'm interested in reading Silence at some point.

( Anyway, spoilers... )

Sometimes I finish a story (or to be fair, a drama) and everything about it has wrapped around me like a blanket and I don't want to move. I don't want to move from that story or those characters. So it leaves me feeling a little more picky than usual (and that's saying something).

I loved City of Night (even with its odd beginning that seems like ( Read more... )

I usually don't spend much time with stories that happen in the world I live in. I get bored far too easily. I don't want to go here, I'm already here. Like taking a plane from my house to my house, it's an idea that doesn't seem worth it to me. I'm already in this world, I spent my day working here, I want to go somewhere else now ( Read more... )