Reading Wednesday
So, I am doing much better with the reading! As in, I actually have new books to discuss every Wednesday!
... hopefully now my blogging will catch up. Lumatere books 2 and 3, why so hard to write up?
What I've just finished: Cold Fire! It feels much more tight than the first book in the series, probably because much of the action takes place in a single setting. I'm not a huge fan of journey narratives, which explains why I've always liked the non-Frodo-Sam bits of LotR better. I think there's only so much scrounging for food and shelter and constantly moving on that I can take, particularly when I really like to dig into a specific setting. Luckily, the one in Cold Fire is incredibly cool: the city of Expedition (located in the world's equivalent of our Dominican Republic), which is a center of trade nestled up by the large Taino Emprie.
I also read Charlotte Stein's Sheltered, which has a sweet f/m relationship where the girl is usually the instigator of sex while the boy draws back a bit. I didn't find the portrayal of parental abuse that realistic though; it feels more like someone's idea of what abuse is and doesn't have as much of the emotional terror that goes with it. YMMV, since obviously there is no one right way to write about abuse.
What I'm reading: Currently in the middle of Andrea K. Host's And All the Stars, after starting and then not quite getting into Y.S. Lee's first Agency book or Malinda Lo's Adaptation. I like the Host so far, though I wish it had more worldbuilding and felt less YA. This, by the way, is more about my own mood and what I feel like reading right now than an actual critique of the book, since it is rather unfair to complain about something feeling like the genre it was written for!
What I'm going to read next: Who knows? I have some of Tansy Rayner Roberts' stuff and am eyeing Laini Taylor, which may also feel too YA for now. I might also pick up the Lee or the Lo again.
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... hopefully now my blogging will catch up. Lumatere books 2 and 3, why so hard to write up?
What I've just finished: Cold Fire! It feels much more tight than the first book in the series, probably because much of the action takes place in a single setting. I'm not a huge fan of journey narratives, which explains why I've always liked the non-Frodo-Sam bits of LotR better. I think there's only so much scrounging for food and shelter and constantly moving on that I can take, particularly when I really like to dig into a specific setting. Luckily, the one in Cold Fire is incredibly cool: the city of Expedition (located in the world's equivalent of our Dominican Republic), which is a center of trade nestled up by the large Taino Emprie.
I also read Charlotte Stein's Sheltered, which has a sweet f/m relationship where the girl is usually the instigator of sex while the boy draws back a bit. I didn't find the portrayal of parental abuse that realistic though; it feels more like someone's idea of what abuse is and doesn't have as much of the emotional terror that goes with it. YMMV, since obviously there is no one right way to write about abuse.
What I'm reading: Currently in the middle of Andrea K. Host's And All the Stars, after starting and then not quite getting into Y.S. Lee's first Agency book or Malinda Lo's Adaptation. I like the Host so far, though I wish it had more worldbuilding and felt less YA. This, by the way, is more about my own mood and what I feel like reading right now than an actual critique of the book, since it is rather unfair to complain about something feeling like the genre it was written for!
What I'm going to read next: Who knows? I have some of Tansy Rayner Roberts' stuff and am eyeing Laini Taylor, which may also feel too YA for now. I might also pick up the Lee or the Lo again.
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