On the back of Empire of Ivory

[astridmyrna]

"Enthralling reading--it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons and Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini."

-- Time, on His Majesty's Dragon

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Fucking Time. Ugh.

Comments

[alryssa]

I'm just about to read this book...

[astridmyrna]

IT'S A GOOD BOOK AND TIME HAS NO IDEA WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT.

LIKE, WAY TO FUCKING ALIENATE ANYONE WITH A BRAINSTEM, JACKHAT.

[alryssa]

I just finished it! Cracking good read and NOT AT ALL like this idiot's assessment.

[astridmyrna]

Oh yay! My jaw literally dropped reading that description, liek omg no.

[the__ivorytower]

I finally got around to reading Tongues of Serpents and Crucible of Gold... they're both very good, but I'd forgotten Novik's obsessive love of semi-colons. The dialogue reads so oddly.

[astridmyrna]

I always took that as mimicking the style of 19th century British/French writing. And I'm just starting Tongues of Serpents!