Fun with history

[claudiapriscus]

So there's this book series that's aimed so squarely at my id that even the stuff that really I should be critical of (info dumps and all) just slide right on past me. But I read a review of the series recently that complained about the fact that this urban fantasy series went way overboard with the historical characters. They thought it killed the

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[franztastisch]

Are you talking about... Oh what are they called - the Books of Life? Deborah Harkness? If not, don't mind me...

[claudiapriscus]

No, books by Karen Chance. But tell me about these other books. Is there other history fangirling books I should be reading?

(Also: I'm adding the history fangirling/crossover for REASONS to my list of evidence that the author I was speaking of spent some time in fandom.)

ETA: Huh, that's the Discovery Of Witches writer? Man, that's so funny, because I couldn't finish that book. It really did not agree with me.

[franztastisch]

Yes! A Discovery of Witches! That's the one. I finished the first one, and it was fun for the first half, and then it got balls. I was going to try the second but then didn't care enough...

[claudiapriscus]

I kinda got through the first half, and then thought, "my god, this is basically twilight, but in academia," flipped through to the end, and never looked back.