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failte_aoife

Fantasy haul

Nov 04, 2019 22:57

Since I have read a lot since the last time I'll split by genre. Part one: Fantasy

Sam Hawke - City of LiesThis was sold to me as 'Agatha Christie channeled through Robin Hood' so it will surprise exactly no one that I picked it up and well...dissapointment is too strong a word but it wasn't quite what I had hoped for and not only because I want ( Read more... )

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rinkafushi November 4 2019, 22:11:08 UTC

Reader, I can hear you ask "Why the hell are you doing this to yourself?"

For our entertainment /preens

failte_aoife November 4 2019, 22:22:46 UTC

But who am I entertaining here? Not me *sobbing*

rinkafushi November 4 2019, 22:27:37 UTC

Well, I don't care know about you, but I had fun reading about quality literature!

hamsterwoman November 9 2019, 23:42:48 UTC

Argh, City of Lies sounds both like something I could be interested in, for the same things you liked about it, and like the problems you had with the book (POV and characters) would interfere with me actually enjoying it. I'll probably keep an eye out anyway and give it a shot if it wanders across my path...

It's a crime novel, set in a kitchen-sink-ish fantasy world

Ooh! This, plus the large family, is very Relevant To My Interests. Doesn't look like my library has a copy, but I'll have to keep an eye out for some place that might!

"Ja ljublju tebja," I told my father.
or
"Privjet", I said to the soldiers in Russian.

*twitches* And, wow, way to make it worse, audiobook XP

oh and sixteen-year-old Anastasia has communism explained to her in a paragraph, then spends two sentences explaining how that could never work and another wondering how people are so stupid to think it does)This made me look up the author, wondering if she had a Soviet/Eastern Bloc ex-pat background like mine, because that's where I would expect ( ... )

failte_aoife November 11 2019, 09:55:37 UTC

I really want to read the sequel to City of Lies and so hope that it picks up because then I can see the author turning in a favourite.

And I have just bought the sequel to the murder solving mages (plus some other books set in the same world. I'm not sure how connected they exactly are but the author also wrote heist fantasy in the same world, spies and vigilantes (I skipped the vigilantes but will try the rest).

And, wow, way to make it worse, audiobook XP
Really, I've gotten used to books doing the random foreign language phrases (while screaming internally quite excessively) but the accents in the audiobook really were Something Else.

wondering if she had a Soviet/Eastern Bloc ex-pat backgroundThat's another possibility. But I also looked up some reviews of another of her books (The Gunpowder Plot but with Magic) and a complaint there boilt down to 'she really oversimplified the politics a lot' so perhaps it's also that combined with Christian background says Communism is evil ( ... )