Reading has happened

[failte_aoife]

And it turns out just not posting anything does not make the list of books I mean to write about shorter. Who would have thought?

Fantasy

Sam Hawke - The Hollow Empire

The sequel to City of Lies where I liked the very high-stakes murder mystery a lot and had no strong feelings about the characters. The sequel is less murder mystery and more

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I'd been curious about Vita Nostra, but based on your description and my recent experience with A Deadly Education, which taught me that misery is not what I want in my magic school stories, maybe it's not actually for me...

Everything I hear about Tchaikovsky sounds so intriguing, but then when I tried a couple of pages of his bug people book, the prose was meh and I wandered away. I need to nerve myself up to try again, because he sounds like an author I could really get to love...

[ikel89]

Pax loved Vita Nostra iirc? But her general tolerance to misery and darkness in literature in general seems higher :)

[failte_aoife]

It is really extremely miserable...I mean I also had friends who loved it and I think the basic premise was good but the misery bits just dragged on for too long

I did like the prose in Guns of the Dawn but I'm not sure if he did deliberately let himself be inspired by Jane Austen or if he always writes like this

[ikel89]

I was planning to read something of courtney milan's for a while but somehow this Duke book review is pushing this waaay into distant future XD I kinda envisaged her stuff to be different based on twitter osmosis, but maybe i was osmosis-ing irrepresentative bits.

Looking forward to the day when my allocated brainspace free of chinese nonsense (it's a daily struggle) is not gonna be eaten by what i feel like i owe netgalley for giving me books for free and I will join you in squeeing about lords who do not want to domineer <3

[failte_aoife]

The only other thing by Milan was her novella in Hamilton's Batallion which I actually loved. A black soldier in the war of independence meets a British deserter and together they banter but also flee from the British Army so there is actually something at stake there...

it's a daily struggle
Thoughts and prayers