mid-week reading meme

[firecat]

What are you currently reading?

Late Eclipses by Seanen McGuire, the fourth book in the October Daye series. I almost quit reading this series after the second one, and I'm glad I continued, because the third one was good and I'm enjoying this one a lot.

Lilith's Brood, Octavia Butler. I don't know any other writer who can creep me out so much

Comments

[sarahmichigan]

I read "Discovery of Witches" because it was given to me as a gift, but I was really NOT a fan and wont' be reading the rest of her series. My biggest beefs: a) She changes viewpoint irregularly and without warning (mostly from whats-her-faces but sometimes from Matthew's). b) She obviously tries to work in her knowledge of food and wine into the book (she also has a wine blog) but crams it into the novel un-artfully,and c) The ending was super unsatisfying and felt very much like the set-up for the second novel.

I found certain things intriguing about her world building rules, but overall, I just felt sort of irritated with it.

[firecat]

That validates my decision to stop reading it, thanks! The viewpoint changes were sloppy, but I didn't mind that terribly. The endless blathering about wine really bored me though. And I hate it when books don't wrap up nicely.

[sarahmichigan]

I think the Tess Gerritsen series (which I started reading before the TV series Rizzoli and Isles came out) does have a fair number of female victims (unfortunately, like real life) but not all of them. I generally like them though some are better than others. Two strong female characters is nice. Not great literature, but good brain candy.

[firecat]

Looks like the first one has all the sex-crimes-against-women tropes that I'm currently bored by, but I'll keep her in mind for when I feel less annoyed by that. :)

[starcat_jewel]

IMO the second Toby Daye book is by far the weakest in the series. After that, McGuire finds her stride and they just keep getting better. But Toby is uncharacteristically dumb in the second book.

[firecat]

Toby is uncharacteristically dumb in the second book.

Yes, that was exactly my problem.