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hamsterwoman

Reading roundup (Craft, Locke, Wool), and finishing season 3 of B5

Feb 21, 2015 23:04

6. Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead -- I'd been meaning to read Max Gladstone's books for ages and then forgetting to look them up at the library, until egelantier hooked me up. I figured the necromantic lawyers would work with my "magic as craft" worldbuilding kink, and they totally do. ( Spoilers from here )

vorkosigan saga, link, reading bingo, reading, b5, a: hugh howey, a: scott lynch, a: max gladstone

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hamsterwoman February 24 2015, 02:57:56 UTC

I also thought the non-main-timeline bits in Locke 1 got rather fillery towards the end, which bugged me, because it felt like poor planning / trying to pull of something he wasn't quite ready to pull off as an author.

He doesn't try it again in book 2, or not quite. Rather, book 2 starts in media res with a tense situation/a hook, then you jump back and go in order, and eventually get back to the opening scene in the second half of the book. It's kind of gimmicky, and I think fairly unnecessary, but it didn't bother me -- it just didn't add anything to my enjoyment, I think.

There actually wasn't anything on the writing level that bothered me about this one, but it also felt, IDK, more perfunctory? Lynch was going through all kinds of personal issues in the space between publishing book 1 and getting book 3 out, so I'm willing to cut him some slack on this one. And I hear book 3 is better!