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hamsterwoman

Reading roundup

Aug 29, 2015 22:21

49. Lynn Flewelling, The Oracle's Queen (Tamir Trilogy #3) -- I read the first two books of this a long time ago, before I started my LJ, but I remember really liking the first one -- it was the good kind of creepy. The second one must've been somewhat of a letdown (as middle books of trilogies often are), because I didn't bother tracking down the ( Read more... )

a: lynn flewelling, a: sherwood smith, reading, a: cassandra clare, a: rachel manija brown

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egelantier August 31 2015, 12:40:50 UTC

i'm happy the second volume worked better for you! it really gathers up steam here, and kerry is delighftul, and ross' adventures in the golden point were like a delicious, delicious catnip for me, dungeon sequence and all. and what a magnificent explosion!

i am soooo looking forwards to your reaction to raven boys, no lie.

hamsterwoman August 31 2015, 18:20:10 UTC

It definitely gathers up steam in this book (which makes the first one feel even more like a pilot episode to introduce everybody with a bit of action at the very end).

Oh, right, the hell cell sequence! (I don't think I mentioned it in my write up, but I quite liked everything with Luis as well, but especially the final scene in the hell cell with Ross.)

I am almost 50% into the first Raven Boys book, and I'm actually finding it a very quick read, in a guilty pleasure sort of way. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to find Gansey quite as hilarious as I do (probably not to this degree, I'm thinking?), but that's definitely contributing significantly to my enjoyment. I also quite like Blue's crazy psychic family, but I have always had a soft spot for crazy magical families.

egelantier August 31 2015, 18:24:04 UTC

how is the writing style working out for you? i think i'd be able to actually enjoy the whole Tortured Rich Boys thing if the prose weren't so tortured and didn't take itself so deadly seriously. and oh my god, gansey is HILARIOUS. it's too bad it seems to be unintentional comedy.

hamsterwoman August 31 2015, 18:42:56 UTC

The writing is REALLY REALLY PRETENTIOUS, but most of the pretentiousness seems to be living in Gansey's and Adam's POV, so I've been sort of writing it off to teenage boy POVs full of self-importance. (I totally see the skin-suit thing you mentioned in your review, btw. Adam's obsession with Gansey (and Ronan, too, apparently?) is a little... um, intense.) But, yeah, I'm mostly taking the pretentiousness as belonging to Gansey and thus part of Gansey's overall hilarity, and Adam's part in it more of his trying-to-be-Gansey thing ( ... )

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jaelle_n_gilla August 31 2015, 13:43:10 UTC

It seems to be a mark of longer series that the pace at some point starts to be labored. I'm suffering the same with Game of Thrones.

I've read Cassie Claire's Draco Veritas series and enjoyed it enormously but I remember that the last book seemed lengthy, too. J has read the City of Bones series and found it slow-moving. And he's much more tolerant of that than I am :)

hamsterwoman August 31 2015, 19:04:25 UTC

Yeah, Game of Thrones really loses momentum after Storm of Swords, and I've enjoyed each subsequent book less. Not convinced GRRM will manage to reverse this trend ( ... )