The Broken Kingdoms and The Sagan Diary

[jimhines]

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[mtlawson]

I'm amused, Jim. You know what I'd picked up from the library the other day? The first four episodes of Cosmos.

[jimhines]

What was it that felt messed up, and do you know what it is about her writing that makes you keep reading anyway?

[jimhines]

That's too bad.

Yeah, I would buy it just for "an entire book about Sieh." He's another of her characters I really like.

[caper_est]

I thought Hundred Thousand Kingdoms was great, and I'm seriously looking forward to getting onto the sequel - which is slowly rising to the front of my To-Be-Read shelf. Thanks for whetting the appetite, and for putting another bean into the "First, do the re-read!" pot. That's always a tricky decision: some books it makes a lot more difference to than others, and there's a wide grey area in which my instincts aren't reliable.

[jimhines]

I don't know that the reread is a requirement for everyone, but my memory doesn't hold on to story details that well, and there were parts where I knew I was missing something but didn't figure out what until later...

[inverarity]

I liked The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. I thought The Broken Kingdoms revealed Jemisin was hitting her limits as a writer. I haven't read book three yet, but I am planning to, though not with expectations as high as when I read book two.

[jimhines]

Re: hitting her limits, how so?

[inverarity]

Basically, I thought The Broken Kingdoms was pretty much book one, recycled.

[jazzfish]

It’s almost poetic at times

Funny thing about that.

[jimhines]

I guess that would account for it, eh?

I feel all observant and perceptive now :-)