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I fell off the wagon for a while there. In retrospect I burned out hard on reading Hugo works.
Finished reading
Six of crows by Leigh Bardougo. This was like a rich, meaty stew. Seriously, for some reason all the metaphors I can think of are related to food. A heist novel set in a fantasy-magicked Victorian London. This has fantastically dense, chewy (see?) worldbuilding, which made for slower but more rewarding reading. I liked many of these characters in their flawed way, although six was possibly slightly too many to keep in the air (or maybe just in my head) at once. Very well-realised...basically everything, although I tend to drift once we get into the nitty-gritty of the actual heists and trust the author will flag when things are/aren't working properly. Legit interested in reading the sequel – this book did a fair job of wrapping up the current plot while leaving enough tempting hooks for next book. I'd heard whispers about queer rep, which was why I picked it up to be honest, and it's there in secondary characters, and both subtle and correspondingly utterly unremarked, and I liked it for that.
Currently reading
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman. Set in an Australia of Settlers vs Natives, of early Protectionist days. I really want to like this, but the writing style is taking some getting used to – the grammar is waving back and forth between being 'non-standard' to being flat out 'that sentence has wandered away and gotten lost'. But the more I read the more I adjusted and settled into it, I'm keen to keep reading, and glad I stuck with it.
Up next
Jessica Jones vol 1
Wool Vol. 1
Both impulse grabs from the local library.
THEN The house of shattered wings by Aliette de Bodard. I've heard good things about this and am v interested.
Finished reading
Six of crows by Leigh Bardougo. This was like a rich, meaty stew. Seriously, for some reason all the metaphors I can think of are related to food. A heist novel set in a fantasy-magicked Victorian London. This has fantastically dense, chewy (see?) worldbuilding, which made for slower but more rewarding reading. I liked many of these characters in their flawed way, although six was possibly slightly too many to keep in the air (or maybe just in my head) at once. Very well-realised...basically everything, although I tend to drift once we get into the nitty-gritty of the actual heists and trust the author will flag when things are/aren't working properly. Legit interested in reading the sequel – this book did a fair job of wrapping up the current plot while leaving enough tempting hooks for next book. I'd heard whispers about queer rep, which was why I picked it up to be honest, and it's there in secondary characters, and both subtle and correspondingly utterly unremarked, and I liked it for that.
Currently reading
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman. Set in an Australia of Settlers vs Natives, of early Protectionist days. I really want to like this, but the writing style is taking some getting used to – the grammar is waving back and forth between being 'non-standard' to being flat out 'that sentence has wandered away and gotten lost'. But the more I read the more I adjusted and settled into it, I'm keen to keep reading, and glad I stuck with it.
Up next
Jessica Jones vol 1
Wool Vol. 1
Both impulse grabs from the local library.
THEN The house of shattered wings by Aliette de Bodard. I've heard good things about this and am v interested.