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kittydesadeSo a Thursday Reads post instead of a Wednesday Reads. Despite me taking on way too much work to do, of course, I've been trying to read more this year. Working on 100 books in the year, which averages out to a little more than 8 books a month. This used to be way more doable than it is now. Ah well.
I picked up Kate Elliott's Black Wolves because I went in to the local to buy a calendar and ended up buying a calendar and a book oops. I didn't realize at first (you'd think I would have, I've only followed her on Twitter since she started writing the damn thing) that this was set in the same world as Spirit Gate, and now I have to go get those books from the library again and re-read them. I very much enjoyed it, as much as I did the last series which, perversely, I didn't finish because I enjoyed it so much. Which is to say that I got so attached to one of the characters that I skipped ahead to make sure she had a happy ending, and then when I found out she didn't I very nearly threw the book across the room. Never could bring myself to finish it. Even aside from that, though, Black Wolves stands well enough on its own. Very wonderful epic fantasy.
And then it was on to Tanya Huff, much to my annoyance, two first books in the series when I don't have the second ones, but in one case do have the third and fourth. Sing The Four Quarters and The Enchantment Emporium, both of which I enjoyed, they're fairly typical Tanya Huff in tone and in this case this means POV jumping within a scene. Which irritates me, but it's about the only thing in her writing that does, so I put up with it. I was particularly amused by the Enchantment Emporium, which is so many parts of my life all jumbled up together. Mostly the aunts but also the practical approach to magic, even if in my life they aren't in the same lane. Sing The Four Quarters was a lot of fun, I understand the next one isn't about the same group of people. Aww.
After that it was on to Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series, because I'd started Flying Too High and inexplicably never finished it. They're not too much like the tv show, for one thing my favorite not-quite-romance isn't in it, but I find them enjoyable all on their own merits. Need to pick up the next one at some point.
Kate Elliott passed on a rec for Matt Wallace's Envy of Angels at some point, and I had it, and he was talking it up, so, sure. It's a novella, and I'm not entirely sure it's internally consistent. It's certainly very chaotic and may overload a person on the bizarre. It was on the verge of overloading meon the bizarre, and that takes some doing. And it was clumsy/awkward in a bit of the way that a first book is, but it wasn't bad, I did enjoy it, and at some point will probably read the next one.
And now I'm on Oliver Potzsch's The Hangman's Daughter which is almost distinctively German-In-Translation, and an engaging historical mystery apparently starring the author's own ancestors. I don't know if it's based on a true family legend, oxymoron intended, but it reads like it could have been. And also fun.
After this... I don't know. Maybe start Kate Elliott's Jaran books, my book budget refreshed so maybe more Enchantment Emporium/Four Quarters. Maybe something else.
I picked up Kate Elliott's Black Wolves because I went in to the local to buy a calendar and ended up buying a calendar and a book oops. I didn't realize at first (you'd think I would have, I've only followed her on Twitter since she started writing the damn thing) that this was set in the same world as Spirit Gate, and now I have to go get those books from the library again and re-read them. I very much enjoyed it, as much as I did the last series which, perversely, I didn't finish because I enjoyed it so much. Which is to say that I got so attached to one of the characters that I skipped ahead to make sure she had a happy ending, and then when I found out she didn't I very nearly threw the book across the room. Never could bring myself to finish it. Even aside from that, though, Black Wolves stands well enough on its own. Very wonderful epic fantasy.
And then it was on to Tanya Huff, much to my annoyance, two first books in the series when I don't have the second ones, but in one case do have the third and fourth. Sing The Four Quarters and The Enchantment Emporium, both of which I enjoyed, they're fairly typical Tanya Huff in tone and in this case this means POV jumping within a scene. Which irritates me, but it's about the only thing in her writing that does, so I put up with it. I was particularly amused by the Enchantment Emporium, which is so many parts of my life all jumbled up together. Mostly the aunts but also the practical approach to magic, even if in my life they aren't in the same lane. Sing The Four Quarters was a lot of fun, I understand the next one isn't about the same group of people. Aww.
After that it was on to Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series, because I'd started Flying Too High and inexplicably never finished it. They're not too much like the tv show, for one thing my favorite not-quite-romance isn't in it, but I find them enjoyable all on their own merits. Need to pick up the next one at some point.
Kate Elliott passed on a rec for Matt Wallace's Envy of Angels at some point, and I had it, and he was talking it up, so, sure. It's a novella, and I'm not entirely sure it's internally consistent. It's certainly very chaotic and may overload a person on the bizarre. It was on the verge of overloading meon the bizarre, and that takes some doing. And it was clumsy/awkward in a bit of the way that a first book is, but it wasn't bad, I did enjoy it, and at some point will probably read the next one.
And now I'm on Oliver Potzsch's The Hangman's Daughter which is almost distinctively German-In-Translation, and an engaging historical mystery apparently starring the author's own ancestors. I don't know if it's based on a true family legend, oxymoron intended, but it reads like it could have been. And also fun.
After this... I don't know. Maybe start Kate Elliott's Jaran books, my book budget refreshed so maybe more Enchantment Emporium/Four Quarters. Maybe something else.