BOOK TRACKER #12, #13, #14
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wickedwords 12: Raven Stratagem (The Machineries of Empire #2) by Yoon Ha Lee
Wow, this is a fantastic follow up to the first book. I like that in this one we spend most of our time in different characters than the protagonist of the first book. It lets some mystery build, and makes the world feel...bigger? More real? ... than it did in the first one. Still a very thinky book, with a lot of explicit violence at times (see: genocide). I'm definitely on the hook for the third one, after I take a bit of a break from the intensity.
13: Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson #11) by Patricia Briggs
Comfort reading!! This is book 11 in the series, so there's a whole lot of characters and backstory needed to understand the undercurrents of characterization. Still, after living in this world for so long, I already understand the magic mechanics and relationships among the major political players, so there wasn't a lot to figure out as I flew through the novel. Warning for ANIMAL HARM - not The Magicians level, but still described.
14: A Duke in Disguise (Regency Imposters #2) by Cat Sebastian
This wasn't my favorite of her works, and I felt a bit like this one was a bit average. Maybe it was that the story wasn't terribly transgressive for me, with a bi- or pan- sexual female publisher and an eplipetic male artist who discovers that he is the long lost heir to a dukedom. As they had been friends for years, I just didn't get the sense that either of them had all that much at risk to be together. In fact, all of the change was in them becoming more conventional than they were at the outset of the story, which isn't something I am drawn to.
Wow, this is a fantastic follow up to the first book. I like that in this one we spend most of our time in different characters than the protagonist of the first book. It lets some mystery build, and makes the world feel...bigger? More real? ... than it did in the first one. Still a very thinky book, with a lot of explicit violence at times (see: genocide). I'm definitely on the hook for the third one, after I take a bit of a break from the intensity.
13: Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson #11) by Patricia Briggs
Comfort reading!! This is book 11 in the series, so there's a whole lot of characters and backstory needed to understand the undercurrents of characterization. Still, after living in this world for so long, I already understand the magic mechanics and relationships among the major political players, so there wasn't a lot to figure out as I flew through the novel. Warning for ANIMAL HARM - not The Magicians level, but still described.
14: A Duke in Disguise (Regency Imposters #2) by Cat Sebastian
This wasn't my favorite of her works, and I felt a bit like this one was a bit average. Maybe it was that the story wasn't terribly transgressive for me, with a bi- or pan- sexual female publisher and an eplipetic male artist who discovers that he is the long lost heir to a dukedom. As they had been friends for years, I just didn't get the sense that either of them had all that much at risk to be together. In fact, all of the change was in them becoming more conventional than they were at the outset of the story, which isn't something I am drawn to.
