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What I'm reading
Aug. 22nd, 2019 12:09 pmIt's been awhile.
Yesterday I finished The Serpent Seas, book 2 of Martha Wells' Raksura series. An interesting exploration of why we distrust people whom we've other-ed, and when our desire not to other may cause us to trust someone more than that individual merits.
Woo, Wells is definitely in the "chase 'em up a tree, throw rocks" category. The level of disaster-chain was exhausting at times.
Also, how fun is it seeing a male character resist being damseled? Very fun indeed.
My other recent read was Broken Wings by Allegra Grey and Emily Sloan. This is something I normally wouldn't have read, as it's firmly in the romance-without-crossover category, and the formulaic nature of the romance genre usually makes me feel as if the stakes are too low to be interesting.
The romantic hero is a member of a motorcycle club, and the fact that every club member and club member's SO has a gang name as well as their given name, added to the very large cast of characters, would have made me give up if it hadn't been that AG is a personal friend, and I remembered from our Plum fanfic days how vibrantly she can write.
I was glad I kept going, because once I'd found my footing I started seeing how perceptive the hero could be, and how inventive the heroine's survival skills would get. A good read, and now that the authors have conquered that debut-novel mountain, I'll be watching for more to come from them.
Yesterday I finished The Serpent Seas, book 2 of Martha Wells' Raksura series. An interesting exploration of why we distrust people whom we've other-ed, and when our desire not to other may cause us to trust someone more than that individual merits.
Woo, Wells is definitely in the "chase 'em up a tree, throw rocks" category. The level of disaster-chain was exhausting at times.
Also, how fun is it seeing a male character resist being damseled? Very fun indeed.
My other recent read was Broken Wings by Allegra Grey and Emily Sloan. This is something I normally wouldn't have read, as it's firmly in the romance-without-crossover category, and the formulaic nature of the romance genre usually makes me feel as if the stakes are too low to be interesting.
The romantic hero is a member of a motorcycle club, and the fact that every club member and club member's SO has a gang name as well as their given name, added to the very large cast of characters, would have made me give up if it hadn't been that AG is a personal friend, and I remembered from our Plum fanfic days how vibrantly she can write.
I was glad I kept going, because once I'd found my footing I started seeing how perceptive the hero could be, and how inventive the heroine's survival skills would get. A good read, and now that the authors have conquered that debut-novel mountain, I'll be watching for more to come from them.
