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Just started The Scottish Prisoner, another of her Lord John books.

Apparently all of these books fit into the middle of Voyager, and they can all be read as stand alone stories. The order doesn't matter.

(It's actually pretty clever, the way she's used a big blank spot in Jamie's life where anything could have happened. )

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IIRC, The Scottish Prisoner is my favorite of the L-rd John stories. I think it explains the undercurrent of the relationship between Jaimie and John later in the series.
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I'm going to have to re-read all the main books. :lol:

Re-read Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho this weekend, now I'm on Whispers Underground, by Ben Aaronovitch. (The next book is due out in 2 months.)

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Broken Homes, 4th in Aaronovitch's London series.

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Avatar wrote:I'm going to have to re-read all the main books. :lol:
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The Scottish Prisoner definitely made me do that. The other L-rd John books, not so much. But, they are fun.
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Well, I enjoyed those two. Guess I better start looking for the others. :D

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Foxglove Summer, latest (for now) London book. Not my favourite, but looking forward to the new one, out in August.

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Read Outlander this weekend.

Now I'm on Dragonfly in Amber.

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Finally finished Golden Son. Gonna read Morning Star now to finish the trilogy. So far it's pretty good. After this, my long awaited re-read of The Gap Cycle.

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Rereading Bakker's Prince of Nothing. I will have an ARC of the next book "The Great Ordeal" in my hands by Thursday. Can't wait!
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Brinn! :waves:

Jay, I read the first book of that trilogy -- Red Rising, I think? It was pretty decent, but other books have distracted me from reading the rest of the series.
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Sorry, yes, they're in the Red Rising trilogy, with the first book being of that name.

Very good, very entertaining. Light read, but very Donaldson-ish with the kill count.

I got into the series based on an NPR review for Golden Son, actually:

www.npr.org/2015/01/11/374036545/golden ... -the-opera

Red Rising is very much a Hunger Games meets Enders Game clone, but Golden Son is just insane. The ending was killer. Can't wait to start Morning Star.

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I may have to give this one another chance, then. :)
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If I could knock out Golden Son in a mere 4.5 months, you should be able to read it in no time at all. :P

(In my defense, my last 2.5 months have been VERY distracting...)

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Brinn wrote:Rereading Bakker's Prince of Nothing. I will have an ARC of the next book "The Great Ordeal" in my hands by Thursday. Can't wait!
Brinn!! You're alive!

And that's good news, you lucky bugger. :D Been waiting for that for ages. When is it out, do you know?

I'll bump the Bakker thread. Been meaning to start a re-read of the series recently, maybe this is a good time for it.

Jay, sounds interesting. Will keep an eye out for them.

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I've started reading Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Signal to Noise.
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Just finished Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan. It's the second in the Raven's Shadow series. I haven't read the first one but the second one was enjoyable. Fairly action-based and bloody, but at a reasonable level (not at the Erikson/GRRM level of intensity).

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Read Voyager over the weekend, now Drums of Autumn, book 4.

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deer of the dawn wrote:The Black Star, Book 3 in the The Cycle of Arawn. I feel like I watched the writer grow up as I read these books. I almost ditched Book 1 because he kept using the word "deliberance" and I actually yelled out loud "Deliberance is not a word!!!" I'm glad I stuck with it. Pleasure reading is slow lately because I have so much other stuff to do...
I really enjoyed this series when I read it last year!!!
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Fist and Faith wrote:

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Fist and Faith wrote:SoulBiter, have you read Marcus Sakey's Brilliance books? They're among the current Monthly Deals at Amazon. I just read the two. (Third in the trilogy coming fairly soon.) Pretty cool. Not too taxing, but a lot of fun. Brilliants/Abnorms/Twists are 1% of the population since they first appeared in the 80's. Better at whatever each does. Math, music, physics, sports, recognizing patterns in human behavior, strategy, etc.
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Cool. Hope you like.
Finished the first book while on vacation and started the second book the other day. Thanks for recommending!!!
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