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Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 4:17 am
by Avatar
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. )
--A
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 1:40 am
by Menolly
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.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:18 am
by Avatar
I'm going to have to re-read all the main books.
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.)
--A
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 4:27 am
by Avatar
Broken Homes, 4th in Aaronovitch's London series.
--A
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 3:28 am
by Menolly
Avatar wrote:I'm going to have to re-read all the main books.
*nod*
The Scottish Prisoner definitely made me do that. The other L-rd John books, not so much. But, they are fun.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 4:17 am
by Avatar
Well, I enjoyed those two. Guess I better start looking for the others.
--A
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 4:21 am
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Foxglove Summer, latest (for now) London book. Not my favourite, but looking forward to the new one, out in August.
--A
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 4:38 am
by Avatar
Read Outlander this weekend.
Now I'm on Dragonfly in Amber.
--A
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 12:26 am
by kevinswatch
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.
-jay
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:44 am
by Brinn
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!
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:05 am
by aliantha
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:25 am
by kevinswatch
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.
-jay
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:32 am
by aliantha
I may have to give this one another chance, then.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:36 am
by kevinswatch
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.
(In my defense, my last 2.5 months have been VERY distracting...)
-jay
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:21 am
by Avatar
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.
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.
--A
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:16 am
by I'm Murrin
I've started reading Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Signal to Noise.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 11:12 am
by ussusimiel
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).
u.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 5:01 am
by Avatar
Read Voyager over the weekend, now Drums of Autumn, book 4.
--A
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:23 pm
by SoulBiter
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!!!
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:27 pm
by SoulBiter
Fist and Faith wrote:
SoulBiter wrote: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.
just ordered these on my Kindle
Cool. Hope you like.
Finished the first book while on vacation and started the second book the other day. Thanks for recommending!!!