Kevin's Watch

I'm Murrin wrote:I finally started Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Blades.

I liked that one.

Currently reading 'Rhetorics of Fantasy', by Farah Mendlesohn. Has anyone hear read it?

Nah, never heard of it.

Finished The Thousandfold Thought on the weekend, busy with The Judging Eye, the first book of Bakker's Aspect-Emperor series. (and my least favourite of the bunch so far.)

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Avatar wrote:Nah, never heard of it.

Finished The Thousandfold Thought on the weekend, busy with The Judging Eye, the first book of Bakker's Aspect-Emperor series. (and my least favourite of the bunch so far.)

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It is quite interesting. A taxonomy of fantasy, dividing it in four categories, portal/quest, immersive, intrusive, and liminal fantasy.

Yeah, The Judging Eye was my least favorite as well.

I've just finished reading The Obelisk Gate by N K Jemisin. It's very good, but has some of the usual issues of a middle book of a trilogy. This book is about telling us what the main conflict is, and introducing the various players on the various sides, so we're set up ready for the final volume.

Hiro wrote:Yeah, The Judging Eye was my least favorite as well.

About half-way through. Nearly ready for The Great Ordeal.

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The White Luck Warrior, book 2 of the Aspect-Emperor.

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The Great Ordeal, the new book in the Aspect-Emperor series.

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So, despite swearing off Feist after the Serpent War series, I picked up all 3 volumes of his "Darkwar" trilogy since it was a price I couldn't refuse for a matched set...

Just started book 1, Flight of the Nighthawks.

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Book 2, Into A Dark Realm

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Wrath of a Mad God, last of Feist's DarkWar series.

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I just read Nightwise, by R.S. Belcher. I enjoyed it. I don't usually read urban fantasy, so not sure how it stacks up, but I thought it was good.

Finally finished Morning Star last night, the last book in the Red Rising trilogy. Very fun read.

Now it's time to start my great... GAP CYCLE REREAD

Dun dun dun.

-jay

Nice, we'll expect you in the Gap forum anon then shall we?

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Dancer's Lament, the first book of the new Esselmont trilogy, "The Path To Ascendancy."

Tell you one thing, it'll be easier to read than Kharkanas.

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Yes it will!

I just finished Sisterland, by Curtis Sittenfeld. I was on a big psionic kick for a while, and still read some now and then. Twin sisters who are psychic. Mainly they see things, via various methods/routes (dreams; spirits; etc) that are going to happen, not often in great detail. Only barely scifi/fantasy, it's set in the real world. Sort of like if the psychic at your local New Age shop was the real thing. First person from one of the sisters. (After I finished, I read the About the Author, and learned that Curtis is a woman. Lol. I had been wondering why a guy wrote about a woman in such ways.) A good read, where you want to see what happens next, whether it's how the psychic visions will turn out, or the emotionally draining soap-opera stuff. There's more of the soap-opera than the psychic, but I didn't know that going in. (Probably would have expected it if I'd known Curtis is a woman. )

Just finished my grand Gap reread - it is still a standout as far as I'm concerned!

On to The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, a recommendation by Murrin...

The Baron in the Trees
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So...finished Dancer's Lament. I actually really enjoyed it. Maybe my favourite Esselmont to date.

Only thing is, it might have kicked off a whole new Malazan re-read.

On Night of Knives now, will see how I feel...

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I know how you feel. I can't read nearly as fast as you, so I won't be doing an entire reread any time soon. But I'm in the middle of RotCG at the moment.