[Aptorian]

You're cold and dead inside.

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 25 January 2018 - 11:21 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 25 January 2018 - 09:23 PM, said:

worry, on 25 January 2018 - 08:25 PM, said:

I like annoying characters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is that cos you are one

*hands Worry a bucket of Aloe Vera for that sick burn*

This might also help

[QuickTidal]

Alternative Goose, on 26 January 2018 - 10:00 AM, said:

You're cold and dead inside.

^^This.

That book is enthralling from start to finish with little to no let up in pace.

[Andorion]

Just finished listening to Dead Beat. I had forgotten how utterly epic this book was.

[acesn8s]

Finished Deadhouse Landing. Excellent, excellent book. Probably my favorite ICE book to date.

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2018 - 01:59 PM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 26 January 2018 - 10:00 AM, said:

You're cold and dead inside.

^^This.

That book is enthralling from start to finish with little to no let up in pace.

I'm going to have to disagree here. I'm finding it to be very slow, without very much that's keeping my interest going on. Tayschrenn and Hairlock's segments have been generally uninteresting for me, Tattersail's segments are like faster Nynaeve pieces, and Kellanved is having a lovely nap again.

I dunno, usually ICE is good but this might be a DNF.

[Mentalist]

Maark Abbott, on 26 January 2018 - 09:49 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2018 - 01:59 PM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 26 January 2018 - 10:00 AM, said:

You're cold and dead inside.

^^This.

That book is enthralling from start to finish with little to no let up in pace.

I'm going to have to disagree here. I'm finding it to be very slow, without very much that's keeping my interest going on. Tayschrenn and Hairlock's segments have been generally uninteresting for me, Tattersail's segments are like faster Nynaeve pieces, and Kellanved is having a lovely nap again.

I dunno, usually ICE is good but this might be a DNF.

There's a very fun convergence in the end.

Have you met

Spoiler

Cowl

yet?

[Mistake Not...]

Almost done reading A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall (evidently a pseudonym) and this book has been awesome! It's the first book in a just completed trilogy and this is the book that would happen if Joe Abercrombie and Steven Erikson collaborated on a novel together! The characters talk, behave, and interact very much like Joe Abercrombie would write them, but has greater scope and number of characters like Erikson. I'm actually kind of surprised I don't hear more bloggers and reviewers talk about this series.

[Mistake Not...]

I can't remember if this particular reviewer hangs out here or at the westeros forum, but I know him as Nathan and he gave it a positive review:

https://www.google.c...x-marshall/amp/

I get though that not everyone will share my tastes.

[End of Disc One]

Briar King, on 27 January 2018 - 01:20 AM, said:

Iirc a number of people here expressed negative reactions to it.

I thought A Crown for Cold Silver was pretty well liked here. I loved the first book, but DNF’f the second.

[Mistake Not...]

Was there a huge drop off for A Blade of Black Steel or did you just put it aside and never picked it up again?

[End of Disc One]

Mistake Not..., on 27 January 2018 - 01:37 AM, said:

Was there a huge drop off for A Blade of Black Steel or did you just put it aside and never picked it up again?

It was slower and more focused on character relationshps, which is fine, but I stopped finding it funny and the humor even started to grate on me. Humor is pretty subjective though.

[Andorion]

I never finished A Crown for Cold Silver. It felt like the author was trying too hard at times and I never really got into the groove of the narrative.

[amphibian]

Marshall's trilogy is amazing. It's a much tighter, meaner, and funnier Malazan marines campaign run all the way through a war. The philosophy is much less prevalent, the epic scope isn't that epic, but the character work (due to a much smaller cast) is superb. Basically like an Abercrombie book with less focus on warfare and more on crazy magic shit.

If that sounds appealing, this will do the job. If that doesn't, then it's fine too.

I thought each book was a range from very good to extremely good without any dropoff.

Maroto is one of the greatest bandits ever written.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 27 January 2018 - 04:08 AM

[Tsundoku]

Pretty much in agreement with Amph so far, although I'm only about halfway through Black Steel as I went back to work recently and the accompanying headaches drastically curtails my reading pace.

Love the villains, what a real piece of work each one is. Everyone has their reasons for doing what they do, not Just Because.

Maroto is like that person you've known for years and prefer to avoid but can't, who somehow sort of succeeds in a half-arsed way in spite of themselves. The one everyone ruefully shakes their head about whenever the subject comes up, with accompanying dark humour. "He's STILL alive/out of jail?" sort of thing.

[JPK]

I've got about 30 pages left in Royal Assassin. I spent the first half of it wondering how it could possibly live up to all of the hype I've seen thrown on it, and then the second half occurred. You guys didn't over-hype this at all.

I'm sorely tempted to jump straight into book 3 after I finish this one tonight, but I've been promising a friend I'd read Blindsight "soonish" for about two years. She's just read Library at Mount Char, Revelation Space, and started Assassin's Apprentice all on my suggestion so I suppose I should knock this one out.

[Macros]

Didn't get the love for A Crown of Cold Silver at all myself.
It was a struggle to finish

[Chance]

amphibian, on 27 January 2018 - 04:08 AM, said:

Marshall's trilogy is amazing...

I thought each book was a range from very good to extremely good without any dropoff.

Maroto is one of the greatest bandits ever written.

Don't listen to any haters on The Crimson Empire Amp is so right, its one of the most entertaining trilogies the last few years but its not one of those books everyone will like.

Ended up ignoring Warmaster and starting up Raven Strategem and its awesome in a way very few SF authors ever accomplish and imaginative beyond pretty much anything.

This post has been edited by Chance: 27 January 2018 - 06:57 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Mentalist, on 26 January 2018 - 10:24 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 26 January 2018 - 09:49 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2018 - 01:59 PM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 26 January 2018 - 10:00 AM, said:

You're cold and dead inside.

^^This.

That book is enthralling from start to finish with little to no let up in pace.

I'm going to have to disagree here. I'm finding it to be very slow, without very much that's keeping my interest going on. Tayschrenn and Hairlock's segments have been generally uninteresting for me, Tattersail's segments are like faster Nynaeve pieces, and Kellanved is having a lovely nap again.

I dunno, usually ICE is good but this might be a DNF.

There's a very fun convergence in the end.

Have you met

Spoiler

Cowl

yet?

Yeah. It was passable but again, it just lacked any sort of spark for me.

[Mentalist]

Maark Abbott, on 27 January 2018 - 08:12 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 26 January 2018 - 10:24 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 26 January 2018 - 09:49 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2018 - 01:59 PM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 26 January 2018 - 10:00 AM, said:

You're cold and dead inside.

^^This.

That book is enthralling from start to finish with little to no let up in pace.

I'm going to have to disagree here. I'm finding it to be very slow, without very much that's keeping my interest going on. Tayschrenn and Hairlock's segments have been generally uninteresting for me, Tattersail's segments are like faster Nynaeve pieces, and Kellanved is having a lovely nap again.

I dunno, usually ICE is good but this might be a DNF.

There's a very fun convergence in the end.

Have you met

Spoiler

Cowl

yet?

Yeah. It was passable but again, it just lacked any sort of spark for me.

it gets better.