[Macros]

apts book sounds better

[Aptorian]

The first book in the series sounds even better:

https://www.amazon.c...B6YW3HWK55XCGG2

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Dragon Actually (Dragon Kin, Book 1) Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 2008
by G.A. Aiken



It's not always easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear—a lot—or else salute. It's true that Annwyl has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother's soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man, the way she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer.

Too bad that Fearghus is a dragon, of the large, scaly, and deadly type. With him, Annwyl feels safe—a far cry from the feelings aroused by the hard-bodied, arrogant knight Fearghus has arranged to help train her for battle. With her days spent fighting a man who fills her with fierce, heady desire, and her nights spent in the company of a magical creature who could smite a village just by exhaling, Annwyl is sure life couldn't get any stranger.

She's wrong . . .

And just wait until you meet the rest of the family.

I am sorely tempted to read this obvious trash. It's only 2.50 on Kindle.

This post has been edited by Alternative Goose: 11 March 2018 - 01:41 PM

[Andorion]

Alternative Goose, on 11 March 2018 - 01:36 PM, said:

The first book in the series sounds even better:

https://www.amazon.c...B6YW3HWK55XCGG2

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Dragon Actually (Dragon Kin, Book 1) Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 2008
by G.A. Aiken

It's not always easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear—a lot—or else salute. It's true that Annwyl has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother's soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man, the way she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer.

Too bad that Fearghus is a dragon, of the large, scaly, and deadly type. With him, Annwyl feels safe—a far cry from the feelings aroused by the hard-bodied, arrogant knight Fearghus has arranged to help train her for battle. With her days spent fighting a man who fills her with fierce, heady desire, and her nights spent in the company of a magical creature who could smite a village just by exhaling, Annwyl is sure life couldn't get any stranger.

She's wrong . . .

And just wait until you meet the rest of the family.

I am sorely tempted to read this obvious trash. It's only 2.50 on Kindle.

I have to admit to certain feeling of fascination for this book...

[carjug]

Slade House by David Mitchell.
Wretched Readers, would you care for a rollicking good Ghost Story by a guy who can write as well as Erikson? (Well maybe almost as good? ) Then pick up Slade House and prepare to ignore the phone for a weekend. It is truly a gateway into the bleaker warrens, with spooks that will twist your bile duct. Amazing that British Ghosts can be so freakishly mean.

[Abyss]

Halfway and a bit into Pierce Brown’s IRON GOLD.
Holy crap, he upped his game for this book, and that’s saying a lot because the RED RISING trilo was solid.

[Maark Abbott]

None of that tripe will ever beat out Taken by the T-Rex. *heavy breathing*

[QuickTidal]

Finished the first BLACK COMPANY omnibus, and I think I’d read all of BLACK COMPANY, and a portion of SHADOWS LINGER when I first started to read it. Made it to the end of THE WHITE ROSE this time. It’s interesting to see the progression of the writing from the first book to the third. Really solid stuff this time out (once I adjusted to the more sparsely descriptive writing style). BOOKS OF THE SOUTH next in the read…probably in a month or so.

Started Pratchett’s LORDS & LADIES, which is witchy goodness thus far, naturally.

[Mentalist]

More Lovecraft. Finished Whisperer in the Dark and I found myself annoyed. The narrator for all his professed worldliness and sophistication, was acting like a total idiot.

[QuickTidal]

The Swampfather, on 12 March 2018 - 04:20 PM, said:

Way to many POVs in Return.

Once you settle into them, you'll be able to keep them straight, but yeah there is a LOT.

[polishgenius]

I read RotcG recently myself in my Malazan reread (well, recently-ish) and I seem to have oddly come out of it the other way to a lot of people. I liked it a lot more than most at the time, thought it was better than many of the second half of Erikson's main series, but on a reread, it dropped precipitously. Not that I dislike it, but it's so choppy and in places rushed that it's comfortably the worst of ICE's at the mo. It just leaps from one thing to another so fast that what should be great events get lost in the shuffle, and some of it was just frankly confusing which was weird because I didn't find that the first time - but I also remembered it far less well than any book in the series from either writer, which suggests I had a similar issue the first time and just skipped over it.


Myself, I most recently finished Toll the Hounds, and while it didn't really improve as a book (structurally it is bad, and on a reread it's also probably the center point of some of Erikson's more uncomfortable habits when writing women or about women, in a few ways), the good bits hit me more and it's more acceptable knowing that much of what seems senseless on the first go is leading directly into Orb Scepter Throne.

[Vengeance]

Rereading Surface Detail. Such a great book.

[Macros]

2/3 into warmaster.

If they fuck with Gol Kolea I will be spectacularly pissed off.

Fucking Ordos

[Puck]

I finished Footsteps in the Sky the other day and suprisingly, I loved it. Slow start, fairly straighforward, but I really enjoyed the characters and setting, and when the revelations started coming, it was really fun.

Have started The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer, book three of the Terra Ignota series, which has seriously grown on me. I was not too keen on the premise/setting at first, but cannot wait to find out more now. May end up as one of my favourite series. I love it when a series just keeps getting better.

This post has been edited by Puck: 12 March 2018 - 10:23 PM

[polishgenius]

Puck, on 12 March 2018 - 10:22 PM, said:

Have started The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer, book three of the Terra Ignota series, which has seriously grown on me. I was not too keen on the premise/setting at first, but cannot wait to find out more now. May end up as one of my favourite series. I love it when a series just keeps getting better.

Having read all three, there are still a few things thematically/socio-politically that I'm not sure about (it could be read to be saying some really dubious things about gender and sexual interaction) but it is fantastically written.

The final one might be a while, but I'm looking forward to it a lot.

[Macros]

Finished warmaster.
That was a very unsatisfactory ending.

Meyrl is an even bigger fruitloop than Cuj, and WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MKOLL AND KOLEA YOU BASTARD ABNETT, DONT LEAVE ME LIKE THIS!!!

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 12 March 2018 - 11:06 PM, said:

Finished warmaster.
That was a very unsatisfactory ending.

Meyrl is an even bigger fruitloop than Cuj, and WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MKOLL AND KOLEA YOU BASTARD ABNETT, DONT LEAVE ME LIKE THIS!!!

Forget it Mac, it’s Cliffhangertown!

[Macros]

QuickTidal, on 12 March 2018 - 11:30 PM, said:

Macros, on 12 March 2018 - 11:06 PM, said:

Finished warmaster.
That was a very unsatisfactory ending.

Meyrl is an even bigger fruitloop than Cuj, and WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MKOLL AND KOLEA YOU BASTARD ABNETT, DONT LEAVE ME LIKE THIS!!!

Forget it Mac, it’s Cliffhangertown!

No.

I demand satisfaction. Abnett better be furiously scribbling out book 14, right now

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 13 March 2018 - 07:20 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 12 March 2018 - 11:30 PM, said:

Macros, on 12 March 2018 - 11:06 PM, said:

Finished warmaster.
That was a very unsatisfactory ending.

Meyrl is an even bigger fruitloop than Cuj, and WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH MKOLL AND KOLEA YOU BASTARD ABNETT, DONT LEAVE ME LIKE THIS!!!

Forget it Mac, it’s Cliffhangertown!

No.

I demand satisfaction. Abnett better be furiously scribbling out book 14, right now

I concur. This is my desire as well.

[End of Disc One]

The Swampfather, on 13 March 2018 - 03:52 AM, said:

Well hell. Just when I bitch about Wall some good shit happens and I read 56 straight pgs. Most I have read of this book in a day yet of the 73 days I’ve been on it...

Ed: 94 pgs total but it’s ambien time or it would have been many more. That flipped the switch.

Glad to hear that! When I start this book, I'll need to remind myself to be patient for the first half.

[Mentalist]

Mentalist, on 12 March 2018 - 04:21 PM, said:

More Lovecraft. Finished Whisperer in the Dark and I found myself annoyed. The narrator for all his professed worldliness and sophistication, was acting like a total idiot.

At the Mountains of Madness is significantly better. Lovecraft isn't graphic, and he's trying to create suspense, which still isn't really working for me (while I don't particularly enjoy horror as a book/film genre, I'm genre-savvy enough to see where the bad things are coming from), but at least his character's reactions this time around are more sensible.