[Andorion]

Mentalist, on 31 August 2018 - 12:21 AM, said:

Finished "The Devil you know" . That ended up pretty close to what I'd have expected. The showdown was well enough written, and it'll be interesting to see how Juliet develops. But overall, I'm in no hurry to continue this series. I'll probably wait until there's a sale on the ebooks.

For the next commute read, I think I'll try "The Iron Ship" .

Would that be the Iron Ship by K M McKinley?

[Mentalist]

Andorion, on 31 August 2018 - 12:52 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 31 August 2018 - 12:21 AM, said:

Finished "The Devil you know" . That ended up pretty close to what I'd have expected. The showdown was well enough written, and it'll be interesting to see how Juliet develops. But overall, I'm in no hurry to continue this series. I'll probably wait until there's a sale on the ebooks.

For the next commute read, I think I'll try "The Iron Ship" .

Would that be the Iron Ship by K M McKinley?

yeah, I picked it up on forum reccos but haven't gotten around it yet.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 31 August 2018 - 02:42 AM

[Andorion]

Mentalist, on 31 August 2018 - 02:41 AM, said:

Andorion, on 31 August 2018 - 12:52 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 31 August 2018 - 12:21 AM, said:

Finished "The Devil you know" . That ended up pretty close to what I'd have expected. The showdown was well enough written, and it'll be interesting to see how Juliet develops. But overall, I'm in no hurry to continue this series. I'll probably wait until there's a sale on the ebooks.

For the next commute read, I think I'll try "The Iron Ship" .

Would that be the Iron Ship by K M McKinley?

yeah, I picked it up on forum reccos but haven't gotten around it yet.

Read it and book 2. Loved the worldbuilding.

[Macros]

Just finished the first fifteen live of Harry August.

Superb.

[QuickTidal]

Finished SENLIN ASCENDS....um...I come down with Abyss on the first book at least. It's fine. I enjoyed the opening more than anything else in the book, but the whole middle is a slog, and the ending while interesting didn't blow me away. I'll definitely read book 2...but I'm not rushing.

[Macros]

This disappoints me. I've had Senlin on my shelf for a while, bought it on a 'new cool reco' binge a while back, possibly at the same time as the girl with all the gifts and the first 15 lives of Harry August.
I guess it will sit there a while longer. Given my apathy towards continuing with Vellum I've decided that (don't tell him, he will be insufferable) QT actually does know what Macros will like

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 31 August 2018 - 03:07 PM, said:

Finished SENLIN ASCENDS....um...I come down with Abyss on the first book at least. It's fine. I enjoyed the opening more than anything else in the book, but the whole middle is a slog, and the ending while interesting didn't blow me away. I'll definitely read book 2...but I'm not rushing.

Agree with you QT. The middle part was a whole "just get on with it" for me.

Another thing - even though the Tower is described in detail, the surrounding world is left utterly blank. We have no idea what kind of society Senlin lives in.

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 01 September 2018 - 01:17 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 31 August 2018 - 03:07 PM, said:

Finished SENLIN ASCENDS....um...I come down with Abyss on the first book at least. It's fine. I enjoyed the opening more than anything else in the book, but the whole middle is a slog, and the ending while interesting didn't blow me away. I'll definitely read book 2...but I'm not rushing.

Agree with you QT. The middle part was a whole "just get on with it" for me.

Another thing - even though the Tower is described in detail, the surrounding world is left utterly blank. We have no idea what kind of society Senlin lives in.

Indeed, especially because the tidbits we do get seem a bit all over the place design-wise...like I think it’s Victorian era type stuff, but I can’t tell for sure. The airships make me think steampunk...but the rest doesn’t. Other than mild descriptions of Isaugh (fishing town), it’s like the tower exists on a big blank map.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 01 September 2018 - 02:06 AM, said:

Andorion, on 01 September 2018 - 01:17 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 31 August 2018 - 03:07 PM, said:

Finished SENLIN ASCENDS....um...I come down with Abyss on the first book at least. It's fine. I enjoyed the opening more than anything else in the book, but the whole middle is a slog, and the ending while interesting didn't blow me away. I'll definitely read book 2...but I'm not rushing.

Agree with you QT. The middle part was a whole "just get on with it" for me.

Another thing - even though the Tower is described in detail, the surrounding world is left utterly blank. We have no idea what kind of society Senlin lives in.

Indeed, especially because the tidbits we do get seem a bit all over the place design-wise...like I think it's Victorian era type stuff, but I can't tell for sure. The airships make me think steampunk...but the rest doesn't. Other than mild descriptions of Isaugh (fishing town), it's like the tower exists on a big blank map.

Book 2 gets into the world a bit more and avoids a lot of the drag bk 1 suffers from. I do reco the earbook... solid narrator who keeps it moving.

Just finished Lindsay Buroker’s FALLEN EMPIRE bks 1-3 omnibus. Not bad, not great. A chunk of the stories are very predictable, at times dragging, but the characters are fun and it has a nice Firefly-like roughntumble in space vibe. I won't rush to get the rest of the series but I likely will.

[Macros]

Finished book 13 in the Horus Heresy, Nemesis. Surprisingly good, the blurb set me up thinking I would hate it but a well written story about an elite strike team.

So far only 2 real let downs for me in the heresy, the first fallen angels book, and, to a lesser degree, the second angels book. Everything has been at least solid
As I'm traveling I'm with my ebook so on to The First Heretic

[Macros]

Ugh, Dramatis personae leads me to believe this will be a word bearers book.

Whilst the angels books were poor I haven't like the word bearers in any of the books

[Macros]

I'm already annoyed

Yes I dislike the word bearers but once again the emperor of man is shown to be a fucking idiot.

It's like he read the 101 of how not to alienate your followers and fucked it in the bin

[Tiste Simeon]

PARADISE is here bitches, on 02 September 2018 - 11:36 PM, said:

There is a vast difference on opinion of TTH this 2nd time around thankfully. Up to pg 543 but I think I would be done or close to done with it by now if I wasn’t so into Netflix or XBone the past week and change.

I was dreading this one for sure.

Yes! TTH is so good on reread! Similarly, I struggled with DoD and TCG the first time through but I loved them on reread and I'm loving them this time round. You'll be breathless by the end.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

I found the same with TTH and DoD on first read too - TCG I've always loved!

[Macros]

I disliked them so much I cant see Me ever rereading them

[polishgenius]

I'm halfway through Cold Iron, the first in a new series by Miles Cameron. Very different to the Red Knight series, lot more ground-level and focused on one person. Enjoying it a lot so far.

[Macros]

Same universe or totally new?

[polishgenius]

All new. Not that he breaks any new ground with the style and feel of the world, though it's later-set (more Rennaissance style), but the metaphysics and mythologies are a bit different.

[Salt-Man Z]

Abyss, on 01 September 2018 - 04:36 AM, said:

Just finished Lindsay Buroker’s FALLEN EMPIRE bks 1-3 omnibus. Not bad, not great. A chunk of the stories are very predictable, at times dragging, but the characters are fun and it has a nice Firefly-like roughntumble in space vibe. I won't rush to get the rest of the series but I likely will.

Sound about right. Nothing terribly special, but when you can get the omnibus for $0.99 (or free if you catch it on a sale) it's easily worth the return on investment. I did find my eyes rolling at the dialogue and interactions a few times, but at the end of the day I want to find out what happens to these people. Doesn't hurt that the other books are only $4 each.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

About halfway through Too Like The Lightning, and I'm not liking it as much as I did earlier on (though the prose is still great). It constantly feels like it's both trying to impress and belittle me. Like it's an insecure book that wants to show me how mature it is to win my affection, yet it also wants to be better than me. "Look at how advanced and independent we are!...Do you approve of us? Please approve! You don't approve? We never needed your approval anyway!"

I never got that sense when reading Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.

Taking a short break for fluffier fare — Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 03 September 2018 - 07:10 PM