[acesn8s]

About 10% into the Crimson Campaign and I'm wondering why I didn't continue with this series right after finishing book 1? I like the characters, the world, the magic systems. Must have had something really good in the queue, I guess.

[Salt-Man Z]

I'm currently 2/3 of the way through a fascinating book called The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. It's about a man (Harry August) born in Scotland in 1919, who, upon dying, finds himself suddenly reliving his life over again starting from his birth, but still retaining all of his memories and knowledge from his previous life. It's a clever, thoughtful book, with some decent action (and I enjoy how Our Hero is often unsuccessful in his adventures) and a good exploration of the ramifications of its premise. (One of the most clever touches is how other people like Harry, who have formed a sort of Club, are able to communicate backward in time by relaying a message to an elder member before their death, so that they can then deliver said message to a previous iteration of the Club a few years after their rebirth, 80-90 or so years in the past.)

[Tiste Simeon]

Salt-Man Z, on 27 August 2018 - 09:22 PM, said:

I'm currently 2/3 of the way through a fascinating book called The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. It's about a man (Harry August) born in Scotland in 1919, who, upon dying, finds himself suddenly reliving his life over again starting from his birth, but still retaining all of his memories and knowledge from his previous life. It's a clever, thoughtful book, with some decent action (and I enjoy how Our Hero is often unsuccessful in his adventures) and a good exploration of the ramifications of its premise. (One of the most clever touches is how other people like Harry, who have formed a sort of Club, are able to communicate backward in time by relaying a message to an elder member before their death, so that they can then deliver said message to a previous iteration of the Club a few years after their rebirth, 80-90 or so years in the past.)

Colour me intrigued! I enjoy stuff like this, it sounds vaguely similar in concept to How To Stop Time by Matt Haig.

[Imperial Historian]

The first fifteen lives of Harry August is phenomenal. Clare north is one to watch ( though in my opinion none of her other books have been quite as good, touch and the disappearance of hope were both good reads)

[worry]

It's $2.99 on American Kindle...went for it!

[Mentalist]

After some deliberations, I decided to stick with publication order for Tolkien. So, "Fellowship of the Ring" is next.

[Maark Abbott]

Sky Sermon, on 25 August 2018 - 05:51 AM, said:

I loved the Second Apocalypse and will always recommend it. However, I...well...stopped reading at the Unholy Consult. No weepers, right? I did a ton of that about 27% in. >

Fall to the Sranc, Weeper. None of that on the slog!

[Chance]

Finished up The Poppy War a while ago and after looking up why the book was written and the author it's obvious the parts I enjoyed where only a prelude to the point of the book. That later part being far too close to politically loaded history to make good fantasy for me when a very limited view is used. Still I enjoyed the magic system and the main character while she had agency.

Currently going through Senlin Ascends and its a perfect contrast.

[QuickTidal]

MAGIC TRIUMPHS dropped onto my Kindle (it's release day!), so I'll probably break into that before getting into BLOODY ROSE (Eames WYLD sequel).

[polishgenius]

Mentalist, on 25 August 2018 - 04:43 PM, said:

Finished "The Year of Our War". As expected, there's no real conclusion. It's knda obvious where the plot goes from here for a bit, but I'm still struggling to see how we got a series out of this setting.

Yeah, it is an odd series. I really enjoy it though (apart from the prequel, Above the Snowline, for some reason I didn't get on with that one at all). Actually need to get back on it coz I haven't read Fair Rebel, the latest book that came after her hiatus, yet.



I started Bloody Rose. It's rather good. Perhaps a bit darker and sadder than Kings of the Wyld, though the humour and action remain.

[Macros]

I have Harry August on my shelf, must get started on it

[Salt-Man Z]

Finished Harry August last night, and it was absolutely fantastic. Found out that "Claire North" is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb/Kate Griffin, who both sound very familiar, but I don't own anything by.

[Chance]

Salt-Man Z, on 28 August 2018 - 05:31 PM, said:

Finished Harry August last night, and it was absolutely fantastic. Found out that "Claire North" is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb/Kate Griffin, who both sound very familiar, but I don't own anything by.

Both Matthew Swift and its sequel series Magicals Anynomous from Kate Griffin are interesting urban fantasy.

[Morgoth]

I just finished Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet; the first book in his new fantasy series. I am of two minds. I liked the book, but I didn't love it. It didn't fully grab me. It started out fairly weak and I kept wondering if I had made some mistake and it had actually been written by a different author. Very little of what makes Bennet great, at least to me, was present in this book. Had this been a new writer I would have been pleased and interested, but because it was Bennet I feel mostly disapointed.

There are glimmers here and there. Some of the scenes are amazing, but I just expected more.

This post has been edited by Morgoth: 29 August 2018 - 06:38 AM

[Traveller]

Leaving Shardlake and 16th C England for now, and going back to Kovacs - just starting Woken Furies.

[Maark Abbott]

Just banged through issue 25 of Attack on Titan and things are getting very interesting indeed. I especially like how some pages just eschew dialogue entirely - the artwork renders it unnecessary.

Still got no drive to read another full-length novel.

[Macros]

Started Harry August last night. Interesting book so far

[Maark Abbott]

Macros, on 29 August 2018 - 07:58 AM, said:

Started Harry August last night. Interesting book so far

Better complete it before Friday or you'll be out of time.

[Tsundoku]

Took a break from Patrick Weekes to smash through Thrawn: Alliances. Not as fun as the first book but as it's mostly about Thrawn and Anakin/Vader, with half the book in flashback mode you learn more about them, and it's quite interesting. I also quite liked the view of Imperial characters and operations you don't normally get.

8 awesome red-eyed blue-skinned Grand Admirals out of 11.

[Macros]

Maark Abbott, on 29 August 2018 - 08:00 AM, said:

Macros, on 29 August 2018 - 07:58 AM, said:

Started Harry August last night. Interesting book so far

Better complete it before Friday or you'll be out of time.

Shouldn't be a problem I'm a third of the way in, will probably read the same tonight and finish Thursday.

I'm only taking my Kobo with me on holidays this time so my travel reading will probably all be 40K as that makes up the bulk of the unread section on it