Andorion, on 26 November 2019 - 02:38 PM, said:
Abyss, on 24 November 2019 - 03:44 AM, said:
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Just finished Alex Verus bk 10, FALLEN. All good, satisfying, better than the last few books and finally finally shakes up the status quo for the series.
It's not Dresencrack or Kateamine level urban fantasy, but close enough and fun enough that I'll grab 11 when it streets. Glad I finally got caught up on this series.
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I rate Verus below Dresden, Kate and the Rivers of London books. Also McGuire's Toby Daye books which are criminally underrated.
Currently halfway into Ancillary Justice.
If i were ranking, Verus would be below Peter Grant but not by a wide margin. Kate somewhere in there but i place her closer to fantasy, post-apocalyptic fantasy if we're going to be cute about it, but not urban fantasy in the style of Dresden, Castor, Grant, Verus etc who take place in the 'real' world.
McGuire's Daye reco noted, it's been on my radar for a while.
Aptorian, on 26 November 2019 - 03:22 PM, said:
Andorion, on 26 November 2019 - 02:38 PM, said:
Currently halfway into Ancillary Justice.
Bought the trilogy (?) a while ago. Let me know if it's good.
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Ah yes, the one series where the earbook narrator was so utterly atrocious that i actually could not bear to listen to it. Bummer, would attempt the ebooks if i could.
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Finished Gideon the Ninth today (during a comic book presentation because I was hooked). Awesome characters. Hilarious dialogue. Great powerful people fighting powerful people finale. 5/5.
Welcome to the cult.
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Started up the first Expanse book, Leviathan Wakes. I discovered that I've read some of this before. I've definitely read the first ten pages once but I must have dropped the book for some reason.
The handy thing about being 'late' to the party on this series is if you like it, and there's a lot to like, you now have a pile of great reading ahead of you.
Maark Abbott, on 27 November 2019 - 12:46 PM, said:
Most of the way through Black Sun Rising. Very enjoyable so I ordered the next two in the series.
I like how it's just unpredictable enough to throw me off.
This is the correct take.
QuickTidal, on 27 November 2019 - 02:13 PM, said:
I've decided to time travel back to 2011 and get back into Joe Abercrombie's stuff where I left off, so I'm about 100 pages into THE HEROES and it's much easier going this time (I think my first attempt was stymied by the fact that I was too used to the First Law characters and thus could not get into the mindset of grunts in a war setting). Will follow it up with RED COUNTRY, which I also own and have never read...so that by the new year I'll be ready for A LITTLE HATRED.
RED was one of my favorites by Abercrombie. I'll be all over it when he finishes this current trilo.
Meanwhile TRUE BASTARDS take a lot of what worked in GREY BASTARDS, adds some more interesting character writing and moves along very nicely. Enjoying this.
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