Location:The call is coming from inside the house!!!!
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Posted 12 April 2022 - 05:30 PM
QuickTidal, on 07 April 2022 - 06:39 PM, said:
Abyss, on 07 April 2022 - 05:07 PM, said:
Chance, on 20 November 2019 - 06:35 PM, said:
Abyss, on 20 November 2019 - 03:52 PM, said:
Chance, on 19 November 2019 - 07:41 PM, said:
Finished up Sam Sykes Seven Blades in Black and very much enjoyed it.
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I've considered that Sykes series a few times... overall worthwhile?
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No clue about Sykes other stuff but Seven Blades in Black is a very solid vengence story with a very entertaining main character. It isn't high art but it is fast paced and action filled. The next book in the series goes onto the purchase when it arrives list which isn't all that common.
Morgoth, on 21 November 2019 - 09:27 AM, said:
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You are very much going to enjoy Seven Blades in Black. Sykes might very well have written the story specifically to appeal to your preferences.
33% into the earbook of SEVEN BLADES and you were both very very right w this reco (three years ago), i am enjoying the stabby hell out of this book.
Finished up Sam Sykes Seven Blades in Black and very much enjoyed it.
....
I've considered that Sykes series a few times... overall worthwhile?
....
...
No clue about Sykes other stuff but Seven Blades in Black is a very solid vengence story with a very entertaining main character. It isn't high art but it is fast paced and action filled. The next book in the series goes onto the purchase when it arrives list which isn't all that common.
Morgoth, on 21 November 2019 - 09:27 AM, said:
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You are very much going to enjoy Seven Blades in Black. Sykes might very well have written the story specifically to appeal to your preferences.
33% into the earbook of SEVEN BLADES and you were both very very right w this reco (three years ago), i am enjoying the stabby hell out of this book.
Actually the more I think about this the more annoyed I get. I'm nearly finished with Iron Gold but I'm very much inclined to not bother with Dark Age or get the third one when it comes out...
On the reading side. I'm halfway through BLACKVEIL by Kristen Britain, and it's proving to be really great and enjoyable classic fantasy. Think this is becoming one of my fave series of all time.
After that I'll dive into TRANSFORMATION by Carol Berg properly, and then after that I want to get back into C.S. Friedman's Coldfire trilogy as I've only ever read book 1, but own all three.
2022 is apparently the year where I read mostly female fantasy authors.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
Actually the more I think about this the more annoyed I get. I'm nearly finished with Iron Gold but I'm very much inclined to not bother with Dark Age or get the third one when it comes out...
Actually the more I think about this the more annoyed I get. I'm nearly finished with Iron Gold but I'm very much inclined to not bother with Dark Age or get the third one when it comes out...
Damage control. That whole post is a contrition that was like "Oh, we were going to make this such a good thing, and we were really doing it to protect this stuff!".....nah, fucker...you wanted to make money on this gimmicky new BS and got caught with your hand in the jar and how you're running damage control.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
NFTs are so much lower level than "abusive acts towards people" though. I understand everyone has a different line in the sand, yet an author deciding to make the NFTs before listening to the majority of their audience, stepping back, and *not* making the NFTs is still a terrible thing?
This post has been edited by amphibian: 13 April 2022 - 06:58 PM
I survived the Permian and all I got was this t-shirt.
Well certainly not in the same league as actual sexual abuse but they're a scam and hideous for the environment and that Brown wanted to jump on the train doesn't speak well of his character imo.
I can be mad about that and the other, worse stuff.
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
Actually the more I think about this the more annoyed I get. I'm nearly finished with Iron Gold but I'm very much inclined to not bother with Dark Age or get the third one when it comes out...
Finished up Sam Sykes Seven Blades in Black and very much enjoyed it.
....
I've considered that Sykes series a few times... overall worthwhile?
....
...
No clue about Sykes other stuff but Seven Blades in Black is a very solid vengence story with a very entertaining main character. It isn't high art but it is fast paced and action filled. The next book in the series goes onto the purchase when it arrives list which isn't all that common.
Morgoth, on 21 November 2019 - 09:27 AM, said:
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You are very much going to enjoy Seven Blades in Black. Sykes might very well have written the story specifically to appeal to your preferences.
33% into the earbook of SEVEN BLADES and you were both very very right w this reco (three years ago), i am enjoying the stabby hell out of this book.
I saw that Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga was nominated for Hugo's Best Series, so I picked up Jade City, the first novel.
I'm only 50 pages in so the characterization and plot are still being set up, but I'm enjoying the worldbuilding a lot. If the worldbuilding continues to be as good as it has been so far, Janloon could easily join the pantheon of great gritty fantasy cities.
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 18 April 2022 - 11:44 PM, said:
I saw that Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga was nominated for Hugo's Best Series, so I picked up Jade City, the first novel.
I'm only 50 pages in so the characterization and plot are still being set up, but I'm enjoying the worldbuilding a lot. If the worldbuilding continues to be as good as it has been so far, Janloon could easily join the pantheon of great gritty fantasy cities.
I own the whole series, and book 2 is even better than book 1! Have not read book three yet as I’m not ready for it to end, but Lee has definitely made a trilogy for the ages.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
Currently reading The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle for the book club. Thoughts on that will be posted there.
Recently finished the Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron. Decent series, but would have enjoyed it more with a bit of a different writing style. I would be fine with never reading the word kirtle again. I thought books one, three and five were good, with one and five being the strongest. I found the second book to be weak. With the expanded cast, many of the characters introduced in book two lack depth until later in the series (if they ever acquire it - some fade away) and aside from the prologue the first hundred pages or so is just obvious table setting.
Also read the second and third books in Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence (Two Serpents Rise and Three Parts Dead). Really enjoyed Two Serpents Rise and the way the series seems to be heading regarding the Red King's plans and overlap with characters from different books. Three Parts Dead was decent, but I find it hard to get into stories where someone is trying to solve a mystery that is obvious to the reader. Looking forward to the next two arriving later this week (bought a new bookcase, and it still has some space left which is not allowed).
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 18 April 2022 - 11:44 PM, said:
I saw that Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga was nominated for Hugo's Best Series, so I picked up Jade City, the first novel.
I'm only 50 pages in so the characterization and plot are still being set up, but I'm enjoying the worldbuilding a lot. If the worldbuilding continues to be as good as it has been so far, Janloon could easily join the pantheon of great gritty fantasy cities.
I own the whole series, and book 2 is even better than book 1! Have not read book three yet as I’m not ready for it to end, but Lee has definitely made a trilogy for the ages.
This series is one I've had an eye on so hearing that it's good is definitely pleasing!
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 18 April 2022 - 11:44 PM, said:
I saw that Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga was nominated for Hugo's Best Series, so I picked up Jade City, the first novel.
I'm only 50 pages in so the characterization and plot are still being set up, but I'm enjoying the worldbuilding a lot. If the worldbuilding continues to be as good as it has been so far, Janloon could easily join the pantheon of great gritty fantasy cities.
I own the whole series, and book 2 is even better than book 1! Have not read book three yet as I’m not ready for it to end, but Lee has definitely made a trilogy for the ages.
This series is one I've had an eye on so hearing that it's good is definitely pleasing!
It's like Fantasy Meets The Godfather Meets HK Kung Fu Meets Urban Fantasy.
It's filled with brilliant and realized characters you love to root for and a rich world that ALMOST touches our own (Kekon is clearly Hong Kong, and Janloon is obviously Victoria City, while other places stand in for America, the UK or Japan) and Lee has stated that if you NEEDED to set it in our world as an allegory for time period, it's set roughly in the 70's as the war mentioned in the book that occurred a number of decades before the book is set is a WWII allegory.
It really is just a wonderfully realized series and I will read anything Fonda Lee writes going fwd based off how much I enjoyed this.
I should queue up Book 3 soon, but I don't want the ride to end!
Also, on April 30th, a prequel novella called THE JADE SETTER OF JANLOON is coming out.
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Finished BLACKVEIL (Green Rider Book 4) by Kristen Britain, and really enjoyed it. The second half is really crazy, and the cliffhanger is suitably insane. So I barrelled right on into MIRROR SIGHT....which is considered "The controversial book in the series" that some people don't care for...and at about the 50 page mark I understand why that is...but I am completely fascinated by the concept of this book, so it doesn't bother me at all.
spoilers for MIRROR SIGHT
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Like I know the thing that pissed people off about this one is the time jump shenanigans but moreover that she wrote this so people would stop shipping Karigan with Zachary...and that upset people....but I'm REALLY not sure what series they were reading because I have NEVER felt Karigan belongs with Zachary...like ever. I feel like that's the reason why Estora exists. She's not there as a love triangle, she's there because kings marry for peace in their kingdoms, and not for love. Britain appears to be unafraid to spell that out to readers who read books 1-4 and thought Karigan would end up with Zachary. I've not reached that point yet, but I have heard that the love interest introduced in this one basically reads MUCH more like a romance than any of the stunted unrequited wanting between Karigan and Zachary and shows Karigan what she has towards Zachary is not love like her mother and father had...but again I'm unsurprised as we had Britain writing Alton and Estral in the same book as Karigan and the King and Alton and Estral feels like a natural growing love...while Karigan's love of Zachary is puppy love, and his of her is for the girl he can't have. But yeah, I've never thought that Karigan and Zachary made ANY sense...
EDIT: That said, if in the intervening books Britain feasibly puts them together I will accept it, I just hope it makes sense narratively...because the puppy love they exhibit in the first 4 books aint it. Which may indeed be the point of what Karigan goes though in Book 5?
The other aspect of this book is the future time period, and the "empire" that exists and forbids knowledge of Zachary's time...and Karigan automatically thinks it's due to Mornhavon conquering...but maybe not....what if this is the timeline where Zachary died of his injuries in book 4, and Estora becomes proper Queen on her own and becomes cruel and heartless without him?
Anyways, I'm REALLY enjoying this one.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 19 April 2022 - 02:56 PM
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
Location:The call is coming from inside the house!!!!
Interests:Interesting.
Posted 19 April 2022 - 05:22 PM
QuickTidal, on 19 April 2022 - 12:27 PM, said:
Tiste Simeon, on 19 April 2022 - 09:45 AM, said:
QuickTidal, on 19 April 2022 - 12:09 AM, said:
Whisperzzzzzzz, on 18 April 2022 - 11:44 PM, said:
I saw that Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga was nominated for Hugo's Best Series, so I picked up Jade City, the first novel.
I'm only 50 pages in so the characterization and plot are still being set up, but I'm enjoying the worldbuilding a lot. If the worldbuilding continues to be as good as it has been so far, Janloon could easily join the pantheon of great gritty fantasy cities.
I own the whole series, and book 2 is even better than book 1! Have not read book three yet as I’m not ready for it to end, but Lee has definitely made a trilogy for the ages.
This series is one I've had an eye on so hearing that it's good is definitely pleasing!
It's like Fantasy Meets The Godfather Meets HK Kung Fu Meets Urban Fantasy.
It's filled with brilliant and realized characters you love to root for and a rich world that ALMOST touches our own (Kekon is clearly Hong Kong, and Janloon is obviously Victoria City, while other places stand in for America, the UK or Japan) and Lee has stated that if you NEEDED to set it in our world as an allegory for time period, it's set roughly in the 70's as the war mentioned in the book that occurred a number of decades before the book is set is a WWII allegory.
It really is just a wonderfully realized series and I will read anything Fonda Lee writes going fwd based off how much I enjoyed this.
I should queue up Book 3 soon, but I don't want the ride to end!
Also, on April 30th, a prequel novella called THE JADE SETTER OF JANLOON is coming out.
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All good, i have earbooks 1 and 2, was waiting for 3, now available so the trilo is imminent.
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Mirror Sight is definitely a weird book - but it's still pretty enjoyable. I also just remembered one of the plot points and, well, I'll wait for you to come back on that with thoughts on it.
I should crack on with Licc Anus 2 and then maybe get the new Green Rider that dropped.
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QuickTidal, on 07 April 2022 - 06:39 PM, said:
