and more books yet
Mar. 11th, 2007 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbFiction 37-39, Books 39-41:
37. Karen Traviss, Matriarch
Fourth in the wess'har wars series. And eh. While I like meanderings on ethics and environmentalism and responsibility as much as any other philosophically-inclined person, when reading a novel I prefer them interspersed with shiny stuff and, you know, explosions.
Books one to three were full of shiny. After a beginning like that, well. There just wasn't enough shiny in this book.
I'll still be reading the next one, though.
38. Barbara Hambly, Graveyard Dust
I have been trying very very hard not to pick up new authors. I'm keeping up with too many people's opii* for my pockets to bear as it is. And I try very hard not to pick up books from the middle of series when I haven't read the first ones.
Graveyard Dust is the third book in the Benjamin January series, and having read the first couple of pages in the bookshop, I was absolutely hooked.
Benjamin January is a free black physician and musician in New Orleans in 1834. When his sister Olympe, a voodoo priestess, is accused of supplying poison in a murder case, it falls to him to attempt to prove her innocence.
Wow. Rich language, compelling characters, and a magnificently evoked and nuanced setting. Read this.
39. Lackey/Lee/Murphy, Winter Moon.
This anthology (from Luna Books) comprises Mercedes Lackey's Moontide, Tanith Lee's The Heart of the Moon, and C.E. Murphy (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mizkit)'s Banshee Cries.
I'd never read any of Lee's stuff before, but The Heart of the Moon was pretty cool. Lackey's story was very much in keeping with the rest of her works (I begin to grow tired of the eternally can-do preachiness of it all. Her market appears to be dominated by adolescents, though, and I know five, seven years ago I needed books that had can-do as their central theme.)
Banshee Cries is the odd one out of the three, being urban fantasy and part of Murphy's Walker Papers series. (The others are second-world, and as far as googling may divine, not part of any continuing arcs. They are also romance stories, which Banshee Cries is not.) It's also the story that I liked best.
All in all, good reading.
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Tomorrow I go to Poland. Where it is cold. Eek.
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*This is the plural of opus, right?
37. Karen Traviss, Matriarch
Fourth in the wess'har wars series. And eh. While I like meanderings on ethics and environmentalism and responsibility as much as any other philosophically-inclined person, when reading a novel I prefer them interspersed with shiny stuff and, you know, explosions.
Books one to three were full of shiny. After a beginning like that, well. There just wasn't enough shiny in this book.
I'll still be reading the next one, though.
38. Barbara Hambly, Graveyard Dust
I have been trying very very hard not to pick up new authors. I'm keeping up with too many people's opii* for my pockets to bear as it is. And I try very hard not to pick up books from the middle of series when I haven't read the first ones.
Graveyard Dust is the third book in the Benjamin January series, and having read the first couple of pages in the bookshop, I was absolutely hooked.
Benjamin January is a free black physician and musician in New Orleans in 1834. When his sister Olympe, a voodoo priestess, is accused of supplying poison in a murder case, it falls to him to attempt to prove her innocence.
Wow. Rich language, compelling characters, and a magnificently evoked and nuanced setting. Read this.
39. Lackey/Lee/Murphy, Winter Moon.
This anthology (from Luna Books) comprises Mercedes Lackey's Moontide, Tanith Lee's The Heart of the Moon, and C.E. Murphy (
mizkit)'s Banshee Cries.I'd never read any of Lee's stuff before, but The Heart of the Moon was pretty cool. Lackey's story was very much in keeping with the rest of her works (I begin to grow tired of the eternally can-do preachiness of it all. Her market appears to be dominated by adolescents, though, and I know five, seven years ago I needed books that had can-do as their central theme.)
Banshee Cries is the odd one out of the three, being urban fantasy and part of Murphy's Walker Papers series. (The others are second-world, and as far as googling may divine, not part of any continuing arcs. They are also romance stories, which Banshee Cries is not.) It's also the story that I liked best.
All in all, good reading.
#
Tomorrow I go to Poland. Where it is cold. Eek.
#
*This is the plural of opus, right?
