Getting back on the horse.
Jan. 22nd, 2007 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's never as easy as it sounds.
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Fiction 9, 10 & 11, Books 10, 11 & 12: Sarah Micklem's Firethorn, J. D. Robb's Born in Death and Jim Butcher's Cursor's Fury.
Firethorn is an interesting book. I will not say I liked it, so much as I was compelled by it: it has a certain narrative momentum. It was well-written, but I didn't like it. I prefer my brutality through the rose-tinted glasses of hope, thank you very much.
Born in Death. Roberts writing as Robb. What can I say? Not brain food, but more than enough murder plot to keep me reading, though two days later I'm hard pressed to remember what it was about. The only thing that stands out were the obligatory Dallas-Roarke sex scenes, mainly for being annoying, pointless incursions on a plot that was moving at a fair clip. (Also? Does Roberts cut-and-paste all her sex scenes?)
Cursor's Fury is a definite improvement over Academ's Fury. Solid fantasy, but more in the style of a thriller, and of the three books I read this weekend, definitely the one I enjoyed the most.
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The first chapter of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Fledgling is live at their website. As soon as I become unpoor, I plan to send them moneys to be able to look forward to a finished product. I encourage the going of forth and doing of likewise.
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Tomorrow, I get back on the horse. Writing, exercising, study, the whole hog. No more falling off.
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Fiction 9, 10 & 11, Books 10, 11 & 12: Sarah Micklem's Firethorn, J. D. Robb's Born in Death and Jim Butcher's Cursor's Fury.
Firethorn is an interesting book. I will not say I liked it, so much as I was compelled by it: it has a certain narrative momentum. It was well-written, but I didn't like it. I prefer my brutality through the rose-tinted glasses of hope, thank you very much.
Born in Death. Roberts writing as Robb. What can I say? Not brain food, but more than enough murder plot to keep me reading, though two days later I'm hard pressed to remember what it was about. The only thing that stands out were the obligatory Dallas-Roarke sex scenes, mainly for being annoying, pointless incursions on a plot that was moving at a fair clip. (Also? Does Roberts cut-and-paste all her sex scenes?)
Cursor's Fury is a definite improvement over Academ's Fury. Solid fantasy, but more in the style of a thriller, and of the three books I read this weekend, definitely the one I enjoyed the most.
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The first chapter of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Fledgling is live at their website. As soon as I become unpoor, I plan to send them moneys to be able to look forward to a finished product. I encourage the going of forth and doing of likewise.
*
Tomorrow, I get back on the horse. Writing, exercising, study, the whole hog. No more falling off.