So, they say Abercrombie's The Devils is absolutely worth it?
https://joeabercrombie.com/books/the-devils/
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more changes that I don't mind/that make sense:
in the books, we follow Mat and Rand from Whitebridge¹ to Caemlyn, and see their journey in farm chores, juggling/flute playing in inns for room and board, and Darkfriends trying to kill them (with a sprinkling of Rand reacting to using the One Power)
it definitely makes sense to elide all of that into doing chores at one inn and one Darkfriend trying to kill them and one instance of channeling (but no reactions), but I didn't realize until I read the book that the inn and the Darkfriend were inventions of the TV show ...
like I guess it makes sense not to do the Four Kings in Shadow story, if you're also introducing Thom Merrilin (and additionally doing the Aiel in a cage thing), bc that story was already kinda involved
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¹ which is where Thom Merrilin tells them to run as a Fade is bearing down on him
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ELYAS!!!
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I've finished: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
After I finished A Drop of Corruption, I was looking for more Robert Jackson Bennett.
City of Stairs is similar enough to the Shadow of the Leviathan Series to feel very familiar yet not so similar you feel like your reading the same story in a different location.
This time the female is the lead, but she isn't infallible, and the male partner is an uncannily capable muscle.
Like in the Leviathan novels, The story begins with a murder investigation that then reveals more and more about the world, the gods, the old imperial power and the new. Neither political system is admirable but our heroine intends to try and change things for the better.
The premise is also quite unique, What if the rebels found a way to kill the empire's gods? What would an empire that has lost not only its gods but everything that was powered by their miracles look like after decades of occupation?
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b092604c-3cdd-4088-9691-e3ce2d6d577d
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Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Against All Odds.
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Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Second Chance.
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I've finished: City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
General Mulaghesh, the grizzled veteran is at the center of this Divine Cities novel.
This one is about the horrors of war, and the harm it does to the perpetrators as well as the victims.
As ancient and modern warfare come to ahead, can the cycle of violence be broken?
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a32241fc-48cd-499f-9192-1a631294f6da
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'"Are you heading out or heading home?" asked the woman sitting beside him in 15 A. There was no 15B--the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.'
#AmReading Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Yikes! I just had a #Booksalanche! All of a sudden, my pile of books became unstable and tumbled down! Titles involved? #TheHandmaidsTale (placed at the bottom, which made the pile unstable), #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival, Collected tales of #MaryShelly, #EarthForAll, #TheFarmersAlmanac, and #MovingMars! (I was looking for the Power book). Hmmmm....
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Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015.Feersum_Endjinn
1 of thi moust entataynink syfy reeds ov ol, hooj recomindayshn :)
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I've finished: Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
A wonderful zombie novel for people that don't like the killing fest that is most zombie media.
Written in sections, each part explores new ideas about zombies, exploring their nature and treating them like an extreme type of marginalized people.
Each turn the story takes supplies an interesting new twist that takes you on a new path away from the cookie cutter version of the Zombie Apocalypse story.
I never expected to encounter a 5-Star Zombie novel.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f9f7d019-aee2-4726-bdc3-8e69ffc78a15
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I've finished: The Book of Love by Kelly Link
What if one of those stupid YA scary movies about a bunch of teens finding an ancient artifact and waking an eldritch horror, was turned into an in depth slow-paced masterpiece.
Kelly Link spends so much time with each of the characters, we learn to know them and love them as people with their admirable and their annoying traits.
We see them through their own eyes and through the eyes of others.
We see them grow and make their own choices despite all of the magical interference.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208506916-the-book-of-love
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16 to go in the next 5 months!
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What are your reading plans? I just started a fantasy audiobook, I have a library loan ending soon, and a library hold just became available. It might be a lot, but since we have a winter storm warning, there might be a lot of time for it too. My e-reader is charged! What about you?
What if a neural implant therapy for stroke resulted in your spouting ads for the corporation that manufactured the inplant?
@MarissaLingen 's latest in Clarkesworld feels absolutely like something that could be happening now.
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I've finished: Gund of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky
At this point I'd read anything by Tchaikovsky. But Guns of the Dawn is the Tchaikovsky novel most likely to disappoint his fans.
It is mostly British nobles tying themselves up in knots pride and prejudice style. I get frustrated and just want to slap them and yell and them to snap out of it and allow themselves to be happy.
Strange animals are hinted at but never explored. There is combat, but I found the portrayal of musket combat to be lacking. Muskets in a swamp, and checking if the powder is dry is mentioned only when back home in "England". No bayonets? Most shots are accurate and fatal. It seems that narrative necessity overruled Tchaikovsky's usual diligent portrayal of weapons and combat. (See shadow of the apt).
However, the characters are compelling, and the anti war sentiment is pervasive and I appreciate it very much.
Despite its flaws, it is a good novel and I read it from start to finish without switching to other works. It was a grate companion during a stressful week when I found it hard to give all my attention to the audiobook.
Emma Newman was a great choice as narrator.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/238d98e0-c326-4d13-bb77-1a4c981ae160
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Both the first and second book of the Desolation saga will be available on my new Kickstarter, at a discount. Jump on in to the series critics are calling: "exciting and multifaceted", "Fun, thrilling and sharp" & "imaginative and fast-paced".
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharrigon/desolation-keep-your-imaginary-friends-close
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If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero.
What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.
James Clear, Atomic Habits
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Nonfiction Titles I Recently Added to My TBR List: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-newer-nonfiction-titles-on-my-tbr-list/
I've finished: Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A dramatic new installment in the The Tyrant Philosophers universe.
Tchaikovsky is great at conveying the personal cost of authoritarianism and war. The wounds it opens in body and soul, the sacrifices it demands and the price they exact.
This novel is about the deals with the devil our protagonists have made in an attempt to try and mend the wounds this brutal world has burdened them with.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6b941b0c-787d-4953-960d-24c929eca001
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Hugh Cook's excellent: Chronicles of an Age of Darkness, finally have new editions after languishing in copyright limbo for decades.
Cook plays with genre tropes, mixing adventure, satire and humor, elements that help these books transcend the limits that make so many other works of the 80s and 90s feel so dated.
The fan group that published them have made the effort to offer them at venues other than Amazon.
You can get them DRM free while supporting local book shops at BookShop.org:
https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=Chronicles+of+an+Age+of+Darkness%2C
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#KidLit putting words to feelings in the best possible way...
"I feel guilty for it sometimes, for any sort of laughter or feeling of freedom on my part, because there is a war going on and we shouldn't be allowed to forget so easily..."
― Nita Tyndall, Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken.
I've finished: Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
I couldn't put Terra Nullioius down. The compelling characters and their struggle to survive kept me glued to my headphones.
I did not read the blurb and enjoyed the transition from the historical to the futuristic section of the novel.
My enjoyment was marred by the constant reminders of the authors intent. Coleman hits the reader repeatedly over the head with a 5kg hammer: THIS IS A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE COLONIAL TREATMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE TO AN ALIEN INVASION.
There are allot of clues in the story itself and a couple of explicit references would have been enough.
But, I must repeat, I really enjoyed this novel.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/997f6bdb-5b9f-46d0-a994-7e60f6c30fe4
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I made an audiobook trailer! My second one ever. And I am so, so tired. 😅
Speak of the Devil’s audiobook releases in ten days! In celebration, the first two ebooks in the series are going to be on a deep discount just about everywhere. So, if you’ve been considering getting any of my ebooks, HANG TIGHT! The big sale is in five days.
On the first of May:
🩵 Godhunter will be $0.99.
🧡 Speak of the Devil will be $2.99.
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Ender’s Game is a brilliant #ScienceFiction about relationships - brothers and sisters, children and adults, group dynamics… and #loneliness
A war that begins because they cannot simply talk to each other.
And love for the enemy, without which true victory is impossible.
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