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Wants to read Too Like the Lightning
Wants to read The Murder of Charles the Good
Rated The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 8/10
Wants to read When Christ and His Saints Slept
Reading The Devil in the Marshalsea
Rated Lightning Runes 8/10
Still enjoying this series, it's comforting to read something in Turtledove's distinctive voice. We get a bit more of the characters' back story and there's a few new characters, fun alternate history with magic, but the main plot seemed a bit meandering and wrapped up pretty neatly. Fun to read and I'll read the next one too.
Rated November Road 10/10
Very well written, maybe the ending is a little too pat. Draws the main characters clearly and they all sound different. I did like the short epilogue though. I'll look for more by this author.
Rated Everybody's Perfect 8/10
It took me a few chapters to get into this one and even then I would pick it up and put it down. Each chapter is a different viewpoint during overlapping stories in an interesting but heavily Venetian fantasy city, all different intelligent nearly human species. Kind of ambitious and I think there might be other people who like this book more than I do...the writing is excellent as you get to see most of the viewpoint characters in the other chapters and they don't always look like they do inside their own heads.
Rated The Everlasting 10/10
This one was great. Starts out on the small-ish side and in an academic setting in a modern world with fantasy elements, then the plot takes off and expands and covers a lot of different times, but has the same main two characters at the center. Well done, the tone of the writing really suits the story.
Rated Grim Folk Tale 8/10
This one is quite good, follows the urban fantasy formula somewhat but there are two main viewpoint characters. Some of the magical rules seem somewhat arbitrary but it makes for a fun story, also I like the moving forward of the main characters' relationships and the resolution to one of the big problems the characters had.
Wants to read Claire Dewitt And The Bohemian Highway: A Mystery
Rated Locked In 8/10
Wow, a lot of stuff happens in this one and some old mysteries get solved. I think I read somewhere that there won't be any more of these but this is a decent place to wrap up.
Rated Ignore All Previous Instructions 10/10
This was a lot of fun -- space opera with pretty hard SF except for maybe the AI? It also has queer and neurodivergent characters in it portrayed very realistically. Goes back and forth between the 'present' and the main character's youth. I don't think it needs a sequel but I'd enjoy reading more about the main characters.
Rated The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories 8/10
Lots of different feelings from these story, but they are all well done and have good ideas behind them.
Wants to read Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Wants to read How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back