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Jan. 22nd, 2022 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesovei Books read for the year:
1) Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
2) Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
3) Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
I began reading Servant Mage on Tuesday and the only reason it took me all week to finish it is this week absolutely destroyed my concentration.
I've enjoyed everything I've read so far this year. Beneath the Sugar Sky is in Seanan's Wayward Children series, which is itself a portal fantasy and a study of portal fantasies. Dead Lies Dreaming is an urban fantasy that uses Lovecraftian tropes, touches and set dressing while riffing on Peter Pan. It's a caper novel that is set in the same universe as Stross' Laundry novels but it's a spinoff series and knowledge of the other is not required. Servant Mage is a secondary world fantasy with touches of epic fantasy. If the viewpoint character was different, it very well would be an epic fantasy. The novella reminded of something I had heard or read before: Revolution means someone else is collecting the taxes. I hope we get to see Fellian and her world again, if only to know things have improved maybe.
I've no idea what I'm reading next. It's either something by Cat Rambo, Adrian Tchaikovsky, or Charlie Jane Anders. Or not. It depends on my mood tomorrow.
1) Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
2) Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
3) Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
I began reading Servant Mage on Tuesday and the only reason it took me all week to finish it is this week absolutely destroyed my concentration.
I've enjoyed everything I've read so far this year. Beneath the Sugar Sky is in Seanan's Wayward Children series, which is itself a portal fantasy and a study of portal fantasies. Dead Lies Dreaming is an urban fantasy that uses Lovecraftian tropes, touches and set dressing while riffing on Peter Pan. It's a caper novel that is set in the same universe as Stross' Laundry novels but it's a spinoff series and knowledge of the other is not required. Servant Mage is a secondary world fantasy with touches of epic fantasy. If the viewpoint character was different, it very well would be an epic fantasy. The novella reminded of something I had heard or read before: Revolution means someone else is collecting the taxes. I hope we get to see Fellian and her world again, if only to know things have improved maybe.
I've no idea what I'm reading next. It's either something by Cat Rambo, Adrian Tchaikovsky, or Charlie Jane Anders. Or not. It depends on my mood tomorrow.
