Books (General)

[lucid isle]

Projcet Hail Mary was really good!

[wraith lynx]

Purple Hibiscus mention, hell yeah!!

I need to reread it, its been like 10 years

I cant wait to read project hail Mary too

[long sorrel]

I'd put The Devil's above WotM, and probably any of the Hobb ones, but I haven't read those yet. I think Emberdark also goes above WotM

That said I read WotM last year so I'd need to compare in there 👀 let me see

[low hill]

Whereas I thought Project Hail Mary was terrible...

[lucid isle]

I only really started reading properly this year and theres already so much on my list.

[junior dew]

It was!

[junior dew]

It was really good! I hated it!

[junior dew]

It only gets worse

[royal carbon]

People are different, not every book is for every person.

[junior dew]

@wraith lynx I can't remember, have you read The Girl With the Louding Voice as well?

[lucid isle]

A freind keeps going on about the Wheel of Time but I want to get the Cosmere done first

[wraith lynx]

I havent but you told me to give it a go! 🥰

[junior dew]

Ahh gotcha. Yeah I still think it's one of the best books I've ever read haha

[lucid isle]

I really wish I'd been able to enjoy reading more before i hit 40 😂

[junior dew]

Never too late! Plenty of years to throw at books still

[long sorrel]

Right, so I read the entire expanse, Mercy of Gods, Djinn Universe (1 novel and 3 shorts), Starless Sea, Almost all of Kingfisher's biography, Emily Wilde series, Folk of the Air series, other Holly Black books (that were good, some were really bad), Most of RBJ series, A bunch of Schwab... Basically... well, well... how to put it, Will of the Many is actually on the bottom 20 of 2024
And I liked it! I just read so many good things last year lol

[lucid isle]

@long sorrel just the person! I about to say need to give Calibans War another go because I loved Leviathan Wakes but found Calibans hard to get into

[low hill]

If you read at least 40 books, by definition something must be in the bottom 20. :P
-# Assuming we're having non-overlapping sections of the list. Otherwise if you read less than 20 all the books you read are in the bottom 20.

[long sorrel]

is that so? I quite enjoyed it, I think the overall story is worth but you shouldn't force yourself

[lucid isle]

I think it was the detective elemet to Leviathans that I enjoyed

[long sorrel]

You know that isn't the case for me, lol. But the point was about whether WotM was on top 20 or below, and in my case it's at the bottom

mhm, Leviathan's Wake has a certain noir to it, each book leans a bit into different genres

[vital ibex]

Piranesi vague ||For me, i loved how disorienting the early part of the book is, the picture in my mind that Susanna Clarke painted of the setting was so beautiful too||

[ivory cypress]

oh i loved piranesi

made sure i had a personal copy afterwards

[long sorrel]

If only i had space 😩

[merry galleon]

Murtagh ||his mind breaking and being used by a cult|| let me go cry for a bit

[long sorrel]

Unrelated to the yp conversations I just found this art of The Cruel Prince and I come to share, by macabre_elysian, it's gorgeous
I'll spoil for TCP all (only book 1) for safety.

[wraith lynx]

Ive been getting so much yummy tcp fanart on my timeline

This is great too!

TCP fanart ||https://www.instagram.com/p/DQXV1KUDOI6/?igsh=MTdnZzY1YTR4Znhvcw==||

Instagram

This one is a FAVORITE of mine

[long sorrel]

I think I saw some of TCP all ||Cardan's rage when he gets crowned ||

like this, though i can't find it full image nor the artist (I'm trying, I had found it before)

google, dear, I do not want to see british royalty

[wraith lynx]

||Awww oak is adorable ||

[proper silo]

Erha 286 ||I'm not entirely sure how we went from goofy-ass fantasy adventure romance to magic zombie apocalypse but I am so on board this like holy hell 🍿 ||

290 ||tf you mean there's two Mei Hanxues?||

||Is there anyone in this book who doesn't have a copy of themselves running around???||

||oh gods, that's so funny, Xue Meng's been beefing with the wrong Mei Hanxue ||

[random dome]

(TCP Ending) It's by Morlev_Art

[long sorrel]

Ah. Thanks

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/ouran-high-school-hoast-club-gif-5934795

[proper silo]

Okay, that's volume 9 down, and I have to say

I'm kinda glad I paused reading for a month, cause if I'd have to wait a full month for that cliffhanger to resolve...

Anyway, yeah, Erha good, keeps getting better, can't wait for the grand finale 🍿

I wanna scream at people about this book so much, it's unreasonable

[long sorrel]

Lol... I'll get back to it... some day

[proper silo]

Do it, you need to see all the glorious nonsense (and actial genuine coolness) Erha gets to once the breaks come off the plot

In the meanwhile, I've got another book to read, since I'm on a train rn and not much better to do here. Thousand Autumns.

The premise seems to be that a guy finds an amnesiac dude and asks himself "wouldn't it be hilarious if I told him he's my apprentice?"

Somehow, drama and romance follows?

[wraith lynx]

TWK 4 ||I dont like that Taryn is all "Tee hee lets just pretend I didnt fool around with a man who played with your feelings" like I get it i do, but its still annoying.||

||also ahh the very idea of chucking any of my sweet stuffies into a fire makes me sad, jude is built different||

[long sorrel]

Do you mean TWK?

[wraith lynx]

Yes I did 😂

Thank you, I used TCP a lot yesterday... and just now 😂

[proper silo]

Oh wow, the premise of Thousand Autumns really is "MC saves a dude's life cause he wants to see how sad the guy will be when he wakes up and sees that all his bones are broken"

He is so... Pettily evil, it crosses the line from unlikeable to hilarious

[long sorrel]

Wtf

[tight kindle]

Ok I have a book related... Something because I'm having emotions about it.

TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea has been very controversial ever since he said in an interview that it was inspired by the 60s scoop. There are a lot of people who take very large issue with this, feeling that he did not portray such a horrifying event in the light that it should have been. There's a Reddit post here that explains it much better than I could (sorry it's also quite long): https://www.reddit.com/r/romancelandia/comments/nqqofa/the_house_in_the_cerulean_sea_and_the_60s_scoop/
These problems they have with it are completely reasonable and rational and it was problematic of Klune to call an event like this a major inspiration for the story he wrote.
The thing is there are a lot of people who feel that it was majorly morally reprehensible and now denounce him and his work entirely and refuse to support him in any capacity. I feel stuck in the middle as a reader that really loves the book and his other works and who now feels pressure to also take a moral stance against him because of how strong the reactions against this are.

I would love to hear other people's opinions on the subject because I'm feeling stuck :/

[proper silo]

Oh, it gets better. Dude drops the unconscious guy in his apprentice's care, forgets about it for like a month, comes back to find out that the apprentice BS'd the amnesiac into thinking he was also the apprentice, and just rolled with it

And then went "hey, go kill those people for me, I don't like them"

And the (real) apprentice is like "yeah, sure, let's go murder some innocent women and kids"

[alpine drum]

I am not really clear on what is problematic about being inspired by instances of these types of enforced child separation when the book you are writing is about enforced child separation

[proper silo]

I am reading a book about a pair of Saturday morning cartoon villains and this rando dude they picked up for funzies

[alpine drum]

Assuming he's not justifying the separation

Like, an indigenous Canadians perspective/take on a story with these themes would almost certainly be different and would definitely provide a different connection between the reader and the real events. However, if its handled with tact and understanding then I think it would be more problematic to write about that kind of thing without doing your due diligence in representing it in a way that isn't justifying it or whatever

Just realized thats quite a run on sentence

[long sorrel]

I don't think being inspired by something means you have to make a portrayal of that thing. So... uh... yeah, I don't care.
He should have been more careful when mentioning that in today's society? Yes probably, that's about it.

[long sorrel]

He absolutely isn't

I mean I've not read the interview but I cannot imagine he would, based on the books

[somber timber]

I don’t think it’s problematic to say you’re inspired by x historical atrocity

[long sorrel]

I... kinda wanna read it

[low hill]

I feel stuck in the middle as a reader that really loves the book and his other works and who now feels pressure to also take a moral stance against him because of how strong the reactions against this are.

I have read the link, as I'm in my way to bed, but generally...

Do not base what you think about a subject on whoever shouts the loudest nearby. Make up your own mind and stick with it, adjusting if the facts or your feelings change.

If you don't like the fact he based it on that event, then that's the reason to not like the book. If someone else doesn't like it because of that, that's not a reason for you to have to agree.

[somber timber]

Interpreting the real world through your artistic creation is kinda… essential to the creation of art

[long sorrel]

Yeah, your morals should not depend on society pressure. It is a good thing to stop an examine them, yes, as to not be stagnant, but the conclusion is yours and yours alone.

[alpine drum]

I would agree except in cases where its like the work is taking a legitimately harmful stance on something but you the reader dont understand the implications without someone else explaining it.
For instance a hypothetical book which is taking a pro-imperialist stance or something but the reader is not well versed in history. If they learn the context its definitely valid for their opinion of the work to change

[long sorrel]

That is the part where you should stop and examine where is it coming from and make up your mind about it, is it not?

[proper silo]

On one had: join me
On the other hand: Erha...
On the other-other hand, Thousand Autumns is less than half the length of Erha

[long sorrel]

I'm probably going to do neither, november has too many books coming out lol

[minor sleet]

Thousand Autumns is so good

[alpine drum]

I missed that vecna had a "have to" at the end

[minor sleet]

It’s un breakable rock vs immovable object

[proper silo]

You know, I was wondering if you've read it

[tight kindle]

That's been a lot of my thought process, but a lot of the pressure I'm, well, putting on myself comes from the fact that the people with the strongest emotional reactions against it are the ones with an emotional connection to the event, which I don't have at all. I didn't even know what it was until I saw people talking about this.
I feel like... If the people with actual knowledge and emotional connection to the event are the ones that reacted negatively I should listen to them

[minor sleet]

It’s not super romantic but the two leads are very suited to each other is an opposites attract way

[long sorrel]

So the real question here is, do you think that spinning a real life atrocity into a cozy fantasy about how there's hope in the world is something that is okay? Or something that should be frowned upon? And if the later, do you think that's enough to cancel someone, or simply engage in criticism about it? (A middle point between good and cancelling someone is possible too)

[proper silo]

I'll reserve my judgement on that until after the main character remembers that his love interest exists

[alpine drum]

I think having a different emotional relationship to the events in question is definitely a valid reason to dislike it. If you do not have said emotional relations its up to you.
Its ok to dislike something because it hurts others without hurting you.

[proper silo]

...I will say, this is one of the more jarring examples of two very different conversations going on at the same time

Sorry for interrupting the serious convo with my chuckling

[minor sleet]

Oh you’re at the part with the mega concussion

Or are you still not done with book 1?

[alpine drum]

Like, the stuff that Rowling espouses in Harry Potter doesnt really negatively impact me personally at all. I still find that that stuff turns me off of the book. (Note I am not conflating this book with Harry Potter)

[somber timber]

I take a look at how the atrocity is handled in the book/show/etc. like for example both attack on titan and andor || have some pretty obvious real world comps to fascism. To me one of them handles that well and the other has a child screaming how everybody is sheep and the military is always right. I stopped watching that one ||

[proper silo]

I am at chapter 6

[long sorrel]

This isn't a "this is how you should think" or anything of the sort. But here's my opinion on it. The complains aren't about bad portrayal which is something that I would dislike, the complains are that it is linked. It isn't intending to portray said event, simply something that inspired the author. And as such, I'm, personally, completely fine with it. The book does nothing harmful, and these people couldn't even connect the 2 things until the author himself said smoething, which imo goes to show that it isn't a portrayal, parallel or in any way prtending to be.
That isn't to say that people are in their right to be upset about something, I'd not take that from them. But this doesn't cross any of my moral boundaries.

[alpine drum]

Andor vague ||True, although even though i love Andor if someone said they didnt enjoy watching it because it hit too close to home I would consider that valid (edit: but not a reason for me to dislike the show)||

[long sorrel]

You do not have to agree with this, and if your opinion is that you should follow those that know better, that is absolutely valid. I'm just showing a different thought process.

[alpine drum]

-# Apologies for all my typos I am typing with one hand due to having gotten blood drawn from it

[somber timber]

|| yeah exactly and I think if that person was shouting that nobody should watch andor I would find that to be rather unserious based on the fact that I’ve seen the show and understand how it treats fascism ||

[alpine drum]

Suspicious Usha reaction

[somber timber]

Like inglorious bastards deals with the holocaust in a very visceral way and frankly somebody saying don’t watch it because it was inspired by the holocaust is rather… I just would consider that person to not be serious

[long sorrel]

the thing about this book is that it's really hard to link it to something, unlike AoT (or Andor, which I've not watched but I assume it is easily linkable)

So it is only because the author has said so that people are having this reaction (which valid), but it shows to me how unlinked it is

To me it read like a very very unsubtle (in a way i thought it wasn't very good writing) way to say "people hate others for being different and that's bad, but we should try to make a better world regardless"

[alpine drum]

I do, perhaps uncharitably, think that some of this negative reaction to the authors comments are virtue signaling

I am sure some are rooted in earnest emotions

[long sorrel]

I think I'd have a visceral reaction if I had lived through that and read this "oh yeah that inspired me"

Very possibly?

Heck Sanderson joking about Era 1 ||Ruin being like a man because you stick in the bit|| or whatever that wob said made me nearly gag

But I'd not call to cancelling, to me this is some sort of extreme

[alpine drum]

I imagine someone from Canada, particularly someone of native ancestry would probably pick up on the parallels mote easily

[long sorrel]

I think also that it is different to say something is inspired vs something is related. I think this is the line I'm personally drawing on it

[ivory cypress]

there is a bit... like... if I liked House on the Cerulean Sea more, I also might feel differently, but I didn't see the comparison, and finding out after made me go 🤨 like what... are you trying to say. we certainly learned about it in school and like.... the whole premise was cultural genocide, that the schools were there to "civilize" them. to erase the identity of who they were before. I cannot square what I know about it with what Klune wrote, and that that's the thing he said he drew from makes me go ???? more than a little side eye. I just have to assume or hope he didn't really dig into it or research it, because when I think about it too hard (book spoilers) ||like the kids ACTUALLY being devilish and are benefiting from the good people running that house, it kind of makes me a little insane||

I also have no feelings about if anyone likes it. the man should just never have said it was on his mind for the inspiration, cause separated from it, it's perfectly fine if very saccharine

have your own feelings about it. it can feel very guilt inducing to see other people have strong emotions, but it's good to learn the difference between something that is just external pressuring you vs something that is touching on an internal moral button of your own

[lusty meteor]

there is a big difference between writing something positively that resembles a bad thing that happened irl, and saying you took inspiration from the bad thing and then just wrote a version of that in a positive light

[tight kindle]

Y'all gave me a lot to think about. Thank you

(To be clear, that was what I was looking for)

[sleek jungle]

huh?

[mild lance]

finished The Sign of the Dragon!

what an incredible book

[snow vessel]

Starting swordcrossed 👀

I'm only at the end of ch1 ||but we're already getting a bit freaky, I see ||

||even if it is angry freaky||

Ch2 ||it's been like two seconds how are they both so down bad already ||

[long sorrel]

Sometimes all it takes is one look okay? 😤

[snow vessel]

Clearly

This is very fun so far

[long sorrel]

I hope you enjoy, I love Luca

[snow vessel]

I'm liking them both so far

I suspect luca will be the standout for me, based on the characters I tend to like, but we'll see

Ch3 ||hm. I wonder if his family will find out about whatever Luca's running from?||

[merry galleon]

I finally finished Murtagh! And it is so good, and I’m afraid what plans Paolini has for him next for the sequel and future books for this universe, but I’m here for it.

Murtagh ||Paolini appears to love torture us readers with the main characters|| my heart cannot take it, but I cannot stop loving it. I’m excited for the sequel now!

[quaint tendon]

do we think i can just reread eragon and eldest and then live an fantasy world for how the second half of brisingr and the entirety of inheritance go or nah

also Inheritance cycle general Inheritance THE BOOK all || i can appreciate and admire the decision to not type out True Names, but Inheritance for a single book title feels clunky as hell to me. i think it could have been cool to call the final book this "name of the ancient language" and not have context for that choice until the final battle with galby. but maybe thats just terrible fan fiction.||

also something for the wheel of time fans in the chat **inheritance general wheel of time general humor **|| Sloan the butcher is just a worse Cenn Buie and you cant convince me otherwise. at least Cenn has a modicum of redemption||

[wraith lynx]

TWK 5 ||cardan refusing to be a competent king is so annoying omg 😂||

||also Jude's exasperation/fed upness at pretty much everyone around her is so felt through the page, especially with her talking to Nicasia (who i also find annoying btw)||

[merry galleon]

Now that I finished the inheritance cycle (merely up to date), I need to fill in the dragon rider trope hole that this series has opened up. I’m interested in Ryan Cahill’s Bound and Broken series and intending to order some of the books, just waiting for some books to be released by another author to order together. But in the meantime, I’m reading The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima and Stronghold by Melanie Rawn.

[analog geode]

Temeraire

[merry galleon]

I’ll take a look

Thank you

[minor sleet]

The original: Anne McCaffrey

[merry galleon]

I got a couple of her books.

[stone hawk]

Alrighty, so I'm picking up Dresden. I'm assuming we've got some enthusiasts here. Any recommendations on reading order? Online I'm seeing people say to just pick up book 1 and go in publication order and catch the short stories as you go

[alpine drum]

I say just read the collections in their entirety in publication order with respect to the novels

So Side Jobs would be after Turn Coat and Brief Cases would be after Skin Game

[old flint]

And be prepared for the first two to be a bit weak.

[cloud socket]

Pern was my first SFF obsession before WOT and I adore it

The Ur example of dragonriders, I think

When I started reading bc Empyrean I kept thinking of the Pern dragonrider bonds

[idle trellis]

Any expanse fans here?

I gave it a shot a long time ago, I think I watched a couple of episodes

[mild lance]

One of my favorite book series. I’m sure quite a few people here feel the same way

[idle trellis]

nicee, I saw owlcat making a game in the universe

so it got me thinking about it, maybe this can give me the push I need to finish the series

[wet belfry]

There are enough of us that making a thread for it gets kicked around from time to time

[idle trellis]

Leviathan Wakes || This prologue certainly sets the mood, so what happened to this crew, they got eaten by some space virus? 🤔 🤔 ||

[analog geode]

||No, Kirby||

[drifting bridge]

||The most evil space creature ||

[wet belfry]

I think imma watch the show again

Its been long enough

[drifting bridge]

I never finished it. Did the book though

[long sorrel]

Hmmm~~

[wraith lynx]

Wanna know whats funny

Ive been foaming at the mouth for SoTF since MARCH. the release date is 3 days away and all I want to do is finish the folk of the air 😭

-# cosmic this wouldnt have been a problem if you just read in october

Who said that 👀

Its fine, the moment it gets in my hands its not coming out until its done

[craggy cargo]

Happy birthday cosmic!

(This time, not in advance)

[wraith lynx]

Thank you dova~

[snow vessel]

Oh, happy birthday cosmic!

Mm I'm definitely not gonna be ready for sotf this week

[wraith lynx]

SAME OMG IM SO HYPED!! and thank you haze

[snow vessel]

~~no as in I won't be finished the book I'm reading 😭 ~~

[royal carbon]

I might borrow it from the library so I get it in 12 weeks or whatever

[merry galleon]

This might be a bit late. But HAPPY BIRTHDAY COSMIC!

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 4 ||oh these fools ||

[quaint burrow]

2 days till Strength of the Few

[junior dew]

Oh happy belated birthday cosmic!

[merry galleon]

happy birthday

[craggy cargo]

@sleek jungle

Finished book 1 of the black fleet.

Definitely a big improvement over captain Blackjack Geary wins by virtue of not having room temperature IQ.

Overall liked it.

I did feel like there was... Well... Very little in it? If that makes sense. The plot moves slowly and the characters are pretty thin.

I feel like the writer has to be someone ex military or something just because of the tropes and themes.

Hurr durr, politicians suck, is like 90% of the social commentary.

[royal carbon]

I would call it popcorn

[craggy cargo]

It's definitely fun, i think if the pacing was faster it could be really amazing in terms of just pure enjoyment.

[royal carbon]

I vaguely remember them getting better on some of that

I haven't kept pace with all of the more recent books

[deft stream]

I entered a book giveaway and tomorrow I will get the results. Wish me luck

[idle trellis]

Good luck!

[sleek jungle]

from what i've read, it's 90% of the social commentary in the whole genre

at least the new wave, books written after the 90s

older books like Forever war and Starship troopers focused more on duty and the nature of war and things like that

[idle trellis]

Anyone here into Warhammer 40k?

[tight kindle]

There's a thread for it in https://discordapp.com/channels/304777819936784385/1404985581066522745 . We have a bunch I think

[idle trellis]

Thanks!

[wet belfry]

I've bounced off the first book several times for this reason

Didn't dislike it at all but god damn if there was any juice it was taking its sweet time getting to it

And I was at sea a couple of those times and still wanted it to move faster

[minor sleet]

“Not a sissy in the lot” she says, to the lesbian bar regulars group of Wonder Woman villains

[idle trellis]

Chapter 5 Leviathan Wakes|| Yep I remember this moment, the Canterbury blowin up is quite the hook, who blew it up? Was it someone who wanted to create conflict between factions? What about the space virus on the scopuli? What if it was aliens who did all of this? Where is Julia Mao? Did she die? Is Miller gonna find her? ||

[lusty meteor]

Chapter 5 of what

[alpine drum]

needs a book title, looks like Leviathan Wakes

[idle trellis]

Opps

[craggy cargo]

Poor man's fight chapter 2 ||Yes mr author please tell me more about this exam you definitely aren't drawing on real life frustration from.||

||Open ended questions are not that bad, man.||

||Also I despise and detest openings with pirates/criminals in sci fi settings ranting about economics.||

Minor spoilers for the cowboy bebop live action show ||This is entirely because I have trauma from the god awful cowboy bebop live action show.||

The voice actor for the audiobook deserves a massive raise.

This guy is going at it.

[vital ibex]

Assassins Apprentice ch2 ||Nosy 🙁 ||

[little dock]

Curious if anyone’s read the Skystone Chronicles by Blake and Raven Penn? I get ads for it pretty often and saw them in a new anthology of a lot of solid indie writers and I think they had a booth at Nexus last year.

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 4 ||oh golly this has just gotten a lot more complicated ||

[ripe tide]

I need essay opinions. I’m trying to choose a question for my Victorian literature essay. The works I’ll be choosing are definitely Wuthering Heights and North and South

But I have a lot of topics I can talk about for both. Im not going to cover exact questions, but here’s my poll.

[minor sleet]

Wow @crisp totem what are you doing in The Summer War by Naomi Novik

[long sorrel]

||do you mean everyone's more down bad? because damn||

[snow vessel]

||mmm nothing quite so fun, unfortunately||

[old bone]

@brazen pilot gonna start Malazan soon 🙏

[long sorrel]

i have a vague idea of where you're at

[snow vessel]

||this was finding out that sophia (?) isnt actually in love with... the guy who's been chasing her||

[long sorrel]

we have a thread for that btw #1404515195941945455

[long sorrel]

Oh yeah, that's awful

[old bone]

Oh nice. Probably won't talk much but good to know

[long sorrel]

yeah, same here

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 4 ||which makes the whole arranged marriage/luca-mattie romance thing more complicated||

[long sorrel]

||but also makes it so that she's just being stalked and harassed and that's 🤮 ||

[snow vessel]

||I figured we were setting up for an easy resolution of Sophia going with her guy, Mattie ending up Luca instead... but no 🤔 ||

[snow vessel]

||oh 100%||

[long sorrel]

easy

[snow vessel]

||This has mainly just thrown off the I-thought-obvious arc of the book, so I'm focusing a bit more on that right now 😅 ||

[long sorrel]

yeah, not going that way

[long sorrel]

(easy way that is)

[snow vessel]

||Here's to hoping he does challenge at the wedding so Luca can deal with him :p||

||Sophia seems nice, though. I hope she does get a good ending from this all||

[long sorrel]

||I do like her, it does make it more complicated because she's not a mc but you want her to be relevant right? Not just discarded or unhappy or ... yeah||

maybe i should reread

[snow vessel]

||yeah. It seemed like it was really set up to easily get her out of the way without her being unhappy, but now I'm a lot less sure and a lot more curious||

||I really hope the boys' antics dont end up screwing her over. I have faith though||

[long sorrel]

im ngl the story is good but I love the book for minor ||the smut part and the way it ... works||

[snow vessel]

Of course...

||I will say, I am glad we're sort of getting into the whole romance thing (even if they arent aware of it) very quickly. I'm definitely reading this for that, and so I'm glad thats... happening||

||maybe we can find out if its possible for smut I enjoy to be written ||

[long sorrel]

I think it wove the perfect amount for me

oh hmmm

well you know what ||I don't care about the actual sex but their attitude/interaction around it||

Wicked King all ||sort of how Cardan-Jude isn't about the actual action but all emotional and physical baggage on it?||

I know you liked that a lot more than me so not trying to say it is like that

but you get the idea

[snow vessel]

That's definitely more the sort of thing I'm looking for than anything else

Honestly I think it's kind of the same for action scenes for me, funnily enough 🤔

[long sorrel]

hmmmm

[snow vessel]

To a point its fun but I need something more to actually enjoy it, especially on reread

[long sorrel]

I think i like to read a good action scene more than a good sex scene when it comes down to like, how it's described?

[snow vessel]

Oh definitely

[long sorrel]

Like I will enjoy playing the entire scene in my head when it's action than the other

but yeah it doesn't really hold any weight if there's no more to it

[snow vessel]

It's not to the same extent, but I do find, especially on reread, some very popular action scenes fall a bit flat for me without some level of actual... something

Baggage

[long sorrel]

yup

[snow vessel]

Words of radiance all ||I think this is part of why the 4v1 fight fell below my expectations on my reread. It's a good fight but it's just kind of... a fight||

||its talked about so much but without really much beyond "such a tough battle" it didn't really hit as hard for me||

[long sorrel]

||Right? I think once you've no level of worry there isn't much to ti except "it's cool"||

[snow vessel]

Maybe an excellently described battle without emotional weight would work still for me, but this didn't really work like that

[long sorrel]

I think Sanderson individual battles... are... just fine?

[snow vessel]

||even then I kind of felt that, once the pov switched to kal, a lot of the momentum disappeared. So the coolness didn't really work for me||

[long sorrel]

yeah, they're etertaining and visual and that's it, for me

[snow vessel]

Not to derail this into cosmere 😅

[long sorrel]

it's a common ground example!

This is all about smut ofc

[snow vessel]

This is why one of my favourite sanderson battles remains [wor] ||dalinar fighting szeth and realising he never could've saved gavilar||

||it's such a small fight but the turning point for the character really works for me every time||

[long sorrel]

||the more i read Dalinar the more i hate him so the less everything works on a reread||

[snow vessel]

||him just realising "ok, I never could've won this"||

There's another example I want to use but I'm fairly sure you haven't read it

[long sorrel]

book?

[snow vessel]

Like, 99% sure. Unless you snuck it in amongst the 200 reads

Light bringer, red rising #6

[long sorrel]

ah no no

I've read only 5 ch of book 1

I'll get around to it

[snow vessel]

Yeahh I didn't remember you making it far into book 1

[jovial tide]

WoR ||It's a very good character moment, even though he's wrong. :p Szeth was way less skilled back then, Dalinar totally would have had a chance at winning.||

[long sorrel]

I put a pause on Raven Scholar cause i was super hangover yesterday and i needed something more light

so I've spent the last 24h reading 3 trash books 😌

now Im back to Raven Scholar

[snow vessel]

LB very vague ||there's a big fight where a main character realises their approach isn't working and makes peace with things and switches their whole strategy and that scene really works for me because of the whole... underlying arc of the fight||

||it's just got the growth of the character really built into it and I think that helps it stand out for me||

[long sorrel]

mhm

I think I'm a sucker for some very just "rule of cool" stuff

but they don't leave a mark you know?

[snow vessel]

Rule of cool is great until I reread it

[long sorrel]

i barely ever reread!

[snow vessel]

And then I realise it was a bit cooler in my memory + the moment than a reread can live up to

I don't reread too often but I do sometimes

[long sorrel]

WaT all ||coming to mind is Adolin fightig with a corpse until only a leg remains in his hand, damn goosebumps thinking about it makes me giddy||

[snow vessel]

I did most of stormlight before wat, and I've reread a few others I've really liked

[long sorrel]

i did reread all of the cosmere minus WaT

I need some space between WaT and a reread, maybe after ghostbloods is out or when SA6 is closer, or whenever i feel like it

I have been pushing off rereading TCP, relishing the moment of anticipation

Yes, I'm edging myself about rereading TCP

[snow vessel]

I didn't finish my stormlight reread, I doubt I could finish the whole cosmere again

[old bone]

I had finished my reread before WaT

Thankfully

[long sorrel]

OH CRAP TODAY'S 10TH

[snow vessel]

I've been meaning to reread that whole trilogy. I reread Wicked king and really loved it earlier this year

[old bone]

Strength of the few tomorrow :letsgooo:

[long sorrel]

tomorrow's 11th!

[snow vessel]

I think I will enjoy TFOTA even more with my expectations set

Because a lot of them did things I didn't expect with the plot, so I took some time to adjust

[long sorrel]

I'm looking more forward to Kingfisher!

[snow vessel]

...yeah no way I'm going to be ready for sotf

[long sorrel]

but I'm looking forward to reading SotF with everyone that's hype here

[snow vessel]

stares at 200+ pages left of MT

[long sorrel]

I've 4 books coming out tomorrow

[snow vessel]

And I only just started swordcrossed so I can't even consider doing audio

[old bone]

I have one book in ongoing but only 40 pages left so can manage 🙏

[snow vessel]

I've been on MT for weeks and probably will be for another

[old bone]

MT?

[long sorrel]

I have put my malazan on pause

like many other things

my head is a mess and it shows in my reading patterns this year

[snow vessel]

Midnight tides, malazan #5

[old bone]

Hopefully not Mushoku Tensei endnight

nice

[snow vessel]

I'm fine taking a while with MT because last time I tried to rush a malazan book I didn't love it

Well I was already not loving it but I think the rushing may have made it worse

[old bone]

Malazan got to work for me

[snow vessel]

I've definitely totally deviated from my usual reading genres in a lot of places this year

[old bone]

It's the final long series I have hope for

[snow vessel]

Way less epic fantasy, way more romance-y stuff, gothic-y stuff

[old bone]

Gothic-y good

[snow vessel]

I'm enjoying it so far, but it's definitely a lot. I think some of the format also just means like... you'll probably enjoy some books a lot more than others quite naturally

Even when I don't love some books or povs I usually appreciate what they're doing

[old bone]

I have effective dropped reading Cosmere for a while due to disappointment so need something bigger and better

so Zan was the only remaining option :kekge:

[long sorrel]

oh, genres i don't mind it's the fact that I've currently have 9 books ongoing 🫠

[old bone]

Pizza told me I'd love it so I am gonna trust him

[old bone]

I can't even handle more than 1 now

used to be able to do 3

[long sorrel]

I am considering making myself finish them this year and start next year with a clean slate, but at the same time, not gonna force myself you know?

[long sorrel]

I hate it

[snow vessel]

Malazan is a very specific thing, I think, and depending on whether you like it or not will depend whether the series works or not

[snow vessel]

I'm technically sitting on 5 I think, really working through 3

[old bone]

I want a large scale full of emotional catharsis

[snow vessel]

Because I've paused Kushiel's Dart ans VHD

[long sorrel]

I'm working through, technically, only Raven Scholar right now

[old bone]

VHD?????

[snow vessel]

You will definitely get the first, I'm less sure about the second being only half way through

[long sorrel]

the rest are all paused at like... ch 5?

[snow vessel]

Vampire Hunter D

[old bone]

You are reading VHD and you didn't tell me

:sad:

[snow vessel]

my bad

[old bone]

It's like among my fav series

[snow vessel]

Oh really?

[old bone]

and my fav world

[long sorrel]

oh?

[old bone]

Well top 4 world

[snow vessel]

I've only read the first story so far, meaning to work through the next two across nov-december

[long sorrel]

sell it to me! I could be reading 11 books at once!

[snow vessel]

I own the omnibus of 1-3

[snow vessel]

So far as I've read it's like scifi post apocalypse vampire western

[old bone]

nah I will not. You need to start new year with clean slate

[snow vessel]

If that... is coherent at all

[old bone]

No

[snow vessel]

No?

[long sorrel]

I know of vamp hunter D

but I've never gotten to it

[snow vessel]

I'm decently enjoying it so far

[old bone]

post apocalyptic futuristic nearing to new apocalypse vampire western

[snow vessel]

It definitely has some... 🤨 moments but it's fun

[snow vessel]

Is that not the same thing as what I said...

Is futuristic and scifi that different

[old bone]

It's nearing next apocalypse!!!!

[snow vessel]

Ohhh fair

[long sorrel]

futuristic is within scifi but not backwards? I guess

[old bone]

|| Decay of society and it is like the main driving force of the story || vhd

[long sorrel]

dystopian?

[snow vessel]

Not totally

Collapsing/post- dystopia, I would say

[long sorrel]

i love me some dystopian settings

[old bone]

Slow decay

So yeah collapsing

Have you watched the two movies Endnight

they are like the better entry point to get hooked into story before committing to 30 translated books

[snow vessel]

I've not

I saw a few pictures of D from them and thought he looked pretty though

I think that was where it was from

[old bone]

Yeah

[snow vessel]

I've read the first story, Vampire Hunter D and own 2 and 3

Those ill get to sometime in December probably

[old bone]

First story just introduces to the world

The characterizations are veeery rough

[long sorrel]

there are a lot of shots frmo the movie around the internet just because of the aesthetic

[snow vessel]

Mmm it definitely felt simple but in an enjoyable way

[old bone]

But its also a book you can knock our in like 2 hours

[snow vessel]

Like once I accepted the story we were doing it was pretty easy to sit back and go with

[old bone]

Great palate cleanser

[snow vessel]

Mmm yeah my plan was to fit them in between books, because they're shorter and seem to be easier

I'll probably read #2 after I finish MT, because I'm not getting to sotf on time and don't have another book I'm super leaning towards

[long sorrel]

Looking at SotF, I can buy it for 20 bucks or 12 ...

[old bone]

SoTF and Quicksilver 2 are only ones in my November read

Gonna be a good time hopefully

[snow vessel]

Quicksilver like the... fae Romania's?

*romantasy holy autocorrect

[old bone]

First book of latter had good smut

[old bone]

yes

[long sorrel]

Oh, Quicksilver 2 comes out now?

[old bone]

in 16 I think

[long sorrel]

I am so very torn about wanting to read that or not

[snow vessel]

Im ngl I've only heard people complaining about it

[long sorrel]

It's so bad it's sometimes good?

but sometimes forgettable

[old bone]

It had like some of best written smut I have read in a long while

[snow vessel]

That's one I'm not going to read

[old bone]

but everything else was so bad

but also fun at times

[snow vessel]

oh lord it's getting late for me

[long sorrel]

One thing that stood was that mild NSFW ||The author read like she understood sex more than... almost any other smut I've read, like the sex felt real?||

[old bone]

EXACTLY

[old bone]

.

[long sorrel]

but... even so still wasn't very good imo, but it was entertaining

The thing is ... I don't really care about that

[snow vessel]

I've literally only heard [quicksilver] ||people complaining about the guy ignoring her boundaries this is my whole impression of the book||

[long sorrel]

That seems standard for that type of book

[old bone]

Have you not heard about certain || Juices plot point? || qs

[snow vessel]

I really need to be going, I think

[long sorrel]

Oh no....

[snow vessel]

screams in acomaf

[long sorrel]

Oh no not like that

Or well, I've not read acomaf

But it is a bit more... like

[snow vessel]

I just remember the love interest doing whatever he wanted and ignoring every boundary or anything just so he could be annoying about how great he is 😒

[long sorrel]

Quicksilver minor/general ||There are things like him having the smell sense of a superpowered hound not like he can help what he can smell you know ||

[snow vessel]

Ah, yes

I've heard about that

[long sorrel]

It is to a point that if this was RL I'd be like "call the police"

but because it's fiction it's more like... it doesn't cross a line I care about

[snow vessel]

This wasn't even necessarily that bad to be fully abusive from memory, it was just really really annoying

Yeah I need to be going bye folks 👋

[old bone]

Byee

[long sorrel]

Anyway, I think I'm certainly not going to go gett hat book on launch, I've got better things to read

Also the plot is awful

[old bone]

It'd really bad yea

but so bad its fun

and its a buddy read with my gf

[long sorrel]

fair, i think you mentioned that

when you read the first

[crisp totem]

I am in all the books!

[low hill]

@long sorrel As requested, only a week "late" due to illness...

Pile 1: free books that came with the convention ticket.
Pile 2: books I bought there.
Pile 3: books that coincidentally turned up when I got home.
Pile 4: books I acquired from my parents this weekend which I might as well include.

[long sorrel]

Empire of the Dawn is book 3?

[low hill]

Yeah. Came out just now.

[long sorrel]

I was aware it came late this year yeah

I still find it funny I saw the guy so many times I ended up dreaming with him

Sadly I don't feel super compelled to read book 2

I will, eventually

Actually judging based on the end of book 1 I think I'll like 2 better

Ah, Empire of the Damned is 2, I couldn't remember

Sounds vaguely Anne Rice

[ripe tide]

Speaking of new books, these are all the ones I’ve gotten since I’ve been here. ADoW was a gift from my friends for my birthday.

[long sorrel]

@wraith lynx I'm checking out Ascendant from Vecna's pictures and this for some reason, is screaming Cosmic at me

(some reason being dragon riders)

[ripe tide]

Remind me what Ascendant is about?

[low hill]

Oh, missed one off the also bought pile, because it was in a different bag.

[long sorrel]

Once Upon a Dream is book 2 in a series? Have you read the first one A Whole New World?

[royal carbon]

I need to read more, still have most of DCC7 to read plus a book club book.

[ripe tide]

Those titles are so Disney coded.

[long sorrel]

That is what they are seemingly

retelling of "disney stories"

[ripe tide]

Ahhh

[long sorrel]

the fact that it's calling it "disney stories" kinda sends me very bad signals

since these stories aren't disney originally...

[low hill]

Blurb is in the spoiled image.

[ripe tide]

I have big opinions about Once Upon a Dream and how famous it is for Disney sleeping beauty and how much of an insignificant piece it is in the ballet.

[long sorrel]

I assume if it's calling it retelling of "disney stories" it means it is based on the disney telling and the retold

[low hill]

Nope. Was presumably just something donated to mum's museum. That's where most of the second hand stuff via her comes from.

[long sorrel]

I see, so no clue

[ripe tide]

I think THIS was the book I was thinking of the other day I thought had been talked about in another server.

[ripe tide]

Your mom has a museum?!

[long sorrel]

Well, if/when you get it I'd like to know how it is. I love fairytales not "disney stories" so I'm very torn on this

[low hill]

She volunteers at one. Runs the secondhand bookshop, among other things. Which is why I get so many free books. :⁠-⁠P

[ripe tide]

Oh really nice.

[low hill]

Again... In a different bag.

[long sorrel]

Oh

[low hill]

"How many bags did you bring back, Vecna?" I hear you asking.
"No comment", I am answering.

[long sorrel]

what a cute cover

[long sorrel]

I wouldn't dare, as many as it was needed, duh.

[long sorrel]

yes, I love the covers

I have... something by this author in my tbr, what was it I don't remember

[low hill]

Invisible Library.

[long sorrel]

... Thanks

[low hill]

It's the other thing she's written, and I guessed you didn't mean the Exalted 2e core rulebook. :⁠-⁠P
-# Which I did get her to sign as well...

[ripe tide]

Oh that cover looks great.

[ripe tide]

I will be eternally mad that I think these aren't in any of my libraries on libby

[ripe tide]

I need to continue that series at some point

[long sorrel]

i just realized they used the same sentence on every cover

which looks kinda lame

marketing

[low hill]

Yup...

[alpine drum]

Not quite the same, apparently H.G. Parry stopped loving Scarlet by the time the 3rd book came out

[long sorrel]

A [insert genre] as it ought to be written, even

[alpine drum]

https://tenor.com/view/george-rr-martin-interview-gif-3550588

(No, I don't know why GRRM was doing a red carpet interview at a Playboy event. I would prefer not to know)

[long sorrel]

Oh my [redacted], I didn't realize that's what's happening

I just thought "yeah yeah that's the joke"

and then you had to mention it and now I can't unsee it

[wraith lynx]

Oooo I see 👀👀

[wraith lynx]

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[long sorrel]

It felt blasphemous to not ping you

[wraith lynx]

Im glad you know me that well, thanks 😂

[mild lance]

“Argent was very handsome” did you write this?

[crisp totem]

If I don't do it, who will??

[untold leaf]

Avatar; City of Echoes 16 + ATLA S2 E15 ||A third of the way into the book, we finally get to read Jin and Zuko's date from Jin's perspective and it's so sweet! I really like how this book doesn't just center her character on that one appearance in Tales of Ba Sing Se, but makes that scene just another scene in her life as she goes on her own journey. The scene that defined her in the show is not what defines her in this book, and I think that's good character writing.||

[minor sleet]

Naomi Novik apparently

[royal carbon]

I have met both and they seemed to be different people

[proper silo]

Halfway through vol1 of Thousand Autumns, I'm beginning to think the author expects me to be familiar with ancient Chinese politics Either that, or taking copious amounts of notes

The book is interesting and I like both main characters, but it's definitely an uphill battle to get invested in the plot

Thousand Autumns 19 ||Actually, I'm not sure what the plot is since we've apparently solved what I thought was the central mystery already 🤔 ||

[minor sleet]

Yeah, this is the danmei I’ve read that closest to the style of Jin Yong

Who is often compared to Tolkien but his wuxia stories were tied directly to Chinese history

[proper silo]

🤔 I see... Though I admit I'm not that versed in Chinese literature

[minor sleet]

I’m not either

But I found a translation of a Jin Yong novel and I really liked it

[proper silo]

What was it called?

[minor sleet]

Legend of the Condor Heroes

[proper silo]

The name sounds familiar, but I don't think I've read it before; thanks!

Thousand Autumns 25 ||Knowing that Yan Wushi is gonna fall for Shen Qiao eventually, watching him pretend to be in love with him is like having schadenfreude in advance. ||

||This is gonna backfire on him so bad once he develops real feelings||

[long sorrel]

that sounds really funny

[proper silo]

The MC is an incredible troll and I cannot wait to see him reap what he's sowing rn 😌

[long sorrel]

I swear these settings just sound so fun in like a fun way

but damn it's so many words for that...

Like, I'll read something that's just fun and not much else for me for a book or two

maybe three

but... points at Erha, y'know

[proper silo]

For what it's worth, Thousand Autums is only 4 volumes long

So not nearly Erha-sized

[alpine drum]

more like Four Autums

[long sorrel]

still a lot lol

for me, who isn't super into this genre past ocasionally light fun

I'm sure I'll continue Erha eventually but I feel no compelling anything for it

[proper silo]

[minor sleet]

Yan Wushi is such a jackass

I love him so much

Like Shen Qiao, he’s exactly who he is no matter what or how often it would be to easier to be someone else

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns general ||I love that this book is like, here's the political situation based on history of China and realistic issues that arise from conflicts of interests that the heroes have to deal with, and also in the same chapter here's Mr Face Skinner, he skins people's faces and wears them as his own, it's a fetish thing||

That's why I love danmei xianxia, no other genre has quite mastered this bizarre combo of high fantasy, horror, and horny

[proper silo]

He is very fun to read about, for sure

[untold leaf]

I got ahold of one of my library holds! I had three books on hold and was notified that one was available. The library didn't specify which one. So I drove over there today hoping it would be "The Will of the Many" and expecting it to be "Six of Crows", so I managed to manipulate myself into being surprised that it was "Tales of Newel and Doren".

[ivory cypress]

every time i think i'm closing in on finishing T Kingfisher's whole bibliography i keep stumbling across more books i've never heard of

[wraith lynx]

Giving this to my hypothetical manager 🥴

[alpine drum]

definitely a coincidence but the ASOIAF wiki (which is pretty good in terms of content) that's run by one of GRRM's coauthors for the World of Ice and Fire notably has a pro AI art policy
where AI art has replaced fanart for various character's main portraits
here's the art being accused of being ai generated for reference https://imgur.com/a/affc-anniversary-edition-possible-ai-et59wvZ

and yeah, even if this were not ai art it's just not good representations of the characters or the world

[hollow hedge]

there was one shot that just looked like Warcraft characters that I really rolled my eyes at, and then another that depicted one of the Stark girls as Aloy from Horizon

[alpine drum]

I haven't seen the Aloy one

I doubt GRRM was involved with this but yeat it does portray a lack of care from the people putting the book together

[hollow hedge]

AFFC ||https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FG5AT-DYXUAAz4dT.jpg||

[tight kindle]

Would send this to my speech instructor as a joke if I had speech tomorrow

I'm not friendly enough with any of my other professors to send it to them

[long sorrel]

I love this

[minor sleet]

She keeps putting her backlog out at the same time as she writing new stuff. Most unhelpful if her

[long sorrel]

what book was it this time? 👀

But also Snake-Eater in a few hours 👀

[ivory cypress]

I picked up Bryony and Roses, but then it recommended The Raven and the Reindeer

there HAVE to be more than this

[long sorrel]

aaah, Raven and Reindeer is great!

It's the one I used to get Mia into Kingfisher 👀

Bryony and Roses was fine but I do think it shows as being a bit on the older side of her books? And it is less interesting setting to me overall

[ivory cypress]

oooh!!

[long sorrel]

I think I've read all her fairytale retellings but... as you have pointed out I'm not sure

[somber timber]

Wait that wiki always had solid art

The hell they gotta fill it with slop for

[snow vessel]

glances at sotf release day
glances at 200~ pages left on MT
cries

Oh hey I'm at 74% on two books I'm reading

[long sorrel]

nothing is stopping you from starting another book

[snow vessel]

Of course you say that

SOTF is just going to have to wait, I think

That'll give me a chance to reread the end of WOTM though, if I'm not locked into reading it at a certain time, so maybe this is good

[untold leaf]

Very true. I'm only 40% through my Avatar book and I'm starting the new Fablehaven book. Fortunately, that one is close to novella length and probably won't take that long to finish.

[ivory cypress]

I'm so behind on my new stuff

it's the time of year for lots of new releases though

[ripe tide]

Im so behind on everything.

I had to compromise on finishing chapter 1 of Beloved and pausing it. I want to finish it eventually. Chapter 1 btw is like 60 percent of the book.

[ivory cypress]

still have to read nameless land, queen demon, in addition to my older books on my list, rereading the star scroll and trying out swordspoint

[long sorrel]

Oh yeah! You didn't read Nameless Land, I forgot

[ivory cypress]

🥲 i gotta carve out some reading time soon

[long sorrel]

mhmmm, I want to say things but I don't want to give you cues into things 😩

but alas, you will eventually read when you want/get time for it and I shall wait patiently

[ivory cypress]

👀 mmmmmmmm uh oh

[cunning estuary]

Think my boss will accept it?

[tight kindle]

The what

The what book

There's a new Fablehaven book?!?

Oh
Novella length

[proper silo]

I've come up with a drinking game for Thousand Autumns

[long sorrel]

Oh no

[proper silo]

whenever the narration says "in an instant, they exchanged several/dozens/hundreds of blows", take a sip

guaranteed to send you to the hospital before you're done with a single volume

(it's lowkey really funny how first half of volume 1 was like, barely any fighting, and now Shen Qiao can't go two steps without someone either challenging him to a fight, or someone in his vicinity getting challenged to a fight)

[wraith lynx]

me, glancing at the wicked king: I hate to agree but..... 😭

[snow vessel]

-# TWK is worth it...

[minor sleet]

This is a good drinking game for any wuxia novel

[snow vessel]

-# and then you can go into tQON...

[minor sleet]

And by good I mean good for the liquor store

[merry galleon]

is the will of many very good?

[versed agate]

it's pretty good
(currently (re)listening to the audiobook, and it's dragging my opinion down a little)

and now I summon @wraith lynx to give a glowing review

[wraith lynx]

YES IT IS 🫵🏽

Thank you null

Its so intense and fun and exciting and great and im so excited to get the second one

[snow vessel]

I enjoyed wotm a lot. I'd recommend it

[junior dew]

IMO it’s a fun book and worth checking out but I wasn’t blown away. I am definitely looking forward to seeing where Strength of the Few goes though. WoTM felt like a setup book imo

I think I have one of the lower opinions of WoTM than most here though. And I still thought it was enjoyable

[snow vessel]

I would definitely agree that, even if the book does not entirely feel like set-up, it very much fills a set-up book role

Like, lots happens in a way that maybe other set up books/arcs don't always have, imo, but especially by the end it's very clear that it's just laying the groundwork for the next book

[craggy cargo]

I'd say WotM was my favourite read in a decent while if we remove IotE.

Mostly because I had an incredibly long and consecutive list of misses from January of 2025.

So I'd say I loved it.

[snow vessel]

Wotm would probably be among the upper two tiers of my reads this year, but I've had a pretty solid reading year

[craggy cargo]

I think I've had my worst year by a wide margin.

Since like, i was 17 or something when I was doing no reading.

There have been like 28 books this year that I'd rate less than 3-4/10.

[long sorrel]

That sounds awful

[craggy cargo]

A lot of it is self inflicted and well... Seven out of those books were horrible but it was an enjoyable experience due to my wife reading them aloud and us laughing at it.

But aside from that... Yeah.

Idk why I reread second apocalypse tbh.

[zinc flicker]

Methinks Imma try T Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel series. Added it to my list. Once my busy season is over I might check it out.

[uncut shoal]

I just started looking at these because I'm not a GRRM fan, but the weirdo candlestick in a library full of paper is pretty hilarious

[snow vessel]

I've kind of had the opposite. Not sure I'd call it my best year, but I've found a lot of new capital-F Favourite books and series this year

[long sorrel]

I think you'd like them. The paladins are very you I think

[zinc flicker]

Yeah. Paladins + chivalrous + romance sounds amazing

[sleek jungle]

???????????????????
LET ME IN

[random dome]

I genuinely have no idea what kind of book Will of the Many is, all I know is that every time I open this channel in search of The Cruel Prince talk a part of my brain still goes "why are so many people talking about the Destiny 1 raid 'Wrath of the Machine'" and then I remember

[snow vessel]

That was me but with warrior of the mind from EPIC

It took me so long to train my brain out of wotm being an acronym for that

...hey folks do we reckon wind and truth will win the 2025 goodreads choice fantasy category

[ivory cypress]

ope, found another one: The Halcyon Fairy Book

[untold leaf]

Yeah, it's a short little side-story about Newel and Doren.

But it just came out this year, so yeah.

I had that freaking book on hold for months on Libby, and when it finally became available, I didn't use the app that day, so my hold just expired because I didn't open it. Poof, all waiting progress gone, just like that. Renewed it and was told it was several months wait again.

Feeling very put off by that, I found an alternative solution:

going to an actual library

[analog geode]

Gotta set up notifications

[untold leaf]

Yup

[analog geode]

I hate my local library

[untold leaf]

Found out my library had a single copy that someone had checked out, so I put it on hold and only had to wait a single week. Now I have the physical copy. That's how I found this book is small. Like, really more a novella than a novel.

[untold leaf]

Notifications adjusted. Thanks for reminding me. 👍

[light drum]

A Memory Called Empire full review
Ok this books was amazing, amazing political Intrige, amazing believable characters with complex motivations, also I adore main characters. As what I probably would consider xenofiction it succedes in every aspect I could ever want and is a definite ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ (also lesbians).

Spoilers || I enjoyed the plot a lot, a few things were predictable such as the death of the emperor in the sun temple but I put that down as good foreshadowing. I really felt like mahied exploring a brand new world, one that was amazing and intoxicating and I understand her love you her wolrd and the one she wishes she could be a part of, and I think her budding relationship with three seagrass really helps show that in a physical form. The Imago is a incredibly cool thing and further enchances just how unprepared and alone she feels while discovering the mystery amidst the threat of her peoples annihilation||

[mild lance]

Name of the Wind general ||Kvothe moment||

[uncut shoal]

Truth haha

[tight kindle]

STRENGTH OF THE FEW TODAYYYYYYYYY

[low hill]

Go to sleep...

[tight kindle]

sigh
It's probably a good thing I didn't buy an ebook

I really hope the store got it in on time 😭

[cunning estuary]

I loved it, and the sequel releases today

[cunning estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/sugar-creepy-cottoncandy-gif-8069083

LETS GOOOOO

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 5 ||lorddd these two freaks need to calm down||

[snow vessel]

||guys we're only on ch5, you can rein it in||

Ch5 ||seriously ||

[grim veldt]

[Red Rising prologue/blurb] || Is it me, or do dystopias where the underclass is one colour and the upper class is another always have red as the underclass 🤔
Red is subjugatable, IG ||

[long sorrel]

I've not read that one!

Lmao Grey, please keep posting what you find

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 6 ||...I might have zoned out once or twice too much in the last two chapters||

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-song-they-dont-stop-comming-dance-gif-13758880

My spoiler free review of this inevitable ruin so far

[grim veldt]

Is that Russel T Davies, current showrunner of the long-running science-fiction series Doctor Who?

[quaint tendon]

Yes, Russel t Davies, apparently peaked with writing the song All Star

Which. Tbh

Makes a lot of sense

https://tenor.com/view/love-and-monsters-doctor-who-dr-who-tumblr-elton-pope-gif-21657829

Can’t be worse than any of the other gifs from this episode that i definitely can’t post in here

[junior dew]

We continue

Will be very interesting to see what I think of this without all of the hype buildup

[long sorrel]

I've so much work to do!

But booooks

[sleek jungle]

WE'RE IN
HEHEHE

[junior dew]

SoTF 1 + Cradle || Having once again jumped over from cradle, “How do we get past the remnants” is momentarily disorienting ||

[snow vessel]

Ahh time for me to withdraw from this channel before I spoil myself

[alpine drum]

Could people react to this message if they are reading Strength of the Few? I am curious

[long sorrel]

like, in a bad way?

[snow vessel]

Oh I just had a few moments of "wait what's going on?"

Nothing I couldn't figure out easily from context clues but I just missed a few little moments

I've just been listening to this book in slightly busier spaces than usual

[alpine drum]

Actually I'll just do a poll

[long sorrel]

are we going to jail? /j

[snow vessel]

Forum quarantine for all of you /j

-# Or whatever its called. Thread? Forum?

[alpine drum]

Just curious, this isnt binding (also the no vote is pretty useless i guess)

[quaint tendon]

This book is

Is it a sequel to that Will of the many?

[snow vessel]

Yes

[alpine drum]

Yep

[low hill]

-# Forums are collections of Threads.

[quaint tendon]

I’m going off of naming conventions

[snow vessel]

Right

[quaint tendon]

What’s WOTM about

[snow vessel]

Are the threads in channels also called threads?

[low hill]

Yes.

[snow vessel]

I don't remember my discord terminology

[junior dew]

Guy in school

[long sorrel]

Lol, worst description i've ever read

[quaint tendon]

I petition to call them fibers

Fibers make up threads

So sub thread is a fiber

[junior dew]

Why thank you

[snow vessel]

There's a society in which people give part of their "will" to the upper classes, and this society has been expanding. The book follows a guy from one of the conquered nations who enters their academy to try to uncover a plot

Someone else can probably give a more dramatic/exciting summary but that's the basics so far as I remember

[junior dew]

See

Guy in school

[quaint tendon]

Hm word

[snow vessel]

Guy in school is definitely not wrong

[quaint tendon]

Maybe I’ll check it out some day

Yall have seemed to really enjoy it

[snow vessel]

Waitttt [wotm all sotf theory] ||if the will of the many is the will of all the people, is the strength of the few the strength of the 2-3 vis's??||

[quaint tendon]

I have series I am dedicated to

So I can’t really do it now

Gotta grab The Pilot when my audible credit shows up

[snow vessel]

IMO it was very solidly and enjoyably written with an ending that sets up a lot of interesting stuff for book 2

It's not necessarily ground breaking in plot but it felt, for me, very well executed

[quaint tendon]

Annnnnd I got HWFWM 8 last month

Right on

[long sorrel]

general WotM ||It's basically a pyramid scheme, having more will than you should allows you to have extra abilities/powers. So each tier takes a bunch from the lower tiers. The lower tiers are then, below what's normal and the rest are above (being able to have "magic" basically). This works a bit like Warbreaker if you will. ||

[junior dew]

Yeah it was a solid book. Compelling, smooth read with enough interesting threads to carry it along. It sets things up for what’ll hopefully be a much stronger second entry.

[snow vessel]

-# general what?

[long sorrel]

Snake-Eater is in my local store!

[snow vessel]

I might try to sort out sorf as a Christmas read 🤔

[quaint tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/general-kenobi-general-grievous-revenge-of-the-sith-star-wars-gif-26397323

[snow vessel]

Part of me wants to do a malazan book as my proper Christmas period read because I did last/this year though

[quaint tendon]

Hmmm nice

[snow vessel]

I have enough left on MT to delay sotf but not enough to read to fully bridge the gap between now and then

Well, not enough that I'm super excited for

[quaint tendon]

Winter brings the tidings of my wife starting wheel of time

[snow vessel]

But I do want to reread the end of wotm because I've definitely forgotten a lot

[quaint tendon]

And so I plan to reread with her

[long sorrel]

It does bother me so that SotF is 12€ in kobo store and 19 in my local store 😩

Because that's a difference enough that I'll buy the 12€ one

at least Kingfisher is the same price and drm free in both

[snow vessel]

Oh maybe ill read vicious or house of leaves between now and Christmas

Eh, that's all future stuff. I can sort that out later

Vicious has been on my list for a while and seems fun, HoL I want to be able to spend more time on if I need to and so holidays-ish period would work well

[long sorrel]

organizing and reorganizing my reads in my head, even fully aware that's not going to happen, is a fun pastime

[snow vessel]

Mmm or I could do A Discovery of Witches given I've already requested it from the library...

Lord why did I decide to read all my long books right at the same time

[long sorrel]

Though right now I'm reading Snake Eater then SotF I think

[sleek jungle]

sotf 1 ||"not a will platform as you'd understand it" so, still will? not another form of "energy"|| + licanius all ||so it isn't another essence and kan situation||

[junior dew]

SoTF 1 || We’re finally getting the gorilla in the phone booth. Finally ||

[wraith lynx]

Are you reading this for the first time?? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 we are so back

HOW DO YOU ALL HAVW SOTF ALREADY

[grim veldt]

I am indeed!

[wraith lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/eevee-jumps-gif-2696845723667273642

Buckle up for peak its utterly fantastic

[junior dew]

Gotta get that brekky listening in

[long sorrel]

okay, acquired all books 👀

[junior dew]

Also because I am leaning into incorrect spellings
SOTF 1 || The brother’s name will be C-Roar. Because it’s amusing ||

[long sorrel]

noooo

[wraith lynx]

spooky 😭

[junior dew]

I may have to roll back on that one because now I internally chuckle when I hear the name

This book is already infinitely more interesting than book 1 and I’m still on the first chapter

[long sorrel]

that is what i felt with the preview alone lol

[junior dew]

The first book I think is really guilty of the gorilla in the phone booth problem Brandon mentions in his writing class.

It breadcrumbs this really interesting stuff in front of you here and there and then they’re like “guy in school”. And you’re like but there’s a gorilla in a phone booth. I must know more. And in response? “Guy in school”

[junior dew]

Preview was just the first chapter or more than that?

[long sorrel]

I think less than one?

I cannot tell you without reading the book =P

[junior dew]

Haven’t read licanius but I started the prologue or first chapter and was really interested. But life happened. My gf thinks I’d really like the worldbuilding, and based on my memory of looking at that prologue or first chapter I’m inclined to agree

[junior dew]

Ahh lol makes sense

Yeah I’m jumping off of Underlord to read this now because I want to experience it without anybody else setting expectations for it

I am mildly worried now about the Red Rising read next year given how that one has been hyped up

[versed agate]

Sooon.
Possibly this weekend. Opening hours suck

[junior dew]

This is why I’m glad that I’m so partial to audiobooks

[long sorrel]

I'm going in thinking that'll probably be a good story

[versed agate]

I have learnt that I can't do my first read on audiobook

[junior dew]

Very fair! I am so sorry

[long sorrel]

but so far the writing is rough and the dialogue is rough and... everything's rough.

[versed agate]

no attention span for it 😔

[junior dew]

If I couldn’t do audiobooks, making time to read would be so much more stressful for me. Since I have a very tenuous relationship with time as a whole and my multitude of hobbies that I bounce between.

I do a lot of my listening either while driving, cooking, cleaning, or eating

[junior dew]

Red rising?

[long sorrel]

yep

[junior dew]

Oof

[long sorrel]

The setting seems interesting though

[wraith lynx]

yeahhhhhh book one is rough

[junior dew]

My expectation is that book 1 is rougher and then things get good basically

[wraith lynx]

Pretty much exactly that actually 😂

[long sorrel]

Mhm, I just didn't expect this brand of rough

I've read rougher but it bothered me less

[wraith lynx]

Especially the last 3, those are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[junior dew]

Good to know! Glad to have that expectation set for me in advance! Thanks!

[versed agate]

I recently grabbed the first book of his other series from the library.
It sat on my desk for several weeks until I had to take it back 😭

[long sorrel]

I've read 5 chapters only

so my experience is only that

[junior dew]

Fair!

Gah so many books to read

So much other stuff to do

[versed agate]

I've forgotten all the books that were on my tbr.
Just in time for people to be asking what I want for Christmas

[junior dew]

Lol

[long sorrel]

I can give you lists of books you want for Christmas! 😈

[vital ibex]

Idk if the quality of writing changed all that much through the initial trilogy

Not read further than that

(Of red rising)

[junior dew]

I’m still sad I didn’t just use all 54 Audible credits when I had the chance

[long sorrel]

Red Rising 5 ||I just want the mc to stop being so mfing cheesy i can't take it, it's roughly written and it hits me in the "I find this utterly gross" camp, not because it doesn't make sense but because I personally hate it.||

||Please, become angst or die, thanks||

[wraith lynx]

omg the second triolgy is miles better you should get around to it when you can!

[vital ibex]

This absolutely does not change through the trilogy

This very very much stays the same

[long sorrel]

Then I legitimately might not be able to read it

I will continue until I decide so myself, mind you

but if it doesn't stop i just won't go on

[random dome]

Yessss A Memory Called Empire is so excellent. Such a perfect blend of great characters, deep themes, and rich worldbuilding all together

[vital ibex]

RRch5 ||Mind you, cheesy in what way?||

[junior dew]

Sotf 1 All || “Easy. We kill a god.” I am so in for this. Can we just never go back to Rez? Please?

Also I wonder if Lukium is going to be a wildly different deviation that ends up with an antagonistic version of Vis ||

[long sorrel]

||Like... his thoughts are all about how lovely his wife (now dead) is like non-stop||

[junior dew]

SoTF II || Sigh, back at Rez. Expected of course. But still.

This better be bouncing between at least Rez and Obatium frequently. Every other chapter would be nice. If we spend 90% of time in Rez I’ll be so disappointed ||

Anyways I spent too much time messaging here so I only got to do chapter 1. More after work I suppose

[sleek jungle]

Same tags ||ch 2 is in Luceum, though||

[junior dew]

Same tags || Oh 👀 I only listened to the first few seconds lol. Gahh see now I want to continue on more ||

[sleek jungle]

SotF ch5 ||Usha will like this one, I think. Lots of magic details ||

[sleek jungle]

Okay, I imagine lots of people will post some reaction to these two chapters

[marble sinew]

Can't react, too busy reading

[sleek jungle]

SotF post ch6 theory break ||I can see it going two ways. One — Ka is the Concurance, as Caeror suspects. Two — they aren't. My intuition so far suggests that even if they are connected to it, they're only an agent or something to that effect. I don't think it can be the scarred teleporty man from the Anguis — they didn't feel like a thousand-year-old person. On Res, I imagine they will be one of the princepts, perhaps someone princepts cede to. Hmmm ||

[sleek jungle]

sotf ch 7 ||Artus was right, there is more to that idle mention of druids in ch2 of wotm||

||Ruarch = Ka =agent of concurrance? Scarred teleporty man? hmmmmmmmmmmm||

[astral atlas]

I won't have sotf till like thursday, and might not have time to read it till friday

Quitting my job brb

[wraith lynx]

Robin gave us the excuse note crispy just use that 😌✨️

[small bloom]

Hoping it was delivered while I was at school

Yessss it was

[sleek jungle]

sotf ch 10 ||Lani 😭 ||

[marble sinew]

SotF XVI ||Cyborg Vis, let's go!||

[ivory cypress]

okay now i have bought strength of the few and snake eater and... still have nameless land staring at me........

[rugged tartan]

Okay I know it isn't... but I have to ask... is Snake Eater in any way related to Metal Gear?

[ivory cypress]

ahaha

it is not

[rugged tartan]

😔

[rugged tartan]

Huh. Neat, I'll add it to the list

[ivory cypress]

👀

[royal carbon]

How are there so many T Kingfisher books

[long sorrel]

Yes

[proper silo]

you look away for a moment and she's already releasing another

how are people meant to catch up with her output

[long sorrel]

I started it earlier but i got distracted by the lists

[proper silo]

Thousand Autumns 39 ||"We’re not in love with each other, and I’m not a homosexual either." Hate to break it to you Shen Qiao, but you're a main lead in a danmei novel, so you're about to have rather astounding moment of self-discovery in the not-too-distant future ||

[marble sinew]

I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Haunted territories and ghostly apparitions sound like a likely cover story for the development of a weapon to surpass Metal Gear.

[long sorrel]

I think you miiiight like the Sworn Soldier series

[long sorrel]

They're all short! Snake Eater is 180 pages on my epub

You can read 2 a day for 3 months or so and you'd be good

[rugged tartan]

With a cover like this, I would buy it in a heartbeat

(Actually, should I tag that?)

[long sorrel]

I have tagged it in the past for kind of... gore? animal gore?

[rugged tartan]

Notably, its mushrooms, not any actual musculature or anything, but uh... yeah its very evocative

[long sorrel]

The spanish cover is also great though not as great

[rugged tartan]

Yeah that's really good

[long sorrel]

I like this one the best, for all 3 books

[rugged tartan]

I gotta get around to reading my fancy copy of Annihilation, that I... seem to have lost, or misplaced, or gotten rid of in the move...

[long sorrel]

What Feasts at Night, catalan cover is also gorgeous

[wraith lynx]

At the book store, gonna get raven scholar if I can find it but I have rokm for one more

Katabasis or the devils

[long sorrel]

options?

hmm

[analog geode]

Both

[wraith lynx]

Not enough money beans 🤣

[long sorrel]

I'd say The Devils

back to me gushing about Kingfisher covers, spanish Nettle & Bone

[buoyant whale]

👀

[long sorrel]

Oh, ugh, ugh

This cover sorta ellicits in me something more similar than the book actually does compared to the one I had seen

Mia! When are you finishing What Stalks the Deep? 👀

[buoyant whale]

ii dont knowwwww

i forgot how to read

[tight kindle]

I'm at my local bookstore and AHHHHHH

I found my dad's Christmas present (the Princess Bride copy)

@ripe tide I feel like you would appreciate this SotR special edition?

[marble sinew]

Mia confirmed for Discord TTS user

[tight kindle]

But I now have the strength of the few

And also I pre-ordered Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die.

[long sorrel]

Oh it is about time we all go "OH YES that!"

But it's still so far away

ngl rn I'd rather read Sir Cameron than SotF

[wraith lynx]

Update: no raven scholar, no in the shadow of lightning

[long sorrel]

need other recs or have other options?

A Master of Djinn

[ivory cypress]

okay actually i have a take on The Raven Scholar and why i'm seeing it glazed everywhereeee, general, not really spoilers, but putting it behind tags just in case ||first things first, i think this is a great book. i don't think it's my favourite of all time and it didn't blow my mind. but i think the reason it's blowing people's minds is that it's the tiktok crowd who aren't used to Actual Quality ||

||it feels like baby's first time being handed a real book||

[long sorrel]

I got my current, very common "we have reached ch 5 must read something else" state of this years reads 😩

I hope I get back to it ASAP cause it sounds interesting

[ivory cypress]

||if i was lining it up to MY faves of all time, it gets downgraded to good or fine. but i like it! i think it's a very strong contender this year. but i didn't feel the "oh my god this is amazing this is the best thing i've ever seen in fantasy" thing that i saw being said about it, and by nature of the statement, i have a feeling... just a feeling... on the previous reading experience of this crowd||

[wraith lynx]

UPDATE NEVERMIND

[long sorrel]

I haven't heard much of it so I'm going based on "this sounds interesting" and "characters sound interesting so far"

[wraith lynx]

Pookie made me ask the worker for the book, it was scary but he went to go look for raven scholar!

[ivory cypress]

oh interesting!

hell yeah cosmic

[long sorrel]

I read a lot of books that go from mediocre to really good as long as I'm entertained and in the mood for them

[ivory cypress]

good jorb

i always ask staff if i can't find it

because even if it's not in the store, they offer to order it for me!

[long sorrel]

Raven Scholar prologue? ||I was also kinda when the TWIN actually went and exiled the sister, idk if she's dead or not but I take it he'll be in the competition||

||Like I wasn't expecting that just from the prologue, most books don't surprise me so early||

[tight kindle]

The dust jacket IS reversible!!!

[long sorrel]

||And I expect this is purposely done not just shock value||

[alpine drum]

Excuse me, she asked for no pickles Raven Scholar

[wraith lynx]

ATRUS I GOT IT I GOT IT HAHAAHAHAHAHAH WOOOOO

SOTF HERE I COME!

And we got matching bookmarks

[ripe tide]

Oooo pretty.

[cunning estuary]

Oh my god

SotF Ch 10 ||Was Lani a husk controlled by Ka the whole time ||

I really should have realized this after learning about ||the iunctii,|| im so dumb

SotF ch 10 ||but wait, it does raise many questions though... why would she help train Vis to clear the labyrinth and then try to kill him? Why would she say "complete the journey" like the husks at the labyrinth||

||So actually upon reflection she must be a iunctii but controlled by whatever mysterious person made the labyrinth iunctii, NOT controlled by Ka||

[cunning estuary]

Wait this is stunning!!!

I wish my Spanish was good enough to justify buying a Spanish book...

[quaint burrow]

I actually learnt English from ASOIAF, (I started actually understanding mid AFFC, but it helped that I already watched the series)

[junior dew]

SoTF V || I also like this. So interesting. Has me wondering what the Luceum differences will be and what the effect of Vis still existing on all 3 worlds will be.

Lots of interesting stuff that could be done with all of this ||

SoTF in 5 chapters in is already far better than WoTM and far more interesting than WoTM ever got imo

Infinitely better already

[long sorrel]

tbh if i buy stuff like this I don't even read it, since I read the original anyway

[junior dew]

Apologies to anyone who ends up reading my spoiler tags. My spelling of names is going to improve because I’m grabbing the Kindle book to follow alongside the audiobook.

Disappointing, I know

[long sorrel]

okay, back to Snake Eater!

[junior dew]

SoTF VI spellings || I’m sorry. Iunctii? Djedef? Caeror?

You mean it’s not Yuncti, Jedeth, and rapper C-Roar? ||

[long sorrel]

hmmm, interesting mc

not that i expected otherwise from Kingfisher

... she might give me anxiety though

[junior dew]

Wotm general spelling
|| Excuse me but nobody told me it was cede and ceding, and not seed and seeding.

Also, SOLIVAGUS? I thought it was Son of Argus ||

[junior dew]

Infinitely

[long sorrel]

Snake Eater 2 ||Selena believed, with every fiber of her being, that a person’s worth was not defined by how hard they worked or how productive they managed to be. She also believed just as strongly that this did not apply to her. girl 😭 ||

[long sorrel]

Okay she is, and the book, and everything

[ivory cypress]

haaaa I see what you mean

[long sorrel]

It is argh

My epub ain't telling me chapters

[ivory cypress]

still within one chapter in and ||I know I need Walter dead. I want him eviscerated||

[long sorrel]

Yes

Yes

This is why i wanted to know my chapter i might be still in 2 or maybe 3 ||but there's clearly some horrible abuse and it's so well written 🤮. I need murder||

[ivory cypress]

snake-eater 1 ||ohhhh she practices scripts like me ||

||i don't think i do it as often as she does or for the same reasons, but still||

[long sorrel]

Snake Eater 3 ||Thank god for Grandma Billy, I love her||

[long sorrel]

Yeah I don't do this but I understand it ||and her constant need to check if anyone's thinking she's weird and the overthinking, yeah, this book's going to give me anxiety, it's already inducing some form of rage||

[ivory cypress]

||for me it's mostly like... i have a sense that there is a Perfect Way of saying a thing, of constructing it and saying it, or not Perfect, but a Lovely way it can be and there might be many Lovely ways, but it's like... repeating until i can feel it click into place||

[long sorrel]

Im feeling this stronger the more I read. Like 😡

[ivory cypress]

mmmmmmmmhm

[long sorrel]

I'm trying to think and I don't think I had read realistically this type of character from Kingfisher before?

[ivory cypress]

snake-eater 1 ||like, the reaction to the dog being named Copper is like, okay you're an asshole, sure, there are boyfriends like that. but then it was just the thing with not wanting to turn on location and i didn't need more than that, i was like aye aye i know where we are now, i will load my shotgun||

[long sorrel]

I think, The Seventh Bride ||Does a pretty abusive man but he does feel way more detached from reality.||
A Sorcerer Comes to Call ||does do pretty well written parent abuse though||

[sharp steeple]

I finally started Exordia today. And man, I missed Seth's writing style.

[long sorrel]

Snake eater 4? 5? ||huh??? Why would the aunt buy a bunch of dog food in advance that's casually sitting there since??? 👀 ||

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/sickos-sicko-haha-yes-creeper-gif-25057805

[quaint tendon]

Brando continues to tease with these wheel of time leatherbounds

[long sorrel]

Snake Eater 6 ||Remind me, we’ll plant you some corn for smut.” “Smut,” said Selena blankly. Err . . . is this some kind of vegetable pornography? ||

[wooden dust]

@wraith lynx The Strength of the Few is out today, im still finishing the last book of the Licanius trilogy but im excited to read it once im done

[long sorrel]

||The creepiness is starting 👀 ||

[wraith lynx]

Got my SoTF today and as soon as pookie handed it to me I reversed the cover

[marble sinew]

So far I'm really enjoying SotF, but wow, Islington needs to get a better copy-editor. There are dropped capital letters all over the place

(At least in the Google Books ebook)

[long sorrel]

Snake Eater 7 ||Selena knew that she was crazy. Walter had made that abundantly clear. He was a jerk, but that didn’t make him wrong. raging here||

[snow vessel]

I'm currently mourning the fact that it's impossible for me to get a matching sotf for my wotm 😭

If I get the paperback, it'll be the other style cover. If I get the hardcover, it'll be a hardcover/paperback pair

Swordcrossed 6 ||ooh, luca's doing some accidental spying 👀 and someone's working against Jay house||

[wraith lynx]

Anyway i am about to bite into sotf like a god damn sandwich

[long sorrel]

Hmmm, i want a soft crappy white bread sandwich

[ivory cypress]

||killing him killing him biting him killing him||

[snow vessel]

Swordcrossed 7 ||WOAHH O-K ||

[wraith lynx]

SoTF 1 ||Caeror is so damn fun, I cant wait to spend the rest of the book with him honeslty||

||and its such a fun contrast to meeting Ulciscor from the first book||

[long sorrel]

What's this what's this?

Snake Eater 10 ||creeeepyy. "Are you gonna do magic?" "first I'll try a shotgun". That's Grandma all right||

||If something happens to Grandma Im rioting||

[snow vessel]

SC 7 ||Mattie don't you dare hurt sophia||

[ivory cypress]

lmao my ping went off 😅

[snow vessel]

Oops did that send twice

[ivory cypress]

only once on my end!

[snow vessel]

Ok good good

Had a moment of lag

[snow vessel]

SC 7 ||this was... one of the training sessions, where matti made luca be quiet||

[long sorrel]

Aaaah, i loved that scene ||As I said the kink is woven in very nicely||

Snake Eater 11 ||We are blessing shotguns now, okay||

[long sorrel]

... 11 ||Aunt was having sex with a roadrunner... ofc... right, yes. Okay.||

[ivory cypress]

snake-eater 11 ||gotta appreciate that this MC is experiencing a lot less denial than in the other horror books. much more congenial to read||

[long sorrel]

She's fantastic

I love her