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skygiantsA couple of ongoing series books to log today -
After reading a few awesome Cadfael fics in the Yuletide archive, I am finally back on the (veeery slow) Big Cadfael Reread I started last spring! The Leper of St. Giles is not a hugely memorable Cadfael mystery, which means that a.) I remembered basically nothing about it when I read it and therefore b.) I have no idea whether I figured out who the murderer was on page five because of my Natural Detectin' Skill (which would be nice to think!) or because I remembered from reading it before. I miss Hugh and I have almost no interest in the leading romantic pairing, but I do adore Brother Mark and Brother Oswin. Possibly because I am basically Brother Oswin. (Clumsy and bumbling, check; blithely optimistic, check; cheerfully oblivious, check!) I can't remember if he turns up in more books but I hope he does!
The other series I have been stalled on for a few months and just got back into continuing is Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles. These are set in a postapocalyptic future where the rule is city-eat-city; they start out with a relatively light coming-of-age-adventure tone for a surprisingly dark universe, and get interestingly darker as they go on. I had Infernal Devices, the third book book, sitting around in my room for months despite the amazing title, but now I am super-excited to read the fourth - in large part because, after being frustrated by my favorite character for three quarters of the book, she pulled it out at the very end and became even more of an AWESOME STONE-COLD BADASS. Everything else I want to say is spoilery!
SHE DUMPED TOM. THAT IS AWESOME. I am not all that interested in Tom, but more importantly I was super-frustrated with Tom being her entire motivation for this whole book (and the last one) and now maybe she will get NEW and EXCITING motivations and get to put her stone-cold badassery to good use!
I am half-ashamed to admit that I now actually kind of 'ship Hester/Zombie Robot Grike, but . . . dude, it's probably healthier than Hester/Tom. And they can be stone-cold badasses together!
Meanwhile, I have always had problems with the whole Anna Fang plot - WHY is everyone obsessed with Tom? It makes no sense to me! - but I have to admit that Multiple Personalities Zombie Robot Ex-General Surrogate Mother Anna Fang is sort of hysterical as a concept. And I did quite like Wren by the end, though I spent most of the first half of the book wanting to throw things at her. And in general, I love that the series is kind of growing into the darkness of the premise; I loved Oenone, and the sequence where she zombie-robitinates her brother was awesomely creepy. And in conclusion the last one just got bumped way high up on my reading list!
After reading a few awesome Cadfael fics in the Yuletide archive, I am finally back on the (veeery slow) Big Cadfael Reread I started last spring! The Leper of St. Giles is not a hugely memorable Cadfael mystery, which means that a.) I remembered basically nothing about it when I read it and therefore b.) I have no idea whether I figured out who the murderer was on page five because of my Natural Detectin' Skill (which would be nice to think!) or because I remembered from reading it before. I miss Hugh and I have almost no interest in the leading romantic pairing, but I do adore Brother Mark and Brother Oswin. Possibly because I am basically Brother Oswin. (Clumsy and bumbling, check; blithely optimistic, check; cheerfully oblivious, check!) I can't remember if he turns up in more books but I hope he does!
The other series I have been stalled on for a few months and just got back into continuing is Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles. These are set in a postapocalyptic future where the rule is city-eat-city; they start out with a relatively light coming-of-age-adventure tone for a surprisingly dark universe, and get interestingly darker as they go on. I had Infernal Devices, the third book book, sitting around in my room for months despite the amazing title, but now I am super-excited to read the fourth - in large part because, after being frustrated by my favorite character for three quarters of the book, she pulled it out at the very end and became even more of an AWESOME STONE-COLD BADASS. Everything else I want to say is spoilery!
SHE DUMPED TOM. THAT IS AWESOME. I am not all that interested in Tom, but more importantly I was super-frustrated with Tom being her entire motivation for this whole book (and the last one) and now maybe she will get NEW and EXCITING motivations and get to put her stone-cold badassery to good use!
I am half-ashamed to admit that I now actually kind of 'ship Hester/Zombie Robot Grike, but . . . dude, it's probably healthier than Hester/Tom. And they can be stone-cold badasses together!
Meanwhile, I have always had problems with the whole Anna Fang plot - WHY is everyone obsessed with Tom? It makes no sense to me! - but I have to admit that Multiple Personalities Zombie Robot Ex-General Surrogate Mother Anna Fang is sort of hysterical as a concept. And I did quite like Wren by the end, though I spent most of the first half of the book wanting to throw things at her. And in general, I love that the series is kind of growing into the darkness of the premise; I loved Oenone, and the sequence where she zombie-robitinates her brother was awesomely creepy. And in conclusion the last one just got bumped way high up on my reading list!
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Date: 2009-02-04 07:02 pm (UTC)