I feel like you just described A Song of Ice and Fire!
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Rayne - Jun 29, 2011 3:45:40 pm PDT #15485 of 28293
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Kat - Jun 29, 2011 6:13:26 pm PDT #15486 of 28293
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
march of bleakness with PTSD sprinkles on top.
Just the Collins books. Has anyone read Gregor the Overlander? Also grim, or so I hear.
Consuela - Jun 30, 2011 11:36:00 am PDT #15487 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The woman who wrote Goodnight, Moon left ownership of her copyright to the 9-year-old son of a neighbor.
This... did not turn out that well.
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2011 9:53:50 pm PDT #15488 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What the fuuuuuuuck. Well, Uglies is the first time I've seen the Hippocratic Oath used as a crucial plot device. I am very wary of this plan. And I like Tally much more than I did in the beginning.
I didn't really know what to expect from this series, but this is not what I expected.
Connie Neil - Jul 01, 2011 2:59:52 pm PDT #15489 of 28293
brillig
So I'm looking for another series of books to devour. Honor Harrington, I've heard good things. What's the consensus?
Typo Boy - Jul 01, 2011 3:02:21 pm PDT #15490 of 28293
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Never liked that series. Characters two dimension, prose flat. And she bonds with intelligent telepathic cats! well an additional negative for me. Her greatest character flaw is being too modest and not realizing how awesome she is. Another negative.
Others may disagree and think she really is awesome.
Pix - Jul 01, 2011 3:12:37 pm PDT #15491 of 28293
The status is NOT quo.
Despite the ridiculously excessive technical descriptions, I have a soft spot for that series. Always loved it. It's been years since I read it, though. I do remember thinking the writing got much better after the first couple of books.
Ginger - Jul 01, 2011 3:25:53 pm PDT #15492 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked the first six or seven, but then I had a Mary Sue overdose.
A series I read recently that I really loved was Kristine Smith's five Jani Killian novels. I like sf that drops you right in the middle of a different civilization and lets you scramble to catch up, which these do. It's about the uneasy relationship between humans and an alien species.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2011 3:25:56 pm PDT #15493 of 28293
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I never got past the first one for the reasons Typo mentions. (I started reading it literally days after learning the term Mary Sue, and the telepathic cat was just too much for me to get past.)
I want James Alan Gardner to write more Festina Ramos books. Speaking of kickass military SF female characters.
Consuela - Jul 01, 2011 4:57:55 pm PDT #15494 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I'm looking for another series of books to devour.
Kate Elliott's "Crossroads" series, starting with Spirit Gate.
Sherwood Smith's Inda series.
Tanya Huff's "Valor" series, if you like kickass military women.
I really liked a lot of Elizabeth Moon's "Familias Regnant" novels, although I'm less excited about the most recent series (which is unrelated, I think). Oh, and I hear Moon has revived the Paksennarion series, although I haven't read them.
Martha Wells' The Wizard Hunters series is good, and I hear good things about the new series, starting with Cloud Roads, although I haven't read it yet.