I recently read an e-book of "The Rook" - set in London, starts off with a woman coming to in the middle of a park, at night, surrounded by dead bodies. She's soaking wet and seems to have been beaten up, but has no memory at all. Finds an envelope in her pocket explaining that she (the previous non-amnesiac her) had been warned that she'd lose her memory and so has prepared. The story revolves around a secret department in the British government that recruits young children with special abilities, trains them and uses them to protect the country from the supernatural. It took a while for me to get into it, but I enjoyed it once it got moving.
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
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Toddson - Jun 20, 2017 11:28:43 am PDT #24627 of 28222
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
EpicTangent - Jun 20, 2017 2:34:05 pm PDT #24628 of 28222
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
There is a sequel called Stiletto. I haven't read it yet, but I believe that Kat and/or Pix have. Told from the POV of the villains IIRC. (Not relevant, but, I met the author, completely adorkable.)
sumi - Jun 22, 2017 9:04:10 am PDT #24629 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Sounds interesting.
I have started reading The Huntsmen
on the Storm and Ash website. It's a supernatural story set in Victorian England involving a family called the Graysons, who, alas, are not 19th century British acrobats but so far I am enjoying it. (There are six parts out now.)
Sorry -it's the Greysons not the Graysons.
Pix - Jun 23, 2017 8:39:23 am PDT #24630 of 28222
The status is NOT quo.
People, The Strenge Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss is awesome, and you should all go read it. Jilli, I think it's especially up your alley. [link]
-t - Jun 25, 2017 9:59:31 am PDT #24631 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I definitely will need to read that.
Y'all, The Three-Body Problem series is so good! I don't even want to say anything about it other than that. Kinda reminds me of Olaf Stapledon.
Jessica - Jun 25, 2017 10:00:44 am PDT #24632 of 28222
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have the third one in my TBR pile!
-t - Jun 25, 2017 10:34:18 am PDT #24633 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Just finished it. Terrific!.
Atropa - Jun 25, 2017 1:31:06 pm PDT #24634 of 28222
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oooh, I will add The Alchemist's Daughter to my Eventually To Be Read list!
Atropa - Jun 25, 2017 1:35:25 pm PDT #24635 of 28222
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's not often that fiction makes me feel like I need a hot shower to scrub away the grime from reading it, but a friend of mine gave me a stack of 90s - 2000s small press horror and alterative fiction magazines for the next run of Eldergoth Surprise Boxes, and eeeugh. Half of them were full of bad "edgy" horror porn; the worst sort of examples of splatterpunk and writing to be shocking.
I know he bought them as research into markets that were buying short horror fiction, but they're just ... gross
hippocampus - Jun 26, 2017 3:53:49 am PDT #24636 of 28222
not your mom's socks.
People, The Strenge Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss is awesome, and you should all go read it. Jilli, I think it's especially up your alley.
I blurbed The Alchemist's Daughter! It's so so good you guys. Seconding everything Pix said
Also (coming soon - very much of interest here) VIvian Shaw's Strange Practice - Dr. Greta vanHelsing, physician to monsters [link]
(also news of big old ebook sale for yours truly up in News)