Haven't read the third one yet, but liked the first two a lot.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
meara - Sep 28, 2019 12:58:38 pm PDT #25482 of 28195
Pix - Sep 28, 2019 5:26:52 pm PDT #25483 of 28195
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
The third Wayfarer is decent, but nowhere are good as the first two IMO. Thanks for the book rec of Future or Another Timeline — compelling read! My BIG rec for all of you, though, is The Ten Thousand Doors of January. It is beautifully written and has such cool characters and interwoven storylines. It's one of the best books I've read in the past couple of years.
Pix - Sep 28, 2019 5:28:19 pm PDT #25484 of 28195
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh, and if you liked Into the Drowning Deep, she just released a...well it isn't a sequel, but a plot-related creepy novella called Spindrift House or some such. Will double check the title. Dark, but well written as always.
Consuela - Sep 28, 2019 8:41:13 pm PDT #25485 of 28195
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just today finished Ann Leckie's Raven Tower. I enjoyed it; it's quite different from her other stuff, while still having some stylistic & thematic similarities. Pretty neat.
I also just finished There There by Tommy Orange for book club. My book club was divided on it, although the general sense was that it felt like a first novel and while the writing and characterizations were good, it was just too depressing overall. Still, living where I do, it was fun to see the characters pingpong through the city.
-t - Sep 29, 2019 6:35:52 am PDT #25486 of 28195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I loved Raven Tower so much.
Jessica - Sep 30, 2019 5:45:57 am PDT #25487 of 28195
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Raven Tower was fantastic.
The third Wayfarer book was my least favorite of the trilogy, but I still liked it a lot.
Gris - Sep 30, 2019 7:51:26 am PDT #25488 of 28195
Hey. New board.
Yeah, the "the third one was the worst but I still liked it" consensus is sad for me, because the second one was one of the most powerful emotional experiences I've had in years.
Jessica - Sep 30, 2019 8:04:01 am PDT #25489 of 28195
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
SQUEEEE!!!!! NEW NK JEMISIN PREORDER!!!
I've been waiting for this book since she posted the first drabble to her Patreon. I want it NOW.
sj - Sep 30, 2019 8:39:55 am PDT #25490 of 28195
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ooh! I'm currently reading Jemisin's How Long To Black Future Month, which is excellent.
DebetEsse - Sep 30, 2019 5:50:38 pm PDT #25491 of 28195
Woe to the fucking wicked.
So, I've been reading some Octavia Butler, and really struggling with it. I guess it's a maternal hormones thing, but the violence in the Patternist series got to me to a point that I just couldn't (and this as someone who has read all of ASoIaF). I'm keeping on keeping on with the Lilith books, but I can see where I might need to stop.
Seems like I may need to radically change my reading habits for a while.