Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
From a conversation with Ken re: Ilona Andrews' "Sweep of the Blade", from The Innkeeper Chronicles:
[S]ometimes you just want to live in a world where you can win the respect and affection of your potential vampiric MIL with trade negotiations, a properly bloody melee and an adorable half-vampire five-year-old.
Bev, I saw that but haven’t read it. It’s YA—might be interested.
Cat Sebastian just released two short stories as ebooks (The Cabots). I like her post WWII settings. Solid romance.
The Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking is next on my reading list.
oh, that's a fun one! with some interludes of scary, but generally fun
I’m reading The Hollow Place by T Kingfisher, which is very different from other books I’ve read by her, but so far I like it.
I read The Twisted Ones (which I think is connected to The Hollow Place) and it scared me enough that I wouldn't read it at night. So I'm giving the other a pass. But enjoy!
So far I haven't found it particularly scary.
Yeah, The Hollow Place was very different. I know I liked it, I think the world-building (if that's the right word, core concepts maybe?) was interesting. I don't have any familiarity with the works she's riffing on for Hollow Place and Twisted Ones but I did what she does with them.
I finally read the first Sholomance book while traveling this week! I enjoyed it, although it's one book that might be better in hard copy than on Kindle, because my Paperwhite doesn't show the illustrations very well. I should probably google up a schematic of the school.
I do have a question, though: I must have missed the bit where Novik explains why children are so at risk: are the maleficaria just more attracted to kids, or are they just less able to defend themselves? And how is the mundane world not aware of any of this?
There are illustrations? Hm. Kinda want to reread that to be able to discuss it intelligently...and the next book comes out next week so that's a better idea than I first supposed!
Unrelatedly, I am frustrated that I can’t search audiobooks for a character name to remind myself how we originally met this particular character 7 books ago. My theory that binge-listening to the Flavia Albia series would let me keep details from earlier books in mind by the time I got to the most recent is not playing out as well as I hoped. Oh well, slightly more retention of knowledge is worthwhile.