I can pick up Ninth House at the library* tomorrow, but while I was waiting, I started reading A Marvellous Light, by Freya Marske. I'm really enjoying it. Plus I know there's a second book already out and a third on the way. I like knowing I have more to look forward to.
*(My therapist's office moved to a house 2 doors down from the library; both of them are diagonally across the street from my dentist; all of them are less than a mile from my house. You'd never think I live in an urban neighborhood 6 miles from downtown Cincinnati, for how much my neighborhood feels like Queer Mayberry.)
Ooh yes the second one in that series is on my holds shelf Teppy! Still several weeks though.
Dang, Ninth House just goes hard right from the start, doesn't it? I can definitely say I was not expecting
haruspicy (divination through entrails)
(as soon as I read the word
"Haruspex," I thought "wait, is that someone who reads the future through entrails?" and WOW, was I ever right),
much less
divination through the guts of someone *still alive*,
in the first chapter. I maybe shouldn't have read that right before bed.
That's a hell of a way to get me hooked for the rest of the book, though.
That's a hell of a way to get me hooked for the rest of the book, though.
Her pacing is fantastic. It's not always propulsive, but there's constant intrigue that pulls you forward. But she knows how to step on the pedal as she swerves into the big action scenes.
I'm halfway though Ninth House and just put the sequel on hold at the library. I really dig it.
I just started listening to Ninth House. I had forgotten a lot of detail. And in reading in in print form I don't think I picked up so well on the
POV shifts. The two narrators
makes that a lot more apparent
The audiobook has
two narrators?
Clever! I did pick up on the
POV shifts,
but not right away. I had to go back and reread some of the chapters once I realized that.
I started out disliking Darlington, and now I kind of love him. I'm far enough into the book that I know it *wasn't*
a portal that got him,
but I'm not finished with the book, so I still don't know what it actually *was*.
I really didn't see the whole
Alex can share her body with ghosts
thing coming. Although I was 100% UNsurprised
that she killed those dudes, with or without ghost!Hellie helping.
They totally deserved it.
Oh my god, that was SO GOOD. I think I'm going to have to skip waiting for Hell Bent at the library and just buy the Kindle version today.
I need my local thrift store to be less awesome. (Or to buy another bookcase.) Recent scores include the nearly complete Lymond Chronicles, a signed first edition of The River Cafe Cook Book, and a facsimile copy of the 1931 first edition of The Joy of Cooking. There's a gift inscription on the front leaf, which made me want to give it a home immediately. Connie's first question would have been "Does it have the squirrel recipes?"
"Does it have the squirrel recipes?"
Now I'm curious. Does it?
