Anya ,'Get It Done'
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."
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?
It does!
My sister at one point developed a passion for burgoo (squirrel stew). I think she ended up using a substitute for the squirrel,
And this struck me as something to appeal to the Buffistas.