I'm not sure if it's an actual sequel, but it's another horror novel from T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places.

Same tone but not connected. I’ve read them both.

Copperbadge is releasing a new story in the Shivadhverse. If the 'verse is new to you, I highly recommend it. Fun stuff. [link]

Latest story is: [link]

Would discussion of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story go here? Audiobook, right?

I tried listening in the car on the the way to work this morning but it was too hard to hear the dialog over the background noise. I'll have to try later with headphones. But I'm excited!

I am most of the way through Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrot, which was written in the late 1920s, and it's SO GOOD y'all. Highly recommended.

Listened to a lot of audiobooks while driving hither and yon, and now I have opinions. I did not quite like Slayers as much as I wanted to - it's not wrong and bad, but I just couldn't get on board with Anya and Anyanka being separate entities, and Tara having what amounted to two personalities which is really too bad because the basic premise of an alternate universe where we can follow characters who died on Buffy is a good one! Definitely nice to listen to the actors again.

I did like Third Eye, a Felicia Day thing playing around with the Chosen One idea. There's something particularly enjoyable about Neil Gaiman reading Felicia Day's words in the first person.

And I was utterly charmed by Starter Villain. I haven't read much Scalzi - for quite a while I would come across one of his essays or the like on the interwebs and think I should read him but then perusing the titles and synopses that were available I somehow never did. There was an Audible series that I gave a chance to and enjoyed well enough, but not enough to make me start following him seriously. Audible has been pushing me to listen to Starter Villain, though, and there's a cat on the cover, so I was willing and this one I like very much.

And I gave the full-cast version of All Systems Red a listen. I don't think I like it as much as the straight audiobook? It's shorter, for one thing, which is weird. I had a feeling that the dramatization aspect would take away from the sense of being so much in Murderbot's head, but I don't think it was actually a problem. Kinda want to listen to the book while it's fresh in my head and figure out how I feel about both of them

-t, I want to read Starter Villain (the cat alone would tempt me). If you haven't, I can recommend The Kaiju Preservation Society.

Thanks, I’ll look for that!

I'm going to Audible Starter Villain. Cool.

Kaiju Preservation Society

Wil Wheaton's narration in this one made me really dislike the main character, FWIW, but it's a fun listen if you can get past how obnoxiously bro-y he is.