Yeah, I wasn't sure when I started it that I might have too high expectations since I liked The Expanse so much, and this is a very different, hm, perspective I guess but I really liked it and am looking forward to more. I think there's supposed to be a related novella or something coming out not too long from now but I don't remember where I saw that so it could be wrong.

Oh, I found it, it's already out! As an audiobook, even, although $7 seems like so much more money than $3 for some reason. Livesuit is the title.

Oh! Cool, thank you - it seems to be included in the free stuff w/ my Audible subscriptions right now, which is awesome. I finished Mercy today.

Nice! I want to get it for free. $7 is too low to spend a credit on but too high for my knee-jerk "it's only a dollar" (or whatever it actually is). Somebody planned that carefully to disturb my psychic wellbeing.

If anyone is looking for some lovely, fluffy reading, might I suggest the delightful Miss Percy's Guide series by Quenby Olson? The protagonist is a 40-something Regency-era lady who ends up inheriting a dragon egg and develops a gentle romance with the local vicar, and the humor is lovely and cutting and did I mention dragons? My html code isn't working, so here's a link: [link]

Ooh, thanks! I have been eyeing that series and I think kind of already decided I'd probably read it but it's always better to have a personal rec I can trust.

Like I really need to add to my tbr mountain, but somehow I kinda do

I was wrong about Livesuit being free for me, btw - I had been listening to a free snippet, then I went and downloaded something else novella-length that was free, and I conflated the two. (The free thing is called Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the Children of Time + at least one more in that world author. It's entertaining. But not from the "Children of ..." world. Anyway... free!)

Also, I have Leviathan, and I keep starting and stopping it, so maybe I will commit! I hear from everyone how great the Expanse series is.

I devoured the Expanse series.

I'm ready for Miss Percy's Guide. Just put it on my Kindle.

Oh, sorry you didn't get it for free after all, JenP but that does make me feel better. I did decide to spend the $7, btw.

I am semi hooked on Tchaikovsky - I loved Children of Time (there are three) and The Tyrant Philosophers (third one coming out December) but I'm kind of stalled in Shadows of the Apt. I like it but I put down book 8 part way through a while back and haven't picked it up again so clearly I'm not that into it. And it looks like I get Walking to Aldebaran free, also, so I can give that a try. Eta - I also really liked Service Model. Have been considering Alien Clay but haven't committed yet

Ooh, let me know what you think of it, -t. I have not read/listened to Children of Memory yet! That's exciting. I really liked the first two. I was also eyeing Alien Clay, but I think I'll do Children of Memory first. I... fell asleep in the middle of Aldebaran. I liked it enough to go back. Even though I know the ending now, ha!

OK, I am committing to listening to Leviathan Wakes now... about to hit play.

Woohoo, go Expanse!

Just finished Livesuit and it’s good, very thinky. I’m not sure how it fits with Mercy of the Gods - it’s clearly the same universe but either I’m missing connections or they are yet to be revealed. Just taken on its own it’s a good story, though.