Reading Friday
Feb. 19th, 2016 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyphomandraThis is more a couple of weeks' worth.
Just finished:
CS Pacat's Captive Prince series - re-read the first two and then read the new (and final) one, Kings Rising. I am very fond of this series and will try to discuss them properly later. The second is still my favourite; I enjoyed KR, but it didn't blow me away - it hits too many expected notes, in the end, but I liked getting there and look forward to seeing what she does next.
Jane Duncan's My Friend series - I finished My Friends the Miss Boyds (Janet's childhood) and read My Friend Muriel (bits of WWII, Janet meets Twice), My Friend Monica (early days of Janet & Twice's relationship), and My Friend Annie, (back mostly to Janet's school days and then university, and then on to her and Twice going out to the West Indies). These are so impeccably well written and so deftly constructed, all the more so for the way in which they purport to be memoir (I am not going to look online to find out any more of Duncan's life because I don't want to know what did happen even if it's going to be different). In Muriel Janet meets Twice and proposes to him; in Monica they are living together. In Annie, it is revealed that they have not in fact married because Twice has a wife who refuses to divorce him and a son he's only seen once. It is a banger of a revelation and it is equally possible that this was known/planned all along and that it was just thought up when she came to write it. Excellent character studies. It I have another five requested through the library system and will no doubt do more of them.
Mercedes Lackey, Blood Red. Elemental Masters series, does the fairy tale in the prologue. Competent, especially compared to the terrible Tin Soldier one.
Reading now:
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk. I've been meaning to read this for a while and found it at the library. Still too early to say.
Up next:
I also snaffled Kate Elliott's Court of Fives from the returns section, and am looking forward to Hugner Games/Little Women crossover action. I also really do want to get to the latest Bujold and must find a way to get it on my phone.
Just finished:
CS Pacat's Captive Prince series - re-read the first two and then read the new (and final) one, Kings Rising. I am very fond of this series and will try to discuss them properly later. The second is still my favourite; I enjoyed KR, but it didn't blow me away - it hits too many expected notes, in the end, but I liked getting there and look forward to seeing what she does next.
Jane Duncan's My Friend series - I finished My Friends the Miss Boyds (Janet's childhood) and read My Friend Muriel (bits of WWII, Janet meets Twice), My Friend Monica (early days of Janet & Twice's relationship), and My Friend Annie, (back mostly to Janet's school days and then university, and then on to her and Twice going out to the West Indies). These are so impeccably well written and so deftly constructed, all the more so for the way in which they purport to be memoir (I am not going to look online to find out any more of Duncan's life because I don't want to know what did happen even if it's going to be different). In Muriel Janet meets Twice and proposes to him; in Monica they are living together. In Annie, it is revealed that they have not in fact married because Twice has a wife who refuses to divorce him and a son he's only seen once. It is a banger of a revelation and it is equally possible that this was known/planned all along and that it was just thought up when she came to write it. Excellent character studies. It I have another five requested through the library system and will no doubt do more of them.
Mercedes Lackey, Blood Red. Elemental Masters series, does the fairy tale in the prologue. Competent, especially compared to the terrible Tin Soldier one.
Reading now:
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk. I've been meaning to read this for a while and found it at the library. Still too early to say.
Up next:
I also snaffled Kate Elliott's Court of Fives from the returns section, and am looking forward to Hugner Games/Little Women crossover action. I also really do want to get to the latest Bujold and must find a way to get it on my phone.
