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What I'm reading
Jan. 5th, 2019 08:08 amY'know what? I'm just gonna try to post this once a week and call it good.
This week I finished Swordheart, Ursula Vernon's novel set in the same universe as her Clocktaur Wars duology. (It's published under her pseudonym, T. Kingfisher.) Halla's inquisitive distractability is delightful, and the scene where she puts it to use on a man under enchantment had me whooping. Halla reminds me a bit of Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant in her response to magic.
I tried a tie-in novel that I was given for Christmas: Firefly - Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove and Nancy Holder. It was clear that the authors love their source material and have the quirky dialog down pat. But when the story's pace should have picked up, they seemed more interested in showing off the patter than in having the crew respond to situations in character. So I bailed.
This week I finished Swordheart, Ursula Vernon's novel set in the same universe as her Clocktaur Wars duology. (It's published under her pseudonym, T. Kingfisher.) Halla's inquisitive distractability is delightful, and the scene where she puts it to use on a man under enchantment had me whooping. Halla reminds me a bit of Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant in her response to magic.
I tried a tie-in novel that I was given for Christmas: Firefly - Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove and Nancy Holder. It was clear that the authors love their source material and have the quirky dialog down pat. But when the story's pace should have picked up, they seemed more interested in showing off the patter than in having the crew respond to situations in character. So I bailed.
