What I'm reading...
May. 4th, 2019 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readerjaneHaving thoroughly enjoyed Martha Wells' Murderbot series, I'm now trying her Raksura series, which starts with The Cloud Roads.
TCR has an isolated, alienated protagonist in common with Murderbot. I wonder if that's a theme for Wells? The abilities of species and of classes within the species seems a little hand-wavey, but I do like the characters very much, and that's more important to me, so all to the good.
I was charmed by the way, even though clutch-mates are given coordinated names, their relationships can still be mistaken. One might think the character named Branch was a sibling of Root, but it turns out Branch's sibling is actually River. It makes sense - in our world, one can't assume that one Smith is related to another.
Had a "Yikes, I think I know why the baddies have been able to track our hero" moment a few chapters ago. Now it's sounding more like I was wrong, but the actual reason might be even more horrifying. Time will tell...
TCR has an isolated, alienated protagonist in common with Murderbot. I wonder if that's a theme for Wells? The abilities of species and of classes within the species seems a little hand-wavey, but I do like the characters very much, and that's more important to me, so all to the good.
I was charmed by the way, even though clutch-mates are given coordinated names, their relationships can still be mistaken. One might think the character named Branch was a sibling of Root, but it turns out Branch's sibling is actually River. It makes sense - in our world, one can't assume that one Smith is related to another.
Had a "Yikes, I think I know why the baddies have been able to track our hero" moment a few chapters ago. Now it's sounding more like I was wrong, but the actual reason might be even more horrifying. Time will tell...
