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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 5399158" data-attributes="member: 1154">Finished up Alice in Wonderland a few days ago.Currently reading Cold Magic, by Kate Elliott. Publisher's Weekly recommended it to fans of His Dark Materials, so I kind of had to give it a try after reading that.Starts off slow, but it's picking up. Has promise.Also has two rather annoying tics.The first is that the main character is named Catherine, and goes by Cat. This leads to lots of short sentences of the form, "Cats always ______" (e.g. Cats always land on their feet), whenever she details one of her virtues.The second is that the setting is victorian-era in an alternate history, and presumably to try and help the reader get his bearings, the book will constantly write something in the pattern of "... [invented name], what the Romans called [familiar name], ..."</blockquote>