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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 8757919" data-attributes="member: 99786">I started reading a series by Charlaine Harris, same author as the Sookie Stackhouse books (adapated as the True Blood TV show).&nbsp; Post-apocalyptic from the late 1930's I think? WW2 never happened afaik; and FDR was assassinated leading to dissolution of the United States as we know it today. US has split into 4-5 new nations, with west coast (Cali/Oregon/Wash/Idaho) becoming Holy Russian Empire (Tsar fled Russia to San Diego), the eastern seaboard re-aligning with Britain; a nation called Texoma which I guess is Texas and Okhlahoma; Dixie being the south; Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin joined Canada; Hawaii and Alaska stay in their respective Indigenous hands; and &quot;New America&quot; is everything else. Somehow, Rasputin discovered how to do actual magic, so there are these Russian wizards called grigoris running around.It features a character called Gunnie Rose who is a bodygaurd, ie a &quot;gunnie&quot;. Someone who is good with guns. She kills a TON of people through the course of the first novel. She partners (at least in the first 2 books) (and spoilers [spoiler] partners in multiple senses of the word [/spoiler]) with one of the grigoris, so there's guns AND magic.It's pure pap; and I'm here for it. (I've been stuck on the 4th Terra Ignota book for over a month, slowly but surely grinding through it. Recently got to almost the mid-way point). Takes me about 2 days to read the entire novel - refreshing. The plots barely hang together, the relationships are often &quot;wha? why do they like/hate/fear/love that person?&quot;, the internal world-building logic doesn't exactly make sense - there's gasoline everywhere but there are also tons of bandits so how does the gasoline get transported to the gas stations? and yet I still find them so far quite enjoyable - especially if I don't squint too hard at them.Definitely not for everyone, but I expect to see a season one of this series on a streaming service in next few years.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.goodreads.com/series/233846-gunnie-rose[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 8757919, member: 99786"] I started reading a series by Charlaine Harris, same author as the Sookie Stackhouse books (adapated as the True Blood TV show). Post-apocalyptic from the late 1930's I think? WW2 never happened afaik; and FDR was assassinated leading to dissolution of the United States as we know it today. US has split into 4-5 new nations, with west coast (Cali/Oregon/Wash/Idaho) becoming Holy Russian Empire (Tsar fled Russia to San Diego), the eastern seaboard re-aligning with Britain; a nation called Texoma which I guess is Texas and Okhlahoma; Dixie being the south; Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin joined Canada; Hawaii and Alaska stay in their respective Indigenous hands; and "New America" is everything else. Somehow, Rasputin discovered how to do actual magic, so there are these Russian wizards called [I]grigoris[/I] running around. It features a character called Gunnie Rose who is a bodygaurd, ie a "gunnie". Someone who is good with guns. She kills a TON of people through the course of the first novel. She partners (at least in the first 2 books) (and spoilers [spoiler] partners in multiple senses of the word [/spoiler] ) with one of the grigoris, so there's guns AND magic. It's pure pap; and I'm here for it. (I've been stuck on the 4th Terra Ignota book for over a month, slowly but surely grinding through it. Recently got to almost the mid-way point). Takes me about 2 days to read the entire novel - refreshing. The plots barely hang together, the relationships are often "wha? why do they like/hate/fear/love that person?", the internal world-building logic doesn't exactly make sense - there's gasoline everywhere but there are also tons of bandits so how does the gasoline get transported to the gas stations? and yet I still find them so far quite enjoyable - especially if I don't squint too hard at them. Definitely not for everyone, but I expect to see a season one of this series on a streaming service in next few years. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.goodreads.com/series/233846-gunnie-rose[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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