What are you reading in 2025?

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Trying a thing this week

I like this idea.

I have finished the fungus book and have moved on to the audiobook version of Carlo Rovelli’s Reality Is Not What It Seems.

 

[Autumnal]

Rovelli is a pleasure to read.

 

[Retros_x]

I had quite a lot of criticism for this for the excessive amount of anachronism (particularly re: food & clothes, like, there's no way these people have clothing sizes, hell people that rich now don't use sized clothing, come on), and the weird isolation the empire exists in seems hard-to-explain

These anachronisms are also my only criticsm for the book which moved it from 5 to 4.5 stars. I will also never forget the rich people complain about their yachting crews at the ball. But maybe the empire is supposed to be more modern? The author was specialised in historical fiction before this book and that seems weird. She either
a) doesn't give a damn and maybe enjoys writing without minding historical details. Its a fantasy world after all.
b) there is some worldbuilding still to be revealed in the upcoming books that explains more of it.

The isolated empire has a much more higher chance to be explained in the upcoming books, I feel this could be very much connected to some of the lore reveals at the end of the book.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished my final Halloween season read, Kaden love's Toothsucker. Mixed feelings on it. The book throws a metric ton at the reader. The slang used felt forced and got old really quickly. But the core concept of a bunch of tooth-eating cybernetic vampires was solid.

Now I'm re-reading Walter Jon Williams' Voice of the Whirlwind.