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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9687046" data-attributes="member: 78087">Finished Court of Fives, the first of Kate Elliott's YA fantasy series set around playing a complicated game which feels rather like training for dungeon-diving (and amused me briefly because there was a game at my old school called Fives played in a court). It was much more engaging than I expected - there's a lot there about what it means to be conquered and mixed-race, about the effects of rewriting history for personal and cultural reasons. The setting is reminiscent of the Byzantine empire with its intrigues and brutal cynicism.Am reading (at a friend's recommendation) a manhua called Kill the Male Lead to Become the Villainess, which is surprisingly charming for its premise - a support character in a computer RPG (wuxia theme) decides to kill the protagonist because he's just going to let her die in order to progress the plot otherwise. A bit like if in FF7 Aeris ganked Cloud so that she doesn't get fridged later.Am also reading Lucky Loser, which is a more objective and less personal biography of Donald Trump than Too Much and Never Enough. It's so far doing a very readable job of covering his family, education, and early career. Let's just say the psychological and behavioural patterns are set early.</blockquote>