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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7800640" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Reading Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee, second book in the Machineries of Empire series. The first was very fresh in worldbuilding which had direct positive impacts on plot, writing was competent, characters where good enough. </p><p></p><p>Second book is from a different character's PoV (well, both have occasional chapters from others, but one main PoV character), and the main character(s) from the first book is an important but not PoV character, and that leaves you guessing (in a good way) about what exactly is going on. So far the book as been entertaining.</p><p></p><p>One of the reviewer quotes at the beginning mentioned updating Korean myths to SF, which could be part of the freshness - it was quite different direction of the "tech" and cultures of SF (again, in a good way), and I'm wondering how much of that is just being completely unfamiliar with the source of inspiration.</p><p></p><p>I enjoyed the first enough to pick up the second, and it was well is proving to be an entertaining read. The ending of the first was a little bit weak but carried through on the strength of what led up to it, I'll let you know with this one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7800640, member: 20564"] Reading Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee, second book in the Machineries of Empire series. The first was very fresh in worldbuilding which had direct positive impacts on plot, writing was competent, characters where good enough. Second book is from a different character's PoV (well, both have occasional chapters from others, but one main PoV character), and the main character(s) from the first book is an important but not PoV character, and that leaves you guessing (in a good way) about what exactly is going on. So far the book as been entertaining. One of the reviewer quotes at the beginning mentioned updating Korean myths to SF, which could be part of the freshness - it was quite different direction of the "tech" and cultures of SF (again, in a good way), and I'm wondering how much of that is just being completely unfamiliar with the source of inspiration. I enjoyed the first enough to pick up the second, and it was well is proving to be an entertaining read. The ending of the first was a little bit weak but carried through on the strength of what led up to it, I'll let you know with this one. [/QUOTE]
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