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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7999796" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>I finished Ada Palmer's <em>Too Like the Lightning</em>. An engrossing book. Fantastic and fresh world building (much like the Yoon Ha Lee <em>Machinations of the Empire</em> I read a few months back in being very fresh and expecting the reader to be able to pick it up).</p><p></p><p>Too Like the Lightning is told by a somewhat-reliable narrator writing an account of the earlier days, with a very Victorian England feel to the writing and dialog. It's in the future, and the culture and the implications of it are very well explored. The plot is of interest, but almost take a side seat to the boldly imagined characters you meet. There are a number of philosophical diversions, but they support the story, not derail it. There's a tonal shift after a particular set of big mysteries are revealed, very intentional but a bit jarring to me.</p><p></p><p>When I got to the end and found it wasn't a stand-alone book (happily - the ending would have been horribly rushed as we got deeper and things got more convoluted), I immediately ordered the second and third ones. (It's a quartet.) Take that as proof that I liked it, but a portion of that is I <em>must</em> know where they are going.</p><p></p><p>While waiting for that to arrive I'm reading two other books. I'm reading <em>The Sword of Summer</em>, the first of Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase series. Same author as Percy Jackson, but this one is Norse. It's ... decent. It has the same type of earnest, snarky and likable but somewhat clueless protagonist thrown into a tense, imminent, and world-alerting event they (explicitly they) need to resolve with plucky, competent, quirky companions. I enjoyed the Percy Jackson first series. This feels ... like popcorn. It's a fun read but isn't catching me the same way. I'm more interested in one of the companions then Magnus Chase -- though that may have been true for the Percy Jackson books as well as I really enjoyed Annabeth. Who happens to be the cousin of this book's protagonist. I'm a bit more than halfway through, we'll see how it ends up.</p><p></p><p>Then I have my "kindle" book for reading while my wife is asleep. Unfortunately my kindle was lost for a while, so I'm jumping back into a story with a big gap. <em>Redshirts</em> by John Scalzi has that unfairness going against it, but everything is writ so large (and the characters were such tropes) that it's easy to pick back up and get into it again. Only a few chapters last night, I don't want to rate on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7999796, member: 20564"] I finished Ada Palmer's [I]Too Like the Lightning[/I]. An engrossing book. Fantastic and fresh world building (much like the Yoon Ha Lee [I]Machinations of the Empire[/I] I read a few months back in being very fresh and expecting the reader to be able to pick it up). Too Like the Lightning is told by a somewhat-reliable narrator writing an account of the earlier days, with a very Victorian England feel to the writing and dialog. It's in the future, and the culture and the implications of it are very well explored. The plot is of interest, but almost take a side seat to the boldly imagined characters you meet. There are a number of philosophical diversions, but they support the story, not derail it. There's a tonal shift after a particular set of big mysteries are revealed, very intentional but a bit jarring to me. When I got to the end and found it wasn't a stand-alone book (happily - the ending would have been horribly rushed as we got deeper and things got more convoluted), I immediately ordered the second and third ones. (It's a quartet.) Take that as proof that I liked it, but a portion of that is I [I]must[/I] know where they are going. While waiting for that to arrive I'm reading two other books. I'm reading [I]The Sword of Summer[/I], the first of Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase series. Same author as Percy Jackson, but this one is Norse. It's ... decent. It has the same type of earnest, snarky and likable but somewhat clueless protagonist thrown into a tense, imminent, and world-alerting event they (explicitly they) need to resolve with plucky, competent, quirky companions. I enjoyed the Percy Jackson first series. This feels ... like popcorn. It's a fun read but isn't catching me the same way. I'm more interested in one of the companions then Magnus Chase -- though that may have been true for the Percy Jackson books as well as I really enjoyed Annabeth. Who happens to be the cousin of this book's protagonist. I'm a bit more than halfway through, we'll see how it ends up. Then I have my "kindle" book for reading while my wife is asleep. Unfortunately my kindle was lost for a while, so I'm jumping back into a story with a big gap. [I]Redshirts[/I] by John Scalzi has that unfairness going against it, but everything is writ so large (and the characters were such tropes) that it's easy to pick back up and get into it again. Only a few chapters last night, I don't want to rate on that. [/QUOTE]
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