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Review time!
After having been on a losing streak for a while (Witchmark, The Angel of the Crows, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, and Shadows Rising were all varying degrees of disappointing), I appear to be on an equal-and-opposite winning streak, because each of the books below was a Fucking Delight, albeit in different ways.
Usual blanket warning for All The Spoilers below the cuts!
First, off: Winter's Orbit, by Everina Maxwell.
( Mutual competence kink! Political machinations! Bears!... )
TL;DR: Delightful tropey space opera that helped me crystallize a lot of why I like the things I like; plz fling violently and lovingly at the head of your nearest Vorkosigan Saga fan.
And, speaking of Lois McMaster Bujold's works...
The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
( Apparently I just really like Lois McMaster Bujold as a writer... )
TL;DR: Not at all what I expected, but 95% utterly delightful (by which I mean "frequently painful") and 5% "...why does this need to be here again?" romance.
Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
( I've never read a protagonist quite like this before... )
TL;DR: I remain utterly in awe of LMB's skills regarding characterization, worldbuilding, and creating utterly unexpected protagonists that I love wholeheartedly.
After having been on a losing streak for a while (Witchmark, The Angel of the Crows, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, and Shadows Rising were all varying degrees of disappointing), I appear to be on an equal-and-opposite winning streak, because each of the books below was a Fucking Delight, albeit in different ways.
Usual blanket warning for All The Spoilers below the cuts!
First, off: Winter's Orbit, by Everina Maxwell.
( Mutual competence kink! Political machinations! Bears!... )
TL;DR: Delightful tropey space opera that helped me crystallize a lot of why I like the things I like; plz fling violently and lovingly at the head of your nearest Vorkosigan Saga fan.
And, speaking of Lois McMaster Bujold's works...
The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
( Apparently I just really like Lois McMaster Bujold as a writer... )
TL;DR: Not at all what I expected, but 95% utterly delightful (by which I mean "frequently painful") and 5% "...why does this need to be here again?" romance.
Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
( I've never read a protagonist quite like this before... )
TL;DR: I remain utterly in awe of LMB's skills regarding characterization, worldbuilding, and creating utterly unexpected protagonists that I love wholeheartedly.
