Reading in September 2012

[Rob B]

I finished up The Path of Daggers last night. Some good scenes, but the bloat is most noticeable on this volume at this point in my WOT re-read.

Slight change of pace into Tad Williams's The Dirty Streets of Heaven.

[JustaStaffer]

I finished up The Path of Daggers last night. Some good scenes, but the bloat is most noticeable on this volume at this point in my WOT re-read.

Slight change of pace into Tad Williams's The Dirty Streets of Heaven.

The curse the Bowl of Winds and everything it stands for.

I just finished A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King. Sort of a Watchman novelization, but with more existential chit-chat and less cold-war allegory.

Working on Rapture by Kameron Hurley now I think.

[DurzoBlint]

Started Midnight Riot By Ben Aaronovitch last night, it was hard to put down. Not sure why I waited so long to start reading it.

[Slice of G]

Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Probably not much I can say about this series that hasn't already been said but I really did enjoy this series. I think it lived up to all the hype it has gotten and has made me interested in what other good YA books are out there.

Staying with the YA theme and reading Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld next.

[Loerwyn]

Staying with the YA theme and reading Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld next.

Sci-fi

Fairly good book, but I found the series disappointing.

[DurzoBlint]

Finished Midnight Riot today. Damn good story, went ahead and bought books two and three and will get to them soon. In the meantime I'm reading Jonathan Maberry's Assassin's Code, part of the Joe Ledger series.

[Hellions]

I finished The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. Everything in this book was compelling and majestic: the writing, the storyline, the characters, the worldbuilding... and I greatly appreciated being a witness to Simon's journey into adolescence. The pace was at times glacial and the author did meander a bit here and there with lengthy and overdrawn sections but once everything was set in motion, what a ride!

[marshal atkins]

Just finished The Blinding Knife and have to say really liked it especially the ending really liked the ending. What i dint like where all the chapters from the color prince side found them boring and wanted to get back to Gavin or Kip soon.

I raced through those perspectives also.

Great pair of books... Thanks to this thread for leading me to Weeks works.

[PeterWilliam]

I finished The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. Everything in this book was compelling and majestic: the writing, the storyline, the characters, the worldbuilding... and I greatly appreciated being a witness to Simon's journey into adolescence. The pace was at times glacial and the author did meander a bit here and there with lengthy and overdrawn sections but once everything was set in motion, what a ride!

Agree completely. I've read it twice, but both times were well over 20 years ago. It might be time for a re-read here, just to visit Osten Ard once again.

[Contrarius]

I finished Carol Berg's Soul Mirror (2nd vol of the Collegia Magica series), which I enjoyed quite a lot. Started on The Daemon Prism, 3rd of the series. So far I'm kinda disappointed -- both because the first narrator (this one is gonna have multiple narrators, while the preceeding books had only one each) is very annoying and reads like he was reading to a 6 year old, and also because the book starts out told from Dante's POV. Dante has always been a very mysterious and difficult to fathom character in the other books, and IMHO it's a grave mistake to show us his thought processes now. But We Shall See.

[Seak]

I finished Nightglass (A Pathfinder Tales novel) by Liane Merciel last night after a quick read. Some strong elements in the novel but on the whole I didn't connect with it as much as I would have liked. Not sure if I'll read more of these Pathfinder novels aside from the one by James L. Sutter.

Anyway, onto the continuing WOT re-read with The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan.

Have you read any of Merciel's other series. The River Kings' Road and especially Heaven's Needle are excellent. Sadly, the publisher dropped her after that.

Finished Legion by Brandon Sanderson. The usual highly creative stuff in a thriller-type book. It could be argued it uses a magic system and it's pretty cool

[NickeeCoco]

I finished Carol Berg's Soul Mirror (2nd vol of the Collegia Magica series), which I enjoyed quite a lot. Started on The Daemon Prism, 3rd of the series. So far I'm kinda disappointed -- both because the first narrator (this one is gonna have multiple narrators, while the preceeding books had only one each) is very annoying and reads like he was reading to a 6 year old, and also because the book starts out told from Dante's POV. Dante has always been a very mysterious and difficult to fathom character in the other books, and IMHO it's a grave mistake to show us his thought processes now. But We Shall See.

I've been trying to finished this book for the last year, it seems like. I keep putting it aside. Dante is full of self loathing and has little to like about him. I wish he'd show more of the side he showed Anne back in the first book

when Anne did not know it was him.

It's a shame, because the first two books were great.

Have you read any of Merciel's other series. The River Kings' Road and especially Heaven's Needle are excellent. Sadly, the publisher dropped her after that.
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I wasn't a huge fan of those two books. They're weren't bad, but they weren't very special either. I thought they faded into the woodwork.

[suciul]

I've been trying to finished this book for the last year, it seems like. I keep putting it aside. Dante is full of self loathing and has little to like about him. I wish he'd show more of the side he showed Anne back in the first book

Note that Anne narrates too but later so you may want to fast forward and get there; also the ending (among the best ever series ending imho) more than makes up for the shortcomings of the novel, which indeed I found somewhat weaker than the first 2

Back on topic Imager's Battalions showed up (the first "official" 2013 novel as i read Drakenfeld 1 - A Death Divine - a while ago when it was still under wraps) and I really want to get going with it, though I plan to check out Mage's Blood tonight when the ebook is released...

[DurzoBlint]

I've been meaning to get into Merciel. This is the first negative review of the books I have encountered. I Keep looking at them on Amazon, but have yet to pull the trigger. May have to in the near future.

[Loerwyn]

Back on topic Imager's Battalions showed up (the first "official" 2013 novel as i read Drakenfeld 1 - A Death Divine - a while ago when it was still under wraps) and I really want to get going with it, though I plan to check out Mage's Blood tonight when the ebook is released...

suiciul, got a question about the second Imager series. Is it best to read it in one go? I read the first one over the space of about six months, and even then I felt I was forgetting stuff.