Read Turn Coat, book 11 of the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
Another bad people/creatures/whatever doing bad stuff with magic, while Dresden stops them, while getting completely beat up book. I don’t mean that as a bad thing though. That’s why I read the books!
This had some interesting world-building stuff, with some new stuff in over-arching story. Also read the short story that takes place after the book (in the anthology Side Jobs), an interesting look at the relationship between Harry and Murphy.
Currently reading Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 of second era of Mistborn. Just started it, so don’t have much to say about it yet.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Dresden is a bit like a roller coaster where the 1st 3 books are the hill you ratchet up, about midway of book 3 is where you start to crest the 1st hill and see what’s coming up. And while there’s some good twists and turns and thrills up to Turn Coat, it’s pretty tame with some surprising drops and twists.
Turn Coat is kind of the crest of the roller coaster before the bottom drops out headed into the underground tunnel you didn’t know was coming, it really starts to accelerate and spin out quickly after this.
Finished Perdido Street Station by China Miéville last night. I enjoyed it a lot, but it was one of the most relentlessly miserable books I’ve read in a long time. Bad things happen, continue to happen, segue into more bad things, and then the book ends. Looking forward to the sequel…after a sufficiently long break to recover.
Just started Ancillary Sword by Anne Leckie. I enjoyed the first in the series (Ancillary Justice) and am hoping this one will manage to meet the same standards.
Also picked up False Value by Ben Aaronovitch, to start when I finish Ancillary Sword. The Peter Grant series is something that I’d hesitate to say is good, as such, but they’re enjoyable and a much needed palate cleanser before tackling something punchier again.
I’m interested in those Dresden books. I’ve read all of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, and the premise sounds similar, albeit with an American setting rather than a British one. I did a quick search and saw a description which mentioned ‘hard boiled’ detective fiction - I’m not a fan of Raymond Chandler-style prose, so I wonder if that’s a feature of the Dresden series.
As for me, I just finished Bleak House by Charles Dickens. I’m reading all of his novels chronologically, but for a bit light relief I’m now reading Hamlet by Wm. Shakespeare.
The Word For World is Forest by Ursula LeGuin. I hated most of the first chapter but it’s improved since then.
Still working my way through Dungeon Crawler Carl. Haven’t had to go to the office recently so haven’t listened much.
