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  • #7352
    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    ednwireland wrote: »
    thieves world , bought the 3rd book many many years ago just had 1 and 2 delivered 2nd hand from USA

    How are they? I've never read any of them, but heard about them... being a big fan of Asprin's MYTH series. Wondering if these are worthwhile... thanks.


  • #7353
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Blackhorse Slim wrote: »
    How are they? I've never read any of them, but heard about them... being a big fan of Asprin's MYTH series. Wondering if these are worthwhile... thanks.

    well i love shadows of sanctuary! think the different perspectives form different authors is great which is why i got the first two 2nd hand form the states. i think theres 8 original ones.

    Never realised theres a whole RPG /D&D type thing around them just had an old 2nd hand book i bought 30 years ago on the shelf (didnt realise it was a series until a couple of years ago :D)

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #7354
    RMDrive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭RMDrive


    On the last book of the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks (book 5). I'm listening to it on Audible and I'm really enjoying it. He writes very witty characters and I regularly find myself chuckling while on my commute. One of the most enjoyable series I've read in years.

    Also reading the Demon Cycle by Peter Brett - currently on book 3. Enjoyed the first couple but finding that this one is dragging a lot. Will battle through.


  • #7355
    Jayd0g
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Jayd0g


    RMDrive wrote: »
    On the last book of the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks (book 5). I'm listening to it on Audible and I'm really enjoying it. He writes very witty characters and I regularly find myself chuckling while on my commute. One of the most enjoyable series I've read in years.

    Also reading the Demon Cycle by Peter Brett - currently on book 3. Enjoyed the first couple but finding that this one is dragging a lot. Will battle through.

    Similar experience with the Demon Cycle.

    Introducing new character viewpoints and delaying plot progress to flesh out their history is a bit frustrating.

    I've finished book 4 and will stick with it as I'm curious to see how it ends.


  • #7356
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    ^ Same as above. Reckon it would have been a good trilogy as it just seemed a bit too padded out in places. I did enjoy it as a series though, just felt it'd have made a more exciting read if the filler was removed.


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  • #7357
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    finish windup girl. Really enjoyed the ending.

    Went back to Sanderson - Mistborn - book 4, was hoping he'd have this series finished by the time I started but I guess I'll have to wait for the last one.


  • #7358
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I'm re-reading some of the classics after spending longer than I'd like finishing the dire Witcher series. I finished Lord Valentine's Castle the other night. I hadn't read it in over 30 years, it's still damn good but the final third is a bit dull. I then started The Chronicles of Amber which I hadn't read in 20 years. It's still great as ever.


  • #7359
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    * 'The Monster Baru Cormorant' by Seth Dickinson, the second book in his Masquerade series. I knew this one was considered flawed going in so it wasn't quite as poor as I feared but still a very different beast to the first one. The cold calculations and manipulations are gone. The politics are shoved aside for an adventure quest almost and emotions, hidden before, are much more openly displayed on all characters. It's quite jarring and it doesn't really help that it feels very much like half a book, with just a cliffhanger.
    There's some good bits in it - the leman character of Tau is interesting and Dickinson has done some interesting work with the cultures which, if anything, might draw a bit from African lore. The viewpoint of those cultures is an interesting comparison to the sterile, rule driven, hygienic Baru is fighting against. It just still feels like a different beast but, I'm encouraged to see, that the third book looks like it shifts it all back into place.

    * 'Rogue Protocol' by Matha Wells, the third book in her Murderbot series. For me, it was the weakest so far. I think it's because the plot was a little bland, feeling a bit like a filler and that's even with it being a novella. The character of Miki definitely helped and I was never bored but wasn't fully drawn in either. Perfectly happy to read more though as I know Wells can deliver better.


  • #7360
    Jayd0g
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Jayd0g


    ixoy wrote: »
    * '

    * 'Rogue Protocol' by Matha Wells, the third book in her Murderbot series. For me, it was the weakest so far. I think it's because the plot was a little bland, feeling a bit like a filler and that's even with it being a novella. The character of Miki definitely helped and I was never bored but wasn't fully drawn in either. Perfectly happy to read more though as I know Wells can deliver better.

    Have just finished this too, and agree 100%. It was entertaining enough though.

    I'm tempted to try one of Martha Wells other series based on enjoying the Murderbot Diaries.

    Any recommendations on where to start?


  • #7361
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    * 'Skysworn' by Will Wight, the fourth book in his 'Cradle' series. Very easy to read, a lot of fun (again). It also more firmly set up the scale of the series and the stakes at play in some very satisfying action pieces.

    * 'The Crystal Shard' by R.A. Salvatore, the first book in his Icewind Dale trilogy. This is "old school" fantasy and it really showed. Found it a bit of a slog - stodgy writing, cardboard characters, a terrible villain (he actually does manic laughing) and a bland plot. It's his first published book and, having read the chronologically previous trilogy, I know he can write better. Very bland.


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  • #7362
    Malaya Immense Veil
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Malaya Immense Veil


    Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. I googled scariest books and it came up on a lot of lists. Took ages to find it somewhere online the wasn't bookdepository or amazon. Couldn't find anywhere in Ireland :(

    Gonna start reading tonight. Hopefully it'll frighten the life out of me :)


  • #7363
    Beanstalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Beanstalk


    Back reading the Sparhawk novels by David Eddings. They're not bad, a good page turner. Really struggling to find new fantasy that I like these days.


  • #7364
    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    Beanstalk wrote: »
    Back reading the Sparhawk novels by David Eddings. They're not bad, a good page turner. Really struggling to find new fantasy that I like these days.

    If you haven't already, check out the Riyria Revelations by Michael J Sullivan. Although new, this is very much classic fantasy in the old style. Also worth looking at Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames.


  • #7365
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    lordgoat wrote: »
    finish windup girl. Really enjoyed the ending.

    Went back to Sanderson - Mistborn - book 4, was hoping he'd have this series finished by the time I started but I guess I'll have to wait for the last one.

    Had to go back to Mistborn 1-3 as I had forgotten the magic system so enjoying these again before Mistborn book 5!

    Beanstalk wrote: »
    Back reading the Sparhawk novels by David Eddings. They're not bad, a good page turner. Really struggling to find new fantasy that I like these days.

    Feist! If you haven't read him. Or Sanderson - Mistborn. Or Joe Abercrombie.


  • #7366
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,810 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Just finished "The Windup Girl." Interesting read and the ending was a bit of a surprise. Now onto "Vicious" by V. E. Schwab. Yet another 'super abilities revealed while at University to attractive students." Hopefully it improves.

    For those looking for great vintage. Saberhagen's "Books of Lost Swords" are fantastic. They're from the mid/late 80's/early 90's, which I suppose makes them vintage though I remember eagerly buying them when they were new! :p:p


  • #7367
    The White Feather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    The White Feather wrote: »
    Still working away on the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

    Finished both The Bonehunters and Reapers Gale. Long but fun reads!

    Next up is the 8th book "Toll the Hounds" *Deep breath* :pac:

    Finished Toll the Hounds and Dust of Dreams. I didn't like the first but loved the second!

    Now onto the final book in the series. "The Crippled God"


  • #7368
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,683 ✭✭✭Glebee


    Glebee wrote: »
    Still on House of Chains, 60% through.:(
    Definitely not as baffling as previous books but I still have those wtf was that moments as the book progressed. I keep saying "thats it, im finished with malazan after this one', but Midnight Tides was 99p on Amazon last week so I bought it. I think they really need to be read one after the other as I usually end up breaking and find myself forgetting sections of the previous book when I go back again. Im guessing if I have an 90% idea of whats going on over the entire series so far im doing well.

    Eventually got finished with House of Chains. What started off as a great read turned into a bit of a slog for me and ended on a whimper I felt. So far my least favourite Malazan book. Even though I have next one ready to go I am defo taking a break from Malazan and im not sure if ill return for a while, if ever.


  • #7369
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Finished the first Expanse novel, Leviathan Awakes. Halfway through I thought it was the best SF I'd read in years, than it went all aimless for a long while until a decent ending. It redeemed itself enough to make me read the second at some point.

    Now on the last of Hamilton's Salvation novels. Not his best by any means but still good.


  • #7370
    Gary kk
    Registered Users Posts: 675 ✭✭✭Gary kk


    Finished, The Holes in the Sky by Peter F Hamilton.

    It definitely had holes in it maybe the second book will fill in some story lines. But it feels like there was not enough time hashing it out.

    Don't get me wrong it is enjoyable just don't over think it.


  • #7371
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    The Ghost Dance Judgement (Golgotha Book 4) by RS Belcher

    About 20% in and loving it. A real page turner for me. Belcher has some crazy imagination but its a highly entertaining fun read.


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  • #7372
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    * 'Falling Free' by Lois McMaster Bujold, another entry in the Vorkosigan Saga. This one doesn't feature the Vorkosigan family, and is set prior to the main saga and it's the weakest installment. The lead character doesn't have any of the witty humour of Miles (and even Ehtan in 'Ethan of Athos' was more interesting).
    The villain in this is almost comical which disengages me as Bujold is very well able to write three dimensional characters. The plot itself does show more of her hallmarks - clever innovative solutions to problems. It just feels like a weak knock off of her work (and it doesn't help the last book I read by her was the superb 'Memory').

    * 'Blackwing' by Ed McDonald, the first book in 'The Raven's Wing' trilogy. Very much enjoyed this one. It's grimdark but done quite well - the setting is pretty interesting, the stakes are high, and it's fairly breezy at 360 pages. It also wraps up its main plot in the one book with threads left for the sequels.


  • #7373
    The White Feather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    I have just finished "The Actuality" by Paul Braddon. A debut Sci Fi novel that I really liked. Set in the future in England about a sentient robot when they have been banned. Reminded me of the movie Ex Machina if you have seen that.

    Now reading the latest one from Andy Weir. "Project Hail Mary" It seems like "The Martian" with a guy in space on his own. Enjoying it so far.


  • #7374
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    ixoy wrote: »

    * 'Blackwing' by Ed McDonald, the first book in 'The Raven's Wing' trilogy. Very much enjoyed this one. It's grimdark but done quite well - the setting is pretty interesting, the stakes are high, and it's fairly breezy at 360 pages. It also wraps up its main plot in the one book with threads left for the sequels.


    Thanks for the reminder I have it sitting on my shelf since he wrote it , along with 2 & 3.

    Hope to start it next.Hopefully.....


  • #7375
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,683 ✭✭✭Glebee


    I know its not really sci fi/fantasy but really enjoying The Pillars of the Earth. Getting a game of thrones vibe off it without the dragons or zombies...


  • #7376
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Just finished Dark Matter (Blake Crouch).

    First book I've gotten into in a while. Really enjoyed it.
    Excited to see it's likely to get developed for TV, too. It's a story that could really make the jump.


  • #7377
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    Glebee wrote: »
    I know its not really sci fi/fantasy but really enjoying The Pillars of the Earth. Getting a game of thrones vibe off it without the dragons or zombies...

    I find a lot of overlap between historical fiction and fantasy. Guy gavriel Kay is the most obvious overlap I suppose. But if you want historical fiction with "game of throne" vibes have a look at bernard cornwell and especially his Saxon stories - which were the basis for "the last kingdom" on Netflix.


  • #7378
    Yareli Small Above
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Yareli Small Above


    Kate elliott's crown of stars series has a lot of clear historical research in there as well.


  • #7379
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Yareli Small Above wrote: »
    Kate elliott's crown of stars series has a lot of clear historical research in there as well.
    As an aside, she did an AMA on /r/fantasy yesterday and I asked her a question about the series and she came back with detail on the elements of history she modeled the religion on.


  • #7380
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,810 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    As I've been kind of disappointed by my last sequence of more recent writers, I went back to an oldie-but-goodie, Raymond Feist, one of his Riftwar saga stuff. Simple, action packed, well known characters (and it's been decades since I last read one.) Onto "Into a Dark Realm" where they chase the bad guy around Kelewan


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  • #7381
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    * 'A Plague of Swords' by Miles Cameron, the fourth book in his 'The Traitor Son' cycle. Split into five parts, the first of which I found kind of slow, I enjoyed a welcome change of pace from the many military battles to a greater focus on powerful magic forces. It really helped ramp up the scale, even if it felt a little bit like a set up for the final book. Still could be edited down a bit and there's no need to introduce every knight and his page by name..

    * 'Ravencry' by Ed McDonald, the second book in the 'Raven's Mark' trilogy. Picking up a few years after the previous installment, it works well enough as a standalone but benefits more from building on the characters set up from the previous. I don't think the stakes felt quite as high at the end but the character arcs were probably stronger. It's first-person grimdark but the lead is one of those where he's not nearly as bad as he wants to think he is. Fairly breezy clocking in under 400 pages.


  • #7382
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    I'm after falling in love with Martha Well's Murderbot Diaries. What a charming character development and writing style and so up my street its unreal. Have read all 5 novellas and Network Effect twice now and have to stop myself starting over again. Feck it. Why would I stop myself? ;)


  • #7383
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Nearly finished book 3 of the Harry dresden files by jim butcher.

    Nice easy read... Wizard private dick stories set in contemporary Chicago.


  • #7384
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,775 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Nearly finished book 3 of the Harry dresden files by jim butcher.

    Nice easy read... Wizard private dick stories set in contemporary Chicago.

    They are good craic. Some of them are very good. The last two have been dreadful though, hope he returns to form whenever the next one arrives


  • #7385
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    Finished the three books in the poppy war trilogy. Would recommend, but wouldn't rave about.

    Now onto "under heaven", to keep with the chinese theme. I love Guy Gavriel Kay and so far it is very good, but not far into it.

    I find reading on a kindle I tend to rush books sometimes when i know i have a good book to move onto next, so I did kind of push through the end of the poppy war trilogy quickly. Other thing with a kindle is that you can miss the title of books you are reading, I actually don't remember what the title of the third book was, even though i finished it a day or two ago.


  • #7386
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    All the Cradle books are free, today only, thats the deal of the year!

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0753FP6SP


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  • #7387
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    "The Human" by Neal Asher, the final book in his 'Rise of the Jain' trilogy. Wasn't a big fan of this - it felt like one OTT over-powered battle sequence, where Asher just spewed a load of pseudo-technical science. There was next to no character development as everyone "evolves" into a sort of battle machine - it's somewhat the point but it doesn't make for interesting reading where you don't really care about any of the characters. The whole trilogy could easily have been condensed into two, maybe even one, book and cut out on some of the detached battles. Perhaps time for a little break from Asher after 25+ books.


  • #7388
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    ixoy wrote: »
    "The Human" by Neal Asher, the final book in his 'Rise of the Jain' trilogy. Wasn't a big fan of this - it felt like one OTT over-powered battle sequence, where Asher just spewed a load of pseudo-technical science. There was next to no character development as everyone "evolves" into a sort of battle machine - it's somewhat the point but it doesn't make for interesting reading where you don't really care about any of the characters. The whole trilogy could easily have been condensed into two, maybe even one, book and cut out on some of the detached battles. Perhaps time for a little break from Asher after 25+ books.

    Have to agree, disappointing streak from one of my favourites. Having said that Lockdown Tales is a good read


  • #7389
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    I've finished "under heaven" by Guy Gavriel Kay.

    It was beyond excellent, do yourself a favour and read this book if you haven't yet.

    Based on these historical events:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion


  • #7390
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,601 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    Finished the first Expanse novel, Leviathan Awakes. Halfway through I thought it was the best SF I'd read in years, than it went all aimless for a long while until a decent ending. It redeemed itself enough to make me read the second at some point.....

    Think I'm on the third. I'm taking a break though. Quite dense and as you say often rambles. I'm very impressed with how they made the TV show script.

    I'm back reading some of the lost stars series. Very simplistic in many aspects (and annoyingly so) but the ship combat and tactics in space is really why you'd read them.

    Annoying part is the Kindle interface. It's just so bad. There's is no way to know which book follows another. Collections are not that much help. Also why can't publishers put the dang number in the title.


  • #7391
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Read Project Hail Mary, not as irritating as the Martian and it had a good premise but still a very annoying writing style, smug geek saying I did this, then I did this, then I did this.

    Moved on to A Memory Called Empire now and loving it, reminds me of The Culture.
    Fian wrote: »
    I've finished "under heaven" by Guy Gavriel Kay.

    It was beyond excellent, do yourself a favour and read this book if you haven't yet.

    Based on these historical events:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion
    The sequel is just as good, an amazing pair of books.


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  • #7392
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Oh yes, new Adrian Tchaikovsky time. Trilogy practically finished by the sounds of it...

    udRNKgA.jpg
    Shards of Earth, book 1 of the Final Architecture series, is out in the UK today! (US readers will see their edition in August, so apologies for that.)

    This is the start of my space opera series, meaning it's SF where I get to play with toys that probably couldn't exist under real physics, such as FTL travel and artificial gravity. Given that it's me, of course, the precise parameters for how all this works in the book got pretty intricate and expanded to become the core of what's going on

    In Shards of Earth, the aforementioned Earth got twisted into an avant-garde sculpture by a moon-sized entity known as an Architect, prompting a centiry long 'war' that was mostly just humans fleeing across the galaxy as their colonies were served similarly, one by one. Humans developed a secret weapon known as Intermediaries, people whose surgically-mauled brains were able to reach out and contact the Architects. And as soon as they managed that, the Architects just… left.

    Fifty years later, Idris, one of the last of the original Ints, is keeping his head down on a tatty old salvage ship known as the Vulture God. Ints are also able to navigate ships through unspace without having to stick to the existing pathways between star systems, making them fantastically valuable to commercial and military traffic. Hence, from being war heroes, Intermediaries are now a commodity, made wholesale out of convicts and undesirables in a ruinously wasteful process. Idris, who has neither aged nor slept since the war, just wants to stay under the radar. Until, on one of their deep-space salvage jobs, the crew of the Vulture God find fresh evidence that the Architects are back…

    The universe of Shards of Earth was (and continues to be, as I'm currently working on the third and final volume) enormous fun to write. It's full of alien cultures, weird planets and outrageous characters. A couple of my favourites amongst the supporting cast include Aklu the Unspeakable (the Razor and the Hook) an alien gangster… or maybe gangster, because it's sufficiently alien that what it thinks of its role in events is entirely opaque; and Trine, a colony of cybernetic insects (of course!) originally created as a records repository for archaeologists which has, through dint of just existing for decades longer than intended, become a self-proclaimed expert in the field.


  • #7393
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Thargor wrote: »
    Oh yes, new Adrian Tchaikovsky time. Trilogy practically finished by the sounds of it...
    I'm 26% in and very much enjoying it so far :)


  • #7394
    Yareli Small Above
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Yareli Small Above


    Priory of the orange tree - loved it


  • #7395
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Finished the fourth book in the Bobiverse series, light enough but really great fun on audible for when your doing chores around the house. Not exactly Sci-Fi / Fantasy but just started into The Windup Bird Chronicle by Murukami and loving it.


  • #7396
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Thargor wrote: »
    Oh yes, new Adrian Tchaikovsky time. Trilogy practically finished by the sounds of it...

    Currently relistening to children of time. One of my all time faves so might have to check this out. But also trying to get back into reading reading over the summer and am about 10% into House of Leaves, my fourth attempt at reading it so it might have to wait..


  • #7397
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    smacl wrote: »
    Finished the fourth book in the Bobiverse series, light enough but really great fun on audible for when your doing chores around the house. Not exactly Sci-Fi / Fantasy but just started into The Windup Bird Chronicle by Murukami and loving it.

    Love Murakami


  • #7398
    Jayd0g
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Jayd0g


    Just finished book 2 of Miles Cameron's Cold Iron trilogy.

    These are real page turners, reminds me of Wheel of Time but faster paced.

    Starting book 3 tonight, eager to find out how this will all end.


  • #7399
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    * 'Shards of Earth' by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the first book in his 'The Final Architects' trilogy. I really enjoyed this space opera. The author, as stated above, had a lot of fun writing it and it shows because it's a lot of fun to read. Good characters, an interesting plot, strong pacing, good worldbuilding, etc. It's short too - which is the only downside as I've to wait now for the next book. It being Tchaikovsky he'll probably publish 24 more works in the interim.
    Oh and a strong way for me to finish this year's "Goodreads Reading Challenge" (yeah, I think I underestimated the books I'd get through...).

    * 'Crowfall' by Ed McDonald, the final book in his Raven's Mark trilogy. A solid end to the series. For me it helps that each book is somewhat standalone but builds on the foundations of the previous ones. This one is a little bit more different than previous ones (for spoiler reasons) but it helps remove the chance of what might have been a tad repetitive as a result. A good series, if not an outstanding one.


  • #7400
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    Finished "river of stars" guy gavriel Kay.

    Excellent, though I preferred "under heaven" tbh.

    Now onto "Klara and the Sun", Kazuo Ishiguro. That book is starting slowly but we will see.


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    Fian
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    Finished "Klara and the sun."

    "strange but good" is probably the best description I can give of it.

    Not as moving as "never let me go" imo, but it did have a similar sort of poignancy, could see it being made into a tearjerker type film.

    I am going on holiday in a month and am kind of keen to save some good books for that rather than starting them now.


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