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Jan. 3rd, 2019 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quigonejinnHOLY SHIT MY READING LIST IS MORE ACTIVE NOW
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Clockwork Boys, Book 1
THe Wonder Engine, Book 2
Which is to say that I'm not sure the plot entirely holds together, but I tore through the first book and half of the second in a single day, and finished the second at work. There's a part where Raleigh-the-fallen-paladin is mending Mako-the-forger's shirts with tiny, even stitches. There's another part where he helps her take on and put off her boots, kneeling in front of her each time. She is complicated, and it's a fundamental feature that he isn't, except for the part where he got possessed by a demon and murdered almost a dozen people. And they may find redemption in each other.
If that's your shit, this is your shit.
Add in Chuck as an asshole assassin who has history with Mako, a version of Hermann Gottlieb who is only 19 and brilliant and sheltered, and lots of snarky banter, and I'm very pleased. There are also sentient badger-type creatures with a complex caste system and motives of their own, and well, there's a betrayal-ish at the end that makes me sigh with happiness, and emotional brutality in the beginning that also makes me sigh with happiness, and throw in a dose of T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon being a big ol' SJW, I'm practically lighting a cigarette and stretching out in bed and not even feeling guilty about how much I enjoyed this, the multiple POV's notwithstanding. I may have read the first book and a half in the course of a single day, and then finished the second while at work. That basically only happens to me with books like Wolf Hall (my all-time favorite) and NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy (which rewrote the scope of what I thought fantasy could do).
If you'd like something fluffier, this is a lot of fun and hits similar notes, though the half-serious, half-joking way the main character considers suicide may be triggering to some. But it's a story told with a light touch, and well, when I got to this one part where she ran into the super-hot order of demon-slaying paladins, I may have been like, 'SHIT I WISH THERE WERE MORE ABOUT THE PALADINS' and lo and behold, I found the Clockwork duology on Amazon, and it was probably the best money I spent at Christmas.*
* Actually, that's a lie. The best money I spent at Christmas was for my new and incredibly silly hobby of making plants out of crepe paper, but that's for another post, which I'll hopefully be doing more regularly.
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Clockwork Boys, Book 1
THe Wonder Engine, Book 2
Which is to say that I'm not sure the plot entirely holds together, but I tore through the first book and half of the second in a single day, and finished the second at work. There's a part where Raleigh-the-fallen-paladin is mending Mako-the-forger's shirts with tiny, even stitches. There's another part where he helps her take on and put off her boots, kneeling in front of her each time. She is complicated, and it's a fundamental feature that he isn't, except for the part where he got possessed by a demon and murdered almost a dozen people. And they may find redemption in each other.
If that's your shit, this is your shit.
Add in Chuck as an asshole assassin who has history with Mako, a version of Hermann Gottlieb who is only 19 and brilliant and sheltered, and lots of snarky banter, and I'm very pleased. There are also sentient badger-type creatures with a complex caste system and motives of their own, and well, there's a betrayal-ish at the end that makes me sigh with happiness, and emotional brutality in the beginning that also makes me sigh with happiness, and throw in a dose of T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon being a big ol' SJW, I'm practically lighting a cigarette and stretching out in bed and not even feeling guilty about how much I enjoyed this, the multiple POV's notwithstanding. I may have read the first book and a half in the course of a single day, and then finished the second while at work. That basically only happens to me with books like Wolf Hall (my all-time favorite) and NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy (which rewrote the scope of what I thought fantasy could do).
If you'd like something fluffier, this is a lot of fun and hits similar notes, though the half-serious, half-joking way the main character considers suicide may be triggering to some. But it's a story told with a light touch, and well, when I got to this one part where she ran into the super-hot order of demon-slaying paladins, I may have been like, 'SHIT I WISH THERE WERE MORE ABOUT THE PALADINS' and lo and behold, I found the Clockwork duology on Amazon, and it was probably the best money I spent at Christmas.*
* Actually, that's a lie. The best money I spent at Christmas was for my new and incredibly silly hobby of making plants out of crepe paper, but that's for another post, which I'll hopefully be doing more regularly.
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Date: 2019-01-04 03:03 am (UTC)