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mellicious) wrote2020-12-02 11:26 pm
mellicious) wrote2020-12-02 11:26 pm
Book report
(Possible spoilers here, although I tried to be relatively discreet!)
I was poking around in old entries last night, and I found where I said in 2018 that I had read the first Expanse book, and I enjoyed it, and also that I had no idea where the series was going. Now I can't even remember the name of the first book. I'm going to have to go look it up. (later - it's Leviathan Wakes. I get those names mixed up.) Anyway, I have now read all of those books there currently are to read, which I believe is eight out of projected total of nine. And I love all of them. I think if I had to pick a favorite I would pick the "middle" one - book 5, which is called Nemesis Games. It's got incredibly harrowing stuff going on in it, but I love the way the characters all fan out at the beginning and later come back together. I looked on Goodreads and apparently the ninth and last book is set to come out next October. It's called Leviathan Falls, they say. (Maybe that will help me remember the whole "leviathan" thing!)
Another series I've been reading since 2018 or so is Seanan McGuire's October Daye books - from hard sci-fi above we go now to fairies. I love both, honestly. I said in 2018 that I had already read nine of them. She puts out one a year and is now up to 14, and I have read them all multiple times. She has a contract for another three, I read. And I'll keep reading them as long as she cares to keep writing them! I got to the big reveal in the last book and had to go way way back (book 4 or 5, I think?) to find where that plotline quietly started. So I've been reading and re-reading a lot.
I've read other stuff, too, and I have a good list because as I mentioned last night, I now have a reading journal. Maybe I'll come back to this topic later, but this is enough for tonight!
I was poking around in old entries last night, and I found where I said in 2018 that I had read the first Expanse book, and I enjoyed it, and also that I had no idea where the series was going. Now I can't even remember the name of the first book. I'm going to have to go look it up. (later - it's Leviathan Wakes. I get those names mixed up.) Anyway, I have now read all of those books there currently are to read, which I believe is eight out of projected total of nine. And I love all of them. I think if I had to pick a favorite I would pick the "middle" one - book 5, which is called Nemesis Games. It's got incredibly harrowing stuff going on in it, but I love the way the characters all fan out at the beginning and later come back together. I looked on Goodreads and apparently the ninth and last book is set to come out next October. It's called Leviathan Falls, they say. (Maybe that will help me remember the whole "leviathan" thing!)
Another series I've been reading since 2018 or so is Seanan McGuire's October Daye books - from hard sci-fi above we go now to fairies. I love both, honestly. I said in 2018 that I had already read nine of them. She puts out one a year and is now up to 14, and I have read them all multiple times. She has a contract for another three, I read. And I'll keep reading them as long as she cares to keep writing them! I got to the big reveal in the last book and had to go way way back (book 4 or 5, I think?) to find where that plotline quietly started. So I've been reading and re-reading a lot.
I've read other stuff, too, and I have a good list because as I mentioned last night, I now have a reading journal. Maybe I'll come back to this topic later, but this is enough for tonight!