Books 2009 - 1

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Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey - yes, I like this series, and this was a good one.

Books I did not finish - Grunts! - Mary Gentle - Just couldn't get into it, so I put it down.


Year's total: 14

Comments

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I have been avoiding the non-Kushiel Careys, and by your description, that sounds like a good thing!

I am waiting for Mercy in paperback - I am too poor to buy hardcovers. I am glad to see, by the first chapter of it, that Imriel has to work to get his one-true-love. And yes, of course she had to die so he could be happy. Carey would not write her hero into so untenable a situation for the entire series. It must be nice to have an author.

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You are going to really love Kushiel's Mercy. Maybe you can find it your public library?

The novel isn't only about Their Great Love of the Ages either, which is why it is so good. I was very impressed by Carey's skillful management of Fantasy tropes and her own worldbuilding to run a paradigm in this novel that could, in a Fantasy way, explain what happened to our own nation in the last 8 years.

Someone else who did this, quite some ago, was Guy Gavriel Kaye, with his seminal Tigana, which is still far and away his most successful book, and which many Fantasy writers have mined for elements in their own work, as with Robin Hobb and her Fool.

Love, C.

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The library has copies, but I have plenty 'nough to read, so I am in no hurry. I save these books for when I need something that will absorb me, because I need to hide from the stress of my own life.

Based on what you said, I am looking forward even more to the new book!

Tigana was fantastic, and I liked a lot of his other work, too. I haven't finished the Byzantine-ish series yet, though.

Hmmm... I haven't read the Fool books yet, only the Assassin ones, and it has been about a decade since I read Tigana. Maybe I should reread it soon....