by Elizabeth Bear
I really, really don't like books that do not have a complete plot within the novel. It is a problem that plagues many a fantasy novel. There are some books where the author makes not bones about the fact that this book is not a complete story (like The Lord of The Rings, or The Orphan's Tale), but ...
Almost the only thing I don't like about this book is the title. It's just too nondescript, and I kept forgetting what it was. I kept telling my husband about this great Elizabeth Bear book I was reading....uh...what's-it's-title. I can remember the titles for the next two in the series much more ea...
So yes, updating last night did not happen. Baking bread while reading did (and it even turned out!). Today I’m at work until 5, which means the bulk of my reading will have to happen this evening. The Grand Plan to Fix Everything by Uma Krishnaswami-finished Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson-finished...
I loved, loved, loved the world building in this book. You can see that amount of work and research that when into creating each world with its own history and internal politics, and culture. And I found it really fascinating that each world has its own cosmology and astrology and rules. Temur's wor...
I’ve been meaning to read Elizabeth Bear for some time now, and after taking up Worlds Without End‘s Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, Range of Ghosts came out on top of that list. I was almost put off immediately after reading the first few pages – the premise is great, but the prose seemed...
It took me a couple of chapters to get into this book. But after the first appearance of Samarkar, I was hooked. Over the course of the book I came to be equally invested in all the main characters, but she was the one that first grabbed me. Let me just describe her badass-ness for a quick second: h...
I actually liked the book about 4.5 star's-worth but I found that I kept thinking about the story long after I'd finished it, so I give it a full five stars because it's stuck with me.This is probably the most difficult book I've ever read for my own pleasure. It was like an intense hike, grueling a...
IT'S SO PRETTY.Why haven't I read this yet, seriously.
I found this one quite good. The prose was great and it was quite well written. The mythology angle especially was pretty interesting. For instance, some lands had a moon for every descendent of the great Khan while another had a sun that rose in the west and set in the east. The problem is that de...
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