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white_hart) wrote2022-04-14 07:30 pm
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Reading roundup
Lois McMaster Bujold - A Civil Campaign and Winterfair Gifts. AKA The One Where Miles Vorkosigan Goes A-Courting. Delightful comedy of manners, featuring what may be the most cringeworthy dinner party scene in the whole of literature. Winterfair Gifts is a follow-up novella which shows Miles and Ekaterin's wedding from the point of view of one of Miles's Armsmen; it felt disconcertingly like fanfic for actual canon, but was very charming.
Marie Brennan - The Tropic of Serpents. The second in the Lady Trent series about a Victorianesque Lady Explorer with bonus dragons. I remember being a bit underwhelmed by the first one and didn't find this one really managed to hold my attention. I probably won't bother with any others in the series.
Charles Stross - The Bloodline Feud. I've always felt vaguely bad about not having read much of Stross, but found the Laundry Files just not really my kind of thing (too much horror). On the other hand, this (a compilation of the first and second books in the Merchant Princes series) really is my kind of thing; portal fantasy for grown-ups, with business shenanigans, complicated family politics, and a level-headed heroine who ends up teaming up with pretty much every other woman she meets. I enjoyed it a lot.
Kay O'Neill - Princess Princess Ever After. A short and sweet middle-grade graphic novel romance between two princesses. Fluffy and fun, even if the femme princess having the same name as me was a bit disconcerting.
Marie Brennan - The Tropic of Serpents. The second in the Lady Trent series about a Victorianesque Lady Explorer with bonus dragons. I remember being a bit underwhelmed by the first one and didn't find this one really managed to hold my attention. I probably won't bother with any others in the series.
Charles Stross - The Bloodline Feud. I've always felt vaguely bad about not having read much of Stross, but found the Laundry Files just not really my kind of thing (too much horror). On the other hand, this (a compilation of the first and second books in the Merchant Princes series) really is my kind of thing; portal fantasy for grown-ups, with business shenanigans, complicated family politics, and a level-headed heroine who ends up teaming up with pretty much every other woman she meets. I enjoyed it a lot.
Kay O'Neill - Princess Princess Ever After. A short and sweet middle-grade graphic novel romance between two princesses. Fluffy and fun, even if the femme princess having the same name as me was a bit disconcerting.