RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[spiralsheep]

What are you reading?

Comments

[white_aster]

I just finished The Devils by Joe Abercrombie (good, bloody fun, though I could have done without this AU just substituting "bloodthirsty cannibalistic elves" for Eastern peoples.)

Currently reading:

- Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes (so far, I'm about a third of the way through and things are both starting to get weird and starting to get frustrating because it's obvious I haven't yet been given enough background to figure out if the weirdness is deliberate or just wonky plotting.)

- Into the Broken Lands by Tanya Huff (started slow, and though it's picking up, it's starting to feel repetitive and I'm REALLY not looking forward to another 66% of the book with some of the characters - there's a few incredibly arrogant and entitled characters that I wish would just get eaten by monsters already, but know that at least the one won't be.)

- The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher (entertaining enough, though reading this at the same time as The Devils was really messing with me - totally different tones. Also I feel like in later books she realized, oh, wait, maybe leaning so hard on the "gnoles are like dogs" isn't a good look...? Because yeah, the gnole character being treated like a talking dog in this is not a good look.

[spiralsheep]

"I haven't yet been given enough background to figure out if the weirdness is deliberate or just wonky plotting"

Lol, yes, it can be very irritating when books do that for more than the first third (or whatever an individual writer can sustain).

[white_aster]

Lol, yeah. I came to Huff through her big military scifi series and eventually dropped off it because sometimes her writing just is hard for me to envision, and every now and then I read the in-book reasoning for why someone did something and go, "...that doesn't sound like the easiest way to deal with that at ALL". So, we'll see how this book goes.