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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? 28 January (self.books)

submitted 9 months ago by dresden to c/books@lemmy.world

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This week flew by pretty quickly. Didn't even get time to read all the messages in last week's post...

Finished Valour's Choice by Tanya Huff. Book 1 of Confederation. Enjoyed the book, going to continue with the series, and may check some more of Tanya Huff's work too.

Read Jujitu Kaisen Vol. 5. Nothing much to say about that, more of a manga goodness.

Started Dark Moon by David Gemell, a standalone fantasy book. This is my first Gemell book and I am enjoying it. I am about 1/3rd of the way in, and the world-building feels like something that can sustain a trilogy or even a longer series.

What about all of you? What have been reading or listening?

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[–] Glemek@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I finished Leviathan Wakes a little bit ago and am considering whether to jump right into Caliban's War or to read something else in between. Probably would do something non-fiction if I did.

[–] dresden 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How did you like Leviathan Wakes?

[–] Glemek@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I enjoyed it a lot! Its very popcorn-y and I breezed through it really fast. The hard scifi setting is really cool and feels very fleshed out and verisimilitudinous, the characters I was pretty lukewarm on tho, and it did feel pretty predictable but I'm hoping that will all get better in the sequels and it is just sortof "first bookisms" on that front.

I knew going in that the writers are kind connected to George RR Martin, and I felt like there were some cross setting parallel ideas between it and ASoIaF. Mid-read I heard that it had evolved out of a play by post forum rpg, which I thought was really cool in concept, but I also started to see the strings a little bit, y'know?

[–] dresden 1 points 9 months ago

verisimilitudinous

This is such a fun word.

Thanks for the review. Didn't know about it evolving out of a play by post forum rpg. Would love to hear what you think about sequels, once you have read them.