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Mervi2012
Posted 2018-05-11 4:07 PM (#17012 - in reply to #16634)
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I'm sorry you didn't like McGuire's Local Habitation. It was the weakest book in the series for me, too. Chessmen of Mars is one of my favorite books in the Barsoom series, so I'm happy you liked it, too.

I've read quite a bit:
Jennifer Foehner Wells' Fluency turned out to be a disappoitment. It started out nicely with a huge alien object in the Greater Asteroid Belt. NASA sends a group of scientists to exlopre. Unfortunately, this turned to be a romance between the magical linguist and one of the astronauts.

In contrast I really liked R. J. Stearn's Barbary Station which is about space pirates! Two engineers want to join up a space pirate fleet. They hijack a colony ship thinking it's enough to secure them jobs. But the pirates are in deep trouble and need the newcomers' help. It?s has lots of stuff I want to read about, such as an established couple (instead of courtship romance) working together, a sibling relationship, and cool space pirates. Some of the world-building stuff was pretty vague which might irritate other people.

Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Miracles is the final book in the fantasy series. I loved this series and this is a great ending.

Steven Brust's Vallista was a lot of fun. It's the newest book in a long series. It's weird and requires quite a bit of knowledge about the world and the characters, so I don't recommend it as a starting point. But for an old fan, it was great.

Another final book in the series was Mercedes Lackey's Beauty and the Werewolf, a fantasy romance series set in the 500 Kingdoms. Perhaps weakest in the series, the male love interest doesn't have much presence in the book and Bella is a competent level-headed female lead, much like the other heroines in this series. It riff off of Red Riding Hood and werewolves.

Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles was a pleasant surprise. It tells the story of Achilles and Patroclus from Patroclus' POV. It's set in a obviously magical world were deities and magic are real.

I also really liked Martha Well's All Systems Red. The MC of the novella is a murderbot who has anxiety issues when dealing with humans. It's written in first person from the bot's POV and I was really charmed by it's voice. The bot just wants people to go away so that it can continue to watching the shows it loves.

Finally, Olympus Bound by Jordanna Brodsky was another last in a series. It was a satisfying conclusion to the series.

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