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Mervi2012
Posted 2018-08-03 7:42 AM (#17166 - in reply to #16634)
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I've also been having trouble loggin into this site. Meanwhile, I've read a lot and even increased my goal to 40 books. I've also in Mount TBR challenge.

Katharine Neville's the Eight was unfortunately not to my taste. I enjoyed the structure where the story is divided between two timelines: in in 1970s which starts at New York but spreads all over the globe and the other in 1790, during the French Revolution. Lots of different POV characters but not enough mystery for me. I ended up enjoying the historical chapters far more.

Juliet Marillier's Dreamer's Pool was another very hefty tome. I listened it as an audiobook which has three different narrators, one for each POV character, and ended up loving the book. It's a fantasy story with two escaped convicts (well, one of them makes a deal with a faery to get out) and a gentle prince with a mystery.

I also listened Lois McMaster Bujold's two novellas 'Prisoner of Limnos' and 'Penric and the Fox' and enjoyed both of them. Prisoner is continuation to 'Mira's Last Dance' while 'Penric and the Fox' is a stand-alone and sort of sequel to 'Penric and the Shaman' (same characters appear).

Tanya Huff's Fire's Stone is a fantasy story with three POV characters: Aaron is a thief who carries a lot of guilt from his past and from his dad, Darvish is a third prince and therefore a drunken fool, and Chandra is a wizard who is estranged from her father. The trio must get back a very valuable jewel. Light and fun fantasy.

I continue to enjoy Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's war series. I've now listened the second and the third books and I've already gotten the last two.

Finally, Tracey Townsend's the Nine is an impressive fantasy debut. It deals with religion on various levels which isn't often done in fantasy. I liked most of the characters but unfortunately the final pages revealed something about them which took away quite a lot of my enjoyment. Still, a nice read and can be read as a stand-alone.

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