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Mervi2012
Posted 2020-07-28 2:02 PM (#22277 - in reply to #21614)
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Hello! I hope everyone is keeping safe and healthy!

Too bad you didn't enjoy the rest of the Temeraire books, dustydigger. I've read the whole series and mostly enjoyed them. They're pretty different from the first book, though.

I finished Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure science fantasy series. If you've read the first two, "The Dirdir" and the "Pnume" are pretty similar to them. They're quite masculine adventure books with terrible female characters. Most of the societies are interesting, though.

P. Dj?l? Clark's novella "The Haunting of Tram Car 015" is a fun alternate history story. It's set in Egypt and has djinns.

More recently, I listened the audiobooks of T. Kingfisher's "Clockwork Boys" and "the Wonder Engine" which is really one big book split in two. They're comedic fantasy, making fun of fantasy book cliches and especially roleplaying game cliches. I've roleplayed for many years so I really liked them. The group has a forger, a fallen paladin, an assassin, and a 19-year old monk. Very funny and there were only two things I didn't care for in the duology. Fortunately, they didn't ruin the books for me.

Also, I finished book five in the Expanse series, "Nemesis Games". It's different than the previous books because for once we have the POVs of all four Rocinante crew members. On the other hand, it's very dark so it'll be while before I'll continue the series.

I'm currently listening Jacquline Carey's Starless which is very interesting.

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