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Steven Brust: Teckla, Taltos, Phoenix
I'm quite enjoying this series - I like how every other novel explores an aspect of Vlad's past, twining together with the main story and making this a very nice world. I like the smart-aleck familiar and the first meeting with Morrolan and I like seeing Vlad maturing. Well, when he isn't busy being nasty and mafia-assassin-ish.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Cryoburn
A confession - this is not the most awesome Vorkosigan book. Mostly because my favorites are the ones on Barrayar, with intrigues and a huge gallery of wellknown characters, and this is Miles with a couple of friends investigating on brand-new planet. But it's good. And it had Mark and it had Mark as seen through an outsider POV, which is kind of awesome, and then of course there was the ending. *sniffles*
Jim Butcher: Dead beat, Proven guilty
T-rex! And polka! And... yeah... That is all...
Lene Kaaberbøl: Kadaverdoktoren
You know, this is the first mystery I've seen outside of House where lupus gets to be a legitimate answer, which is kind of fun. And it's got wolves and nuns and a wild child and implied bestiality and science!, so that's all good. The main character, though, she is the smart-girl-defying-girl-stereotypes sort of person, which I am finding that I don't particularly like - I mean, yes, women are as awesome as men, but in a given setting, I find myself liking the ones who live within the framework and triumph by that more than the overtly rebellious, but that's probably just a matter of taste, and wouldn't be that practical in real life. Anyway...
H.P. Lovecraft: The dream quest of unknown Kadath
Nicely creepy and fantastic. It's been years since I read any Lovecraft, I should probably dig up some more...
Mary Renault: The king must die & The bull from the sea
I like Renault's way of making Ancient Greece seem almost like a fantasy world, somewhere between myths and history. However, I don-t particularly like Theseus the character, but then, one of the cool things about Renault is how she doesn't give in to modern sensibilities when portraying the ancient world, but that also means, that someone modern might not like the people she write. Also, the whole year-king concept isn't really that awesome - but then, I've disliked that since I read Dragens Kys back in the before-days (which is a book by Josefine Ottesen, which should be awesome - last daughter of matriarchal priesthood/queen family in service of dragon god is supposed to kill the patriarchal king that has conquered country, goes undercover as boy, has conflicting emotions after meeting prince her age while in disguise, even has a scene where said prince dryhumps her while she's in disguise and thinks the improvised towel-sausage between her legs for her menstruation is her hard-on - I mean, it should have been awesome, my teenage self should have loved it, and I just remember it as boring, but there you go...)
Niels Søndergaard: Bunden af fjerde dimension
Maybe not the most original tale, and the plot is mostly predictable, but the worlds it show are great - the sheer level of details in the pictures, showing the AU Denmarks, that is worth reading this. I promise.
I'm quite enjoying this series - I like how every other novel explores an aspect of Vlad's past, twining together with the main story and making this a very nice world. I like the smart-aleck familiar and the first meeting with Morrolan and I like seeing Vlad maturing. Well, when he isn't busy being nasty and mafia-assassin-ish.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Cryoburn
A confession - this is not the most awesome Vorkosigan book. Mostly because my favorites are the ones on Barrayar, with intrigues and a huge gallery of wellknown characters, and this is Miles with a couple of friends investigating on brand-new planet. But it's good. And it had Mark and it had Mark as seen through an outsider POV, which is kind of awesome, and then of course there was the ending. *sniffles*
Jim Butcher: Dead beat, Proven guilty
T-rex! And polka! And... yeah... That is all...
Lene Kaaberbøl: Kadaverdoktoren
You know, this is the first mystery I've seen outside of House where lupus gets to be a legitimate answer, which is kind of fun. And it's got wolves and nuns and a wild child and implied bestiality and science!, so that's all good. The main character, though, she is the smart-girl-defying-girl-stereotypes sort of person, which I am finding that I don't particularly like - I mean, yes, women are as awesome as men, but in a given setting, I find myself liking the ones who live within the framework and triumph by that more than the overtly rebellious, but that's probably just a matter of taste, and wouldn't be that practical in real life. Anyway...
H.P. Lovecraft: The dream quest of unknown Kadath
Nicely creepy and fantastic. It's been years since I read any Lovecraft, I should probably dig up some more...
Mary Renault: The king must die & The bull from the sea
I like Renault's way of making Ancient Greece seem almost like a fantasy world, somewhere between myths and history. However, I don-t particularly like Theseus the character, but then, one of the cool things about Renault is how she doesn't give in to modern sensibilities when portraying the ancient world, but that also means, that someone modern might not like the people she write. Also, the whole year-king concept isn't really that awesome - but then, I've disliked that since I read Dragens Kys back in the before-days (which is a book by Josefine Ottesen, which should be awesome - last daughter of matriarchal priesthood/queen family in service of dragon god is supposed to kill the patriarchal king that has conquered country, goes undercover as boy, has conflicting emotions after meeting prince her age while in disguise, even has a scene where said prince dryhumps her while she's in disguise and thinks the improvised towel-sausage between her legs for her menstruation is her hard-on - I mean, it should have been awesome, my teenage self should have loved it, and I just remember it as boring, but there you go...)
Niels Søndergaard: Bunden af fjerde dimension
Maybe not the most original tale, and the plot is mostly predictable, but the worlds it show are great - the sheer level of details in the pictures, showing the AU Denmarks, that is worth reading this. I promise.
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