April Reading Roundup

[unicornduke]

Read

• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar - absolutely wonderful sweet little book. Felt almost poetry like. Really nice. Library e-book
• The Orb of Cairado by Katherine Addison - mystery adventure book, enjoyed the exploration of the world of a relatively normal person. purchased e-book
• Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells - YA vibes but the protag was slightly too old for the vibes I think. Not a bad little story though, absolutely bonkers worldbuilding stuff. Library -book
• The Gentlemen and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide - absolutely wonderful romance/magical murder mystery but I didn't realize the ebook had DRM so I could only read it on the publishers website. Absolutely infuriating since it didn't work well. Purchased e-book
• The Mirador by Katherine Addison - this book series is like a trainwreck, it's so weird but I couldn't stop reading. Third in the series. Library e-book

DNF

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu - Too much physics deep dives for me. Got about halfway through and it wasn't that interesting to me. Library e-book
• Home Grown Magic by Jamie Pacton - this is so tropey romance nonsense that I didn't even get through a quarter of it. library e-book

Re-read

• The Goblin Emperor - listen. My brain is obsessed. Purchased e-book
• The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison - library audiobook - first audiobook I got through while doing farmwork, even harder to track the names while listening but oh well. Enjoyed it though.
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells - library e-book

Comments

[reedrover]

Looks like a great list! I may have to dabble in a few of these that I don’t know.

I continue to maintain that The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard is the grander, more glorious step son of a book of The Goblin Emperor.

[unicornduke]

Not up to my usual standards of reading excellence, felt like more misses, mainly because the misses were recommended by bluesky. So the re-reads were really pulling me through

I placed a hold on The Hands of the Emperor! Will give it a whirl!

[dorchadas]

The Three-Body Problem

I had a similar reaction when I read it, though I did finish it. It felt like those old sci fi books where all the characters are just mouthpieces for the author to expound on some theory or other. The Supernova Era was the same, so I think I'm done with Liu's books.

The Goblin Emperor

So good! I read it because I went to a talk by Guy Consolmagno (director of the Vatican Observatory) about living in an actual feudal monarchy and he recommended it as being a much more accurate take on pre-modern government than most fantasy books.