Am Reading: February 2014

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Am Reading

Started off February with a bang primarily because bad news meant I read more as a coping mechanism. After War of Honor, I slowed down because I got sick, because I distrusted the next book in the series, and because my attempts at reading my collaborator's fiction screwed with my writing, and I gave up. Then I did a little rereading to lift my rotten mood, but rereads don't count, remember?

1. Doppelganger duology by Marie Brennan - compelling, couldn't put it down
2. Flag in Exile by David Weber - layered and amazingly good
3. Honor Among Enemies by David Weber - very good, enjoyed thoroughly
4. In Enemy Hands by David Weber - reduced me to a quivery, cringing mess—in a good way. I was in no way up to reading the next book immediately and took a reprieve
5. Mindtouch by M.C.A. Hogarth - even more amazing than expected and ended on a cliffhanger! love, love, love—except the cliffhanger
6. Mindline by M.C.A. Hogarth - heartpounding, awww-inducing awesome. Love
7. Echoes of Honor by David Weber - wow, loved
8. Ashes of Victory by David Weber - oh, my heart
9. War of Honor by David Weber - There are too many characters I want to strangle right now, not least of all High Ridge and Giancola. I hate how it ended and had to go read the summary of the next book to be sure it would fix it. It will. I must sit through watching my favorite characters fight each other. Gut-wrenching.

Breaking this down by genre:

• 2 books heroic action-adventure fantasy
• 6 books military science fiction
• 2 books general science fiction*

*meaning I haven't the foggiest which subgenres the Mindhealers duology belongs to, but it was awesome and clearly SF.

By series:

• 2 entire series
• 1 continuing through a series
• 0 stand-alone novels

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Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Okay. :)

[scribblemyname]

I'm still going to come back to give more, but just bumped into this and thought you'd like how well it applies: http://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/is-happy-for-now-happy-enough-for-you/

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, that is illuminating! And a touch comforting, in the sense that it makes the genre's audience seem less monolithic in its tastes. (For instance, ACX put Even the Wingless briefly in the romance category. Before I had them take it out, it got one stranger reviewing it who seemed to get it. Narrator and I were guessing that person bought it out of the romance 'bin', which made me wonder if I should tell ACX to put it back in the romance section? But I really, really don't think of Wingless as a romance...!)

[scribblemyname]

I think so many genres get painted as monoliths. In fact, so many things get painted as monoliths; every category gets its stereotypes and they are all right and all wrong. :le sigh: I've been bumping into some of that around the reading/writing web. It makes me want to bury my head in fiction but I promised to write about tapping into fandom and to cohere my ideas on how appealing my new favorite duology is and to whom...

So I'll get off the monolith soapbox before I get too far out there and write something productive. :grins: