Recent reading
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luzulaConstellation Games by Leonard Richardson
This is about a geeky guy who gets to play and review alien video games. Also there's a whole story about aliens coming to Earth and all, but clearly the alien video game thing is the pay-off. I thought it was fun--this is obviously written by a geek given free rein. I didn't quite connect with the character voice, though.
Cirkeln [The Circle] by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren (audiobook)
Popular YA urban fantasy from Sweden. Someone told me this was like Buffy set in small-town Sweden, which seems accurate as far as I can tell (having never actually seen Buffy). It has a team of high-school-aged characters (most of them women) fighting evil. I enjoyed it well enough, but I'm not sure I'll listen to the sequels.
The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham (#4 in the Long Price Quartet)
Oooh, this is good. I really like how actions have consequences in this series, and how things play out over the whole course of the characters' lives. I admire the plotting in this series! Also how good people can do things that are a really bad idea, and that those things can also have very positive aspects. And the worldbuilding is really good--for example, the main culture has a formalized body language of poses that is used to convey added meaning to speech. I highly recommend the whole series!
This is about a geeky guy who gets to play and review alien video games. Also there's a whole story about aliens coming to Earth and all, but clearly the alien video game thing is the pay-off. I thought it was fun--this is obviously written by a geek given free rein. I didn't quite connect with the character voice, though.
Cirkeln [The Circle] by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren (audiobook)
Popular YA urban fantasy from Sweden. Someone told me this was like Buffy set in small-town Sweden, which seems accurate as far as I can tell (having never actually seen Buffy). It has a team of high-school-aged characters (most of them women) fighting evil. I enjoyed it well enough, but I'm not sure I'll listen to the sequels.
The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham (#4 in the Long Price Quartet)
Oooh, this is good. I really like how actions have consequences in this series, and how things play out over the whole course of the characters' lives. I admire the plotting in this series! Also how good people can do things that are a really bad idea, and that those things can also have very positive aspects. And the worldbuilding is really good--for example, the main culture has a formalized body language of poses that is used to convey added meaning to speech. I highly recommend the whole series!
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Date: 2015-07-26 01:37 am (UTC)I recently read The Circle! I liked all the different girls, and the shifts in reader sympathy as you learn more about the girls, and they make decisions of varying levels of morality. Probably not a classic for the ages, but solid. I bought the sequel.
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Date: 2015-07-26 11:59 am (UTC)Oh, I didn't know it was translated into English! I do want to know if Vanessa and Linnea will get together--I feel like it's pretty heavily foreshadowed that they will.