Recent reading
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luzulaShaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
This is not science fiction, but rather a historical novel about people during the end of the last Ice Age. And yet it feels like a logical next step for KSR--I've always loved his nature descriptions, and Mars is a cold and sparsely populated place where people are dependent on technology, just like paleolithic Earth was. Probably some people would find this book boring, because it's a bit slow-moving and rich in description in parts, but I really liked it. And there is some tense action, you just have to wait a bit for it. Recommended!
Eld [Fire] by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren (audiobook, #2 in the Engelsfors trilogy)
YA fantasy; I reviewed #1 here. Okay, yeah, the second part is really hooking me! It's got a large (mostly female) cast of characters which it built up in the first book, and that's paying off now. I like the descriptions of high school in small-town Sweden. It's got a TV-series feel to it, in that the story putters along jumping between POV:s and giving us new little episodes of drama, though there is an overarching story, and I'm enjoying the character development. There's some great emotional payoff with people becoming friends even though they're pretty different. Also please to resolve that f/f romantic tension and let them have a happy ending in the last book... These books are translated into English, if you want to give them a try.
I also started the Kate Elliot book Passage of Stars (#1 in the Highroad trilogy). I feel like everybody is reading Kate Elliot, and I never have. This book opens with a privileged teenage girl who is super-skilled at martial arts, rebelling against her parents. Meh, not in the mood for it--maybe I should try another one. Are all her books YA?
This is not science fiction, but rather a historical novel about people during the end of the last Ice Age. And yet it feels like a logical next step for KSR--I've always loved his nature descriptions, and Mars is a cold and sparsely populated place where people are dependent on technology, just like paleolithic Earth was. Probably some people would find this book boring, because it's a bit slow-moving and rich in description in parts, but I really liked it. And there is some tense action, you just have to wait a bit for it. Recommended!
Eld [Fire] by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren (audiobook, #2 in the Engelsfors trilogy)
YA fantasy; I reviewed #1 here. Okay, yeah, the second part is really hooking me! It's got a large (mostly female) cast of characters which it built up in the first book, and that's paying off now. I like the descriptions of high school in small-town Sweden. It's got a TV-series feel to it, in that the story putters along jumping between POV:s and giving us new little episodes of drama, though there is an overarching story, and I'm enjoying the character development. There's some great emotional payoff with people becoming friends even though they're pretty different. Also please to resolve that f/f romantic tension and let them have a happy ending in the last book... These books are translated into English, if you want to give them a try.
I also started the Kate Elliot book Passage of Stars (#1 in the Highroad trilogy). I feel like everybody is reading Kate Elliot, and I never have. This book opens with a privileged teenage girl who is super-skilled at martial arts, rebelling against her parents. Meh, not in the mood for it--maybe I should try another one. Are all her books YA?
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