Recent reading

[luzula]

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
I enjoyed this, but didn't love it like I did The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (which will have a sequel, btw!). This author certainly seems to have a type for the kind of pairing she is into, if one can base a pattern on two books. I can't decide if this book is very restrained or super-romantic? Probably both.

The Pride of Chanur by C J Cherryh
Oh hey, it's a fun and exciting spaceship adventure rather than a grim one; I'd forgotten she wrote books like that too. It's written from the perspective of what are basically lions in space, and then they clash with other aliens over the discovery of humans. I liked it fine, though had to suspend a fair amount of disbelief--it's the kind of SF where there is no problem about humans eating alien food or using the drugs of an alien species for the same purpose the alien did, and where an alien can quickly read human facial language.

Comments

[oneiriad]

I'm glad you liked The Pride of Chanur. :-)

[luzula]

So you've read it?

[princessofgeeks]

All the Chanur books are good. So glad you are discovering them.

[luzula]

You were the one who inspired me to read it! You mentioned it in a recent post. : )

[princessofgeeks]

*beams*

[china_shop]

I enjoyed this, but didn't love it like I did The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Me too. :-)

[luzula]

I remember that I was immediately gripped by Thaniel's POV in Watchmaker, even before he met Mori, and I was more slow to get into the new one. I do wonder where the sequel to Watchmaker will go...