Recent reading
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luzulaTiger's Daughter by Arsenault K. Rivera (2017)
For my fannish book club. I expected to enjoy this based on the elements of the story, but I did not. I didn't even finish it. /o\ The style just did not work for me--there was so much over the top melodrama that I kept rolling my eyes.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2018)
This, on the other hand, I really enjoyed! It was a compelling read that was hard to put down. There's one thing about the ending I wanted to talk about, though. The book has two marriages that neither husband nor wife actually wanted to enter into. Despite that, both of them are presented as happily ever after at the end. I do buy Miryem/the Staryk king, it feels like the book earned that one. But Mirnatius suddenly being starry-eyed at Irina? I don't buy that. Seems like he'd be overjoyed to be free of the demon, sure, and be grateful to Irina for that, but it doesn't follow that he'd suddenly be in love with her given his earlier thoughts about her. Maybe the book is intended to be closer to the romance-novel genre than I was reading it as? But it annoyed me a bit - I don't see why the book should be invested in making forced marriages work, anyway.
For my fannish book club. I expected to enjoy this based on the elements of the story, but I did not. I didn't even finish it. /o\ The style just did not work for me--there was so much over the top melodrama that I kept rolling my eyes.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2018)
This, on the other hand, I really enjoyed! It was a compelling read that was hard to put down. There's one thing about the ending I wanted to talk about, though. The book has two marriages that neither husband nor wife actually wanted to enter into. Despite that, both of them are presented as happily ever after at the end. I do buy Miryem/the Staryk king, it feels like the book earned that one. But Mirnatius suddenly being starry-eyed at Irina? I don't buy that. Seems like he'd be overjoyed to be free of the demon, sure, and be grateful to Irina for that, but it doesn't follow that he'd suddenly be in love with her given his earlier thoughts about her. Maybe the book is intended to be closer to the romance-novel genre than I was reading it as? But it annoyed me a bit - I don't see why the book should be invested in making forced marriages work, anyway.
