I’ve finally started Rosemary and Rue, the first October Daye book. So far, fascinating world building.

  • MagpieRhymes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m halfway through Naomi Novik’s (edit - fecking autocorrect) third instalment of her Scholomance trilogy, The Golden Enclaves. So far I’m enjoying it!

  • ReedsInTheWater@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have just started on The Priory of the Orange Tree. I heard a lot of good things about, so I’m looking forward to get to immerse in it over the summer.

    • OceanSoap@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Curious as to what you think, I haven’t read it yet but my friend game me “meh” reviews.

      • Sockks@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I found I couldn’t really get into the characters sure to the amount of pov switching. It also felt like the buildup didn’t quite pay off and the bbeg was just a few words on there page.

  • AngusOReily@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I finished the last 3/4 of Words of Radiance and Edgedancer this week and am ~300 into Oathbringer. I know I’m late to the party, but I should be done with my Cosmere read through this year. I have Mistborn, Warbringer, Elantris and their associated Arcanum Unbounded novellas down, just the rest of Stormlight Archive, the White Sand Omnibus, and a few of the other AU novellas to go, plus the secret projects. When I say it like that, it feels like more than a little, but I have some free time on my hands the next few months.

    • Asa@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      How are you finding Oathbringer so far? It got a lot of flack for being slow but I loved it!

      I’ve also very much enjoyed the secrect projects (cosmere ones). Just finished SP3 which for me was on par with Tress while being a wildly different story and experience.

      • AngusOReily@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I really like it so far. I’m a bunch of chapters into part 2, and I feel like we’re getting a lot of payoffs for stuff set up forever ago in some cases. I felt like book 1 dragged more for me - you could tell what was coming for Kaladin hundreds of pages before we got payoff there - and even book 2 had some slowness for me right when part 2 started.

        Maybe it slows down later, but at the moment I’m getting detailed answers to questions that have been there since the start of book 1, which is great. I also have stayed off Coppermind for the most part for anything related to Stormlight, though. Could be what I’m finding satisfying answers and exploration of theories now was heavily discussed in the community at the time. It’s one thing to get confirmation of an individual theory about the book, but it’s another to read a few hundred pages about something the community has picked apart and already settled on the right answer to. Not saying this is what happened, just guessing based on what I know about the community and the depth of detail discussed in places like Coppermind.