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Northlight by Deborah Wheeler. LibraryThing Early Reviewers. An emotionally repressed and terribly cool Ranger from the North makes her way inland to find someone to help her rescue her partner from an ongoing border war. She forms an unlikely alliance with an idealistic young scholar as secrets unfold around them. Has a lot going for it, creative, interesting, good characters. I appreciate a good post apocalypse story and really enjoy a story with complex female characters (of different ages even!). I wanted a more complex plot but would definitely read more of her work.
Dark Horse by Kate Sherwood. Boy from Wrong Side of the Tracks making Good through love of a Good Man and Horses Loses Boy but Finds other Boy(s) - what’s not to love. Quite nuanced queer poly relationship accidentally developing between people who are not philosophically poly. What actually won my heart was the way Sherwood wrote the emotional process of dealing with grief and past relationships, her characters felt very real.
Agatha H. and the Airship City (Girl Genius) by Phil Foglio. Novel of first Vol of the webcomic - I loved it! I found it a lot easier to absorb the rich details that are present in the webcomic when it was presented in text form and it was like a second voyage of discovery appreciating just how much there is to see in the webcomic.
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, turns out I’ve read it before which is a little bit of a shame because people have been nudging it at me promising great things and while I enjoyed it, it wouldn’t make my re-read list (except how it sort of stealthily did). Also I liked it far more this time which may simply be not having the flu. In a city where Swordsmen fight Lord's honour battles for them, a rising star and his nihilistic lover are drawn into political machinations. Rich, complex world building and characterisation. I loved how many different plot lines were interwoven and really appreciated the queer characters. I wish the characters were more likeable, this has enough going on that it has strong re-readability but I'm not invested enough in anyone to want to follow their story.
The Shattered City by Tansy Rayner Roberts. Creature Court (2). Satisfying follow on, I look forward to book 3. This kept up the pace and expanded further on the setup in Power and Majesty. Yay!
Dark Horse by Kate Sherwood. Boy from Wrong Side of the Tracks making Good through love of a Good Man and Horses Loses Boy but Finds other Boy(s) - what’s not to love. Quite nuanced queer poly relationship accidentally developing between people who are not philosophically poly. What actually won my heart was the way Sherwood wrote the emotional process of dealing with grief and past relationships, her characters felt very real.
Agatha H. and the Airship City (Girl Genius) by Phil Foglio. Novel of first Vol of the webcomic - I loved it! I found it a lot easier to absorb the rich details that are present in the webcomic when it was presented in text form and it was like a second voyage of discovery appreciating just how much there is to see in the webcomic.
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, turns out I’ve read it before which is a little bit of a shame because people have been nudging it at me promising great things and while I enjoyed it, it wouldn’t make my re-read list (except how it sort of stealthily did). Also I liked it far more this time which may simply be not having the flu. In a city where Swordsmen fight Lord's honour battles for them, a rising star and his nihilistic lover are drawn into political machinations. Rich, complex world building and characterisation. I loved how many different plot lines were interwoven and really appreciated the queer characters. I wish the characters were more likeable, this has enough going on that it has strong re-readability but I'm not invested enough in anyone to want to follow their story.
The Shattered City by Tansy Rayner Roberts. Creature Court (2). Satisfying follow on, I look forward to book 3. This kept up the pace and expanded further on the setup in Power and Majesty. Yay!
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