Ugh. I didn't know that shadows upon time was a book in the sun eater series, and one of the first results showed a major series spoiler on just the search page. Now I don't know if do feel like starting it at all
obviously a bit biased, but no spoiler can really impact what happens in that series. i mean, the beginning of the first book basically tells you how it ends. just my 2 cents and think it's a series that is 100% worth reading.
I'll probably still give it a shot, it's just a frustrating thing to know when starting a long series.
if it's what comes up when you search google, i'll be honest, that doesn't really give anything away that you don't already find out in Empire of Silence. the whole series is being told by the MC after the events that take place within the 7 books.
finished The Trials of Empire, which wraps up the Empire of the Wolf trilogy. It felt like two different books, and I wasn't exactly sure how it was going to end. However I think it was wrapped up rather nicely. I still think the first book is my favorite but overall definitely pleased with the trilogy. I need to read Grave Empire next.
I finished the Fifth Season trilogy from NK Jemisin yesterday. I gave it around a 3 overall. The 2nd book was my favorite. I wish I liked it more. Hoping the next trilogy will hit better for me.
I was legit shocked this swept the Hugos for all three books after I read it. You’re maybe the first person I’ve ever seen who feels the same way I do about it.
I found “The City We…” duology to be fascinating world building, but I also, for lack of a better way to put it, feel like the author just really hates me as a white male. and like. Valid. A lot of white males historically suck ass. But it almost read at multiple times like as a whole we were unredeemable.
You know, this puts words to something I didn't really have them for - I haven't read any Jemisin, and while I don't have any reason to doubt that she's a master of her craft (lots of people like her work, including lots of authors I respect), I really don't have any interest in reading them myself. Like six or seven years ago I came across some of her social media stuff that really rubbed me the wrong way, and I couldn't put my finger on exactly why, but I think it boils down to what you've said here. Like I think her worldview is cynically antagonistic to something about who I am. And, same as you said: valid, haha. And I'm not saying she shouldn't write, or that anyone's wrong for liking her. Who knows, maybe I'll eventually read her books and love them. But there is something about the whole vibe that just doesn't feel like it's my thing.
I’ve been in a reading funk. Started sun eater but stopped because I didn’t want to be in the middle of it when parade of horribles came out so picked up chain gang all stars but it’s not capturing me like I thought it would. Just gonna twiddle my thumbs until May.
the Narratess Sale is live! For those of you unfamiliar, it's a MASSIVE ebook sale of 280ish different indie authors. My book is on there for 1.99 but there are so many good choices there: Narratess Indie April Sale
Pawns of Havoc by Dave Lawson Whispers of the Storm by Z.B. Steele The Last Ranger by J.D.L. Rosell That Which Follows You Home by Josiah Blizzard Morvelving by C.J. Switzer Copper Skin, Oaken Lungs by Adam Bassett Are all titles I'll recommend
David Hopkins’s The Dryad’s Crown is one of my personal favorite books. I’d recommend that for sure to anyone here. Delilah Waan’s Petition gets a ton of love, though I haven’t read it yet. Likewise James Lloyd Dulin’s No Heart For A Thief, LL Stephens’s Sordaneon, Timothy Wolff’s Platinum Tinted Darkness, Brendan Noble’s The Crimson Court.