Books

Yesterday sleep failed so the day was Long.

I finished the book series I nearly ground to a halt on.
It was like 99% battle and fight scenes, followed by a wedding, between two characters that had been together for the whole book series already.
I was so bored.

Also the dude invented a magic system with possibilities, primarily the summoner thing where you need to be cool to your magic partners in order to level up, and then like, ignored that, and had everyone treat them like spells. Boring boring.
Also he made his magic look cool by having them forget about technology, and then made the new era look cool by having them reinvent some, specifically artillery. *big sigh*
What is magic even for dude? Really big explosions? Oh, that's the limit of your imagination?

I mean he made the Big Bad be Not Like Other (evil race he invented) by giving her feelings, but only so she could be defeated by making her really angry. And he repeatedly emphasised how young she actually was, and yet we're supposed to cheer her getting annihilated. It's gross.



Also! So many fantasy stories are into political systems where Everyone Has To Listen To Me, ie monarchy, but then the new era is heralded by some limited democracy, possibly because then the author gets to feel like a good person.

I mean science fiction is not without sin on this one, goodness knows, it's a wrong author not wrong genre problem, but it's so frustrating when the 'happy' ending of their dreams is like
what if the good old days, but slightly nearer us
but not all the way up to us because clearly nobody could manage being polite to women if they didnt have like computers and stuff.

What if making friends with all the neighbours
by recruiting them into one big army.

*shudders*


So. Yeah. Considering if I need to keep those. Not sure what the good bits were by the end. Can see how the setup was interesting but the payoff was like... no.




So after that I read
Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found Again
which was a strong story but I was really glad of the reassurance in the front of the story because that's some tough topic.
The fantasy elements fit together real well with the topics.
People were very people.
I can see why that story ends there but now I want the next story also.

So, good book.


Then I was going to read the latest Murderbot but realised I didnt remember all the details of Murderbot so I read a short story from the Tor website and then
I got the whole set from my shelf (requires some digging, Wells being on the last alphabetical shelf at the bottom, gets behind, like, anything I put on the floor in the living room)
and now I have re read the first in the series.

Still very good, but annoyingly, the casting spoiler kept interfering with my mental images, even though I super disagree with it.
Boo.

Good to read though.


Pretty good day :-)