Calculated Risks
May. 11th, 2021 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethFinished reading a second Seanan McGuire book in a row. It was good reading. I like the story, but I wouldnt want pretty much anything that happens in it to have happened to characters we care about, so, yikes. Also I have opinions about the end (spoilers) : the opinion is ow. Like, Sarah basically had to restore her cousin from backup, but since people do not usually have a backup, he is now made from the memories of the people who care about him? But, like, ow. How much did he lose? Because this does not feel like a book where the answer is a comfortable nothing. It keeps on saying things about mistakes and things you can't take back. So you can read the last page as a happy ending, but...
well. it is a series. we'll probably get to see.
I love how these books say people are people, diverse and different people, with different and frequently conflicting needs, so team good guy are the ones who stop killing people.
It introduces a lot of speed bumps and think agains and manages some epic fight scenes, but the stories are seriously making an argument for getting along.
It's refreshing.
... I read too many rpg rulebooks, and after a while it's waaaaay too easy to see a bestiary and a lot of hit points, but here, characters.
I also like how this book as a first chapter setup is all 'what if university campus gets dumped onto another world', for I too have spent time staring out a library window wondering that.
UEA has a hive right on campus tho.
Also, ziggurats.
well. it is a series. we'll probably get to see.
I love how these books say people are people, diverse and different people, with different and frequently conflicting needs, so team good guy are the ones who stop killing people.
It introduces a lot of speed bumps and think agains and manages some epic fight scenes, but the stories are seriously making an argument for getting along.
It's refreshing.
... I read too many rpg rulebooks, and after a while it's waaaaay too easy to see a bestiary and a lot of hit points, but here, characters.
I also like how this book as a first chapter setup is all 'what if university campus gets dumped onto another world', for I too have spent time staring out a library window wondering that.
UEA has a hive right on campus tho.
Also, ziggurats.