Library Hold Challenge #2: “Roses and Rot” Kat Howard. This wound up on my list due to Locus reviews, I’m
sure. It’s a Tam Lin story! I quite liked it. Good books make me think about
the stories that are wheeling around in my head, and what I can do with them.
This one did that. Feels like there’s another writer accomplishment I’ll never
have: thanking Neil Gaiman for reading my crappy draft.
LHC #3: “The Archived” by Victoria Schwab. The YA version of VE Schwab with whom I’m somewhat
in love.
“The Killing Moon” by N.K.Jemisin. I found it on the floor in the boy’s room, and it
looked good. He wants to do a D&D campaign that uses some elements of the
Inheritance Trilogy (which I should start again because I only read book 1, and
that was probably the year it came out). It was surprisingly readable. One of
the main characters is really prejudiced against some of the others, and that
was written really well. She’s a sympathetic character, but she’s got this huge
blind spot. So well done.
“The Shadowed Sun” by N.K. Jemisin. These were bound together in one volume so finishing
seemed like the logical thing to do. So often it seems like a series tells the
same story over and over. This book did not. It dealt with the repercussions of
what had happened in the first book, with some of the same characters, but they
were more in the background. The worldbuilding is so rich and the characters so
complex.