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Tak!

Tak@reading.taks.garden

Joined 3 years, 4 months ago

I like to read

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Silver Nitrate (Paperback, 2023, Random House Large Print) 4 stars

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …

Silver Nitrate

4 stars

This one takes a while to get going - after several chapters, I was convinced that this was going to be a slice-of-life novel about the glory days of the mexican movie industry as seen from the 90s. (Which it is not (I mean, it is, but there's also more))

It reminds me quite a lot of The Skeleton Key(2005), in a good way.

Good characters; fun, creepy, twisty plot; unique setting.

Daniel Abraham: Blade of Dream (2023, Orbit) 5 stars

Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody …

Blade of Dream

4 stars

Blade of Dream is a very good sequel to Age of Ash. Instead of continuing the events from the previous book, it tells the story of different characters during the same time period. There are only a few points where events overlap, so it doesn't give that "ugh, I'm just reading a different flavor of the same story again" feeling that you can get from this approach.

I found it especially interesting that one of the main characters in Blade of Dream was a very marginal character in Age of Ash that one of the narrative characters had dismissed as a silly girl with no real agency (and thus the reader implicitly seeing her that way as well), and seeing the stark contrast here.