Reading When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.
I am still in the start, but the premise is hilarious. Looking forward to how everything unfolds.
What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I’m absolutely entranced by Robin Hobb. After reading the Farseer trilogy I just started the Liveship Traders trilogy and I’m already fully committed.
In between I tried one of her works as Megan Lindholm: Wizard of the Pigeons. A dive into the mind of a homeless person in Seattle. Somehow it’s categorized as “urban fantasy” but I don’t see it in the fantasy genre at all. Unless you’d count Kafka as fantasy. Not the best comparison but the only one I can think of right now.
Goodness, I just finished one of her books. Fools Assassin. Somehow I had missed it when it came out about a decade ago.
Enjoy the live ship books!
Thanks, I am. Almost living in it rn.
Fool’s Assassin sounds like elements taken from the Farseer trilogy. I think I read somewhere she returned to that later. Still as good?
Yes, it continues the Farseer storyline many years later. I really enjoyed it. It starts a little slowly (one of those where setting the stage takes a significant part of the book), but it brings back some beloved old characters and shows the progress of time. Very worthwhile IMO. I love Robin Hobb’s writing!
Yeah so do I.
The Farseer trilogy books seemed to be a bit more standalone, the Liveship Traders almost one book: I just started the 2nd book and the end of the 1st was hardly more than a chapter ending.
Have you also read some of her earlier Megan Lindholm stuff?
You’re so lucky. Liveship Traders is a real adjustment from the Fitz books. Enjoy them, great stories ahead.
Thanks.
Thing is I’d never even heard of that author until someone mentioned her in one of these posts here. I wonder how many more gems in ugly last century fantasy covers there are…