I've been hearing lots of good things about both Library At Mount Char and Senlin Ascends - I might have to give those both a try at some point.
I hope you have a kindle for Library At Mount Char, because in the UK at least, it was never published as a paperback. It is, however a pure joy romp, so go for it, in any shape or form you can get it.
I don't know what's doing here, but I've been getting a stream of crap books.
First,
Longbourn was doing fantastic and then had the weakest plot turn ever, with a totally unrealistic and disappointing ending.
Then Hobb gave me anxiety with her depressing Ships of Magic had decided to DNF. Then picked up
Eragon and dropped it like a hot potato as soon as it was clear it sported the blandest MC I'd beholden in a while, besides being a copy-pasta of Lotr...
And now 56% in Mark Lawrence's
Red Sister, and I'm getting fed up with it! It's my first book by him. I'm not a fan of his prose. It's like it doesn't stick to me, I sometimes have to re-read passages to make sense of them and comprehend them, as if I'd read it thinking of something else. It's not very enjoyable, though the man definitely went at the school of punchy first lines.
But anyway, 56% in, and LAWRD almighty, but is this a gimmicky book! Let's pile it up on the MC! Let's twist logic beyond reason to make it harder and harder for her... She is hard to like besides! She is this super poor peasant chick from the back end of nowhere, and never speaks but to spit threats, until all of a sudden she has long passages where she waxes lyrical, turning into an over-educated Keats. These felt so unrealistic I was tempted to skim them to keep the author from entirely putting me off.
YAWN!
Nothing is good any more!
