What are you currently reading?

[Elfy]

Finally got to some of the recommendations from people here.

Firstly, read Swordspoint on the recommendation of @cupiscent and absolutely loved it. Only took me a few days (and a good chunk of a flight) to get through. Totally recommend it; it has a great mystery running through it, as well as fast paced action along with a sweet slice of romance.

Currently just over halfway through A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, suggested by @J.R. Darewood and it is incredible! This is a book I feel I've been looking for for a long time. It needs to be a TV series, or a movie at least. I think the world is ready for it 

There's a sequel to A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, it's called The Ladies Guide to Petticoats and Piracy. Tremontaine is a series of short works, a couple written by Ellen Kushner herself, in and around the world Swordspoint was set in.

[xiagan]

Am on a business trip and forgot Foundryside. So I bought King of Ashes, the first in Raymond E. Feist's new saga.
Am curious how I'll like it, I loved his earlier books but haven't read the last 2-4 of his Midkemia saga(s) because it got a bit too wild.

[cupiscent]

Firstly, read Swordspoint on the recommendation of @cupiscent and absolutely loved it. Only took me a few days (and a good chunk of a flight) to get through. Totally recommend it; it has a great mystery running through it, as well as fast paced action along with a sweet slice of romance.

Currently just over halfway through A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, suggested by @J.R. Darewood and it is incredible! This is a book I feel I've been looking for for a long time. It needs to be a TV series, or a movie at least. I think the world is ready for it 

Yay! And I love Gentleman's Guide as well, so I'm absolutely thrilled to hear all of this. A TV series of it would be such a delight, I am On Board!

[Bender]

Now I'm getting interested in the Gentleman thingy book. Will give it a whirl after giving feedback on Eyria.

[Jake Baelish]

Finally got to some of the recommendations from people here.

Firstly, read Swordspoint on the recommendation of @cupiscent and absolutely loved it. Only took me a few days (and a good chunk of a flight) to get through. Totally recommend it; it has a great mystery running through it, as well as fast paced action along with a sweet slice of romance.

Currently just over halfway through A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, suggested by @J.R. Darewood and it is incredible! This is a book I feel I've been looking for for a long time. It needs to be a TV series, or a movie at least. I think the world is ready for it 

There's a sequel to A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, it's called The Ladies Guide to Petticoats and Piracy. Tremontaine is a series of short works, a couple written by Ellen Kushner herself, in and around the world Swordspoint was set in.

I finished GG today, flew through to the end 

Ladies Guide is definitely on the list TBR soon (And I'll be picking up a Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky, a novella following up on AGGTVAV, as soon as it's out this Autumn!) 

Will also look into the Tremotaine books too, thanks!

[xiagan]

Those books sound a bit like Gail Carriger's books (Etiquette and Espionage, etc.) are they similarly funny? I think @Elfy read those too and Cupi maybe too?

[Elfy]

Those books sound a bit like Gail Carriger's books (Etiquette and Espionage, etc.) are they similarly funny? I think @Elfy read those too and Cupi maybe too?

I haven’t read the Mackenzi Lee’s, @Lejays17 has, from what she told me I don’t think they have a lot in common with Gail’s books apart from the alliterative titles.

[cupiscent]

Those books sound a bit like Gail Carriger's books (Etiquette and Espionage, etc.) are they similarly funny? I think @Elfy read those too and Cupi maybe too?

Both Carriger and Lee have a similar sort of rompy historical fun approach, but Lee has a more serious character introspection vibe (her characters are Dealing With Their Shit), whereas the Carriger is more frothy hijinks.

[Skip]

Currently reading Medieval Maritime Warfare which is about as dull as you are picturing it, but which at least gave me some background on a pirate with the great name of Henry the Fisherman. I'm headed out on a big trip and have Tchaikovsky's Children of Time on tap, along with the next installment of The Expanse. I'm also about halfway through another O'Brian work, The Reverse of the Medal.

[xiagan]

Thanks, both of you!

Halfway through King of Ashes and I'm enjoying it. It feels darker but thinking back at Midkemia/Serpent war/... it probably isn't, maybe he just changed his tone.

[Bender]

Midkemia started and ended well imo. The books in between we're kind of meh.

[ScarletBea]

I finished book 2, The bear and the serpent, and I've now started book 3, The hyena and the hawk.
This is really a great trilogy, and I can't wait to know the rest of the plot!

[Nighteyes]

I finished book 2, The bear and the serpent, and I've now started book 3, The hyena and the hawk.
This is really a great trilogy, and I can't wait to know the rest of the plot!

You've still got The Meerkat and the Giraffe to read.

The Black Prince by Adam Roberts.

[Peat]

Everything is better than Meerkats.

Thanks, both of you!

Halfway through King of Ashes and I'm enjoying it. It feels darker but thinking back at Midkemia/Serpent war/... it probably isn't, maybe he just changed his tone.

I haven't read King of Ashes yet - considered getting it while its cheap on kindle and just feeling a little burnt by how lackadaisical the end of Midkemia was - but I think this could be a bit of both. Yes, Feist had some messed up stuff in the Midkemia cycle that was disguised by a light tone and a lot of barely on camera stuff, but there's not all that much of it. And most of it is in Shadow of a Demon Queen. Most of his dark stuff is traumatic relationships and tbh, I'd love to get a time line of his divorce and his writing-

Hmm. Right, going from Google, Feist divorced in 2000.

Prior to that, the most toxic romantic relationships in Midkemia were all about Roo Avery, the phenomenally greedy workaholic with ego issues who married for money... but that still ended with him being happy with his wife. William had some not-at-all-plot-motivational heartache in those bloody video game boks.

After this... I don't think there's one straight forwards happy romantic relationship introduced until right in the end he goes for the fairytale romances of the Crydee sons as he brings the cycle full close. And he retcons one of the ones he had. Oh no, tell a lie, Caleb has one.

I'm just speculating but it seems to fit that his view of the world changed.

[ScarletBea]

I finished book 2, The bear and the serpent, and I've now started book 3, The hyena and the hawk.
This is really a great trilogy, and I can't wait to know the rest of the plot!

You've still got The Meerkat and the Giraffe to read.

For a second there, I wondered if there were actually 4 books in the series