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Book reviews
Aug. 17th, 2014 02:25 pmI continue to keep busy with work + costuming efforts at home, so here's the belated quick reviews of what I've read since last month.
Shaded Vision by Yasmine Galenorn
The series continues. This one was focussed on the were-sister and was generally pretty pleasant to read... it's fading rapidly, but I do remember thinking that the core of this one was a commentary on hate crimes. It wasn't subtle at all.
Defending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. Sheehy
I didn't read all of this one, just the one chapter about a local case. Beyond the details of the case, it also talked a fair bit about the very negative portrayal in media and the aggressive tone of the police and prosecution. An unsettling read.
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
This was a well written fantasy novel with the most god damned inconsistent and illogical magic system I've ever read. It was like the magic system was made up by an 8 year old and then the book was written by an adult. Perhaps that's really how it was. Anyway, it was a good enough read, but I found it really off-putting when near the end one of the characters started expounding on the magic system as if it was scientific and well-studied and made any damn sense.
Also, calling it "BioChroma" when nothing else is inner-capped like that made me think it was a brand name every time it came up.
Cinder by Melissa Meyer
So good!
Seriously, I know a lot of the time when I write about things I'm pretty down on the flaws, but I really liked this one. It's a young adult novel that's a sci-fi Cinderella story - the Cinderella character is a cyborg and mechanic, and she is clever and interesting, as are the other characters. I'm very much looking forward to picking up the next in the series... although it stands alone okay, it doesn't have a happily-ever-after ending and the sci-fi intrigue looks to be excellent.
Shaded Vision by Yasmine Galenorn
The series continues. This one was focussed on the were-sister and was generally pretty pleasant to read... it's fading rapidly, but I do remember thinking that the core of this one was a commentary on hate crimes. It wasn't subtle at all.
Defending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. Sheehy
I didn't read all of this one, just the one chapter about a local case. Beyond the details of the case, it also talked a fair bit about the very negative portrayal in media and the aggressive tone of the police and prosecution. An unsettling read.
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
This was a well written fantasy novel with the most god damned inconsistent and illogical magic system I've ever read. It was like the magic system was made up by an 8 year old and then the book was written by an adult. Perhaps that's really how it was. Anyway, it was a good enough read, but I found it really off-putting when near the end one of the characters started expounding on the magic system as if it was scientific and well-studied and made any damn sense.
Also, calling it "BioChroma" when nothing else is inner-capped like that made me think it was a brand name every time it came up.
Cinder by Melissa Meyer
So good!
Seriously, I know a lot of the time when I write about things I'm pretty down on the flaws, but I really liked this one. It's a young adult novel that's a sci-fi Cinderella story - the Cinderella character is a cyborg and mechanic, and she is clever and interesting, as are the other characters. I'm very much looking forward to picking up the next in the series... although it stands alone okay, it doesn't have a happily-ever-after ending and the sci-fi intrigue looks to be excellent.
Steelheart is the first (and currently only) novel of a series - there's also a ebook-only short story, but the next novel isn't supposed to come out 'til the fall. The book's setting is a post-apocalyptic Chicago - basically, think X-men without the X-men to oppose Magneto's Brotherhood. So, there are Epics with superpowers, but they're all monsters and consider themselves the highest order of human.
