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DD strongly recommended that I read Circe by Madeline Miller, and I enjoyed it. ( Spoilers )
Next I read The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. A library connecting different alternate Earths where its librarians are sent on missions! The plot was chaotic at times but fun too. The characters were a bit rough: I found it harder to connect to Irene than I expected, maybe because I didn't really get a good sense of her history and/or she starts out as such a loner. The other characters weren't really types I usually enjoy overmuch (especially Vale at first – probably BBC Sherlock oversaturation); I was prepared to like Kai even though he wasn't subtle at all, but he forfeited his starting capital of good-will when he ( Spoiler ) There were some inconsistencies with the worldbuilding, but at least the ones about the library itself seem to be deliberate and I look forward to how it develops.
The other worldbuilding detail I'm very skeptical about is the order/chaos-dichotomy, where order=good and chaos=bad. Uhhh, that's not how it works, and anyone preaching that automatically makes me suspicious (remember the Auditors from Discworld?), and so do people who don't question it. Hopefully that'll be contested too at some point.
Next I read The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. A library connecting different alternate Earths where its librarians are sent on missions! The plot was chaotic at times but fun too. The characters were a bit rough: I found it harder to connect to Irene than I expected, maybe because I didn't really get a good sense of her history and/or she starts out as such a loner. The other characters weren't really types I usually enjoy overmuch (especially Vale at first – probably BBC Sherlock oversaturation); I was prepared to like Kai even though he wasn't subtle at all, but he forfeited his starting capital of good-will when he ( Spoiler ) There were some inconsistencies with the worldbuilding, but at least the ones about the library itself seem to be deliberate and I look forward to how it develops.
The other worldbuilding detail I'm very skeptical about is the order/chaos-dichotomy, where order=good and chaos=bad. Uhhh, that's not how it works, and anyone preaching that automatically makes me suspicious (remember the Auditors from Discworld?), and so do people who don't question it. Hopefully that'll be contested too at some point.
