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What did you recently finish reading?
I was so disappointed by season 5 of The Expanse that I went and read the seventh and eighth books, and adored them so much that I was inspired to reread Leviathan Wakes. And man, that was not a good book. I don't understand how it got a sequel, let alone a pile of awards and an acclaimed adaptation, but I have to respect James S. A. Corey's glow-up.
More recently: The Secrets We Keep, a contemporary middle grade by Nova Weetman. The heroine starts rebuilding her life following the destruction of her home and the loss of her mother in a house fire. Only she may have exaggerrated when she told her new friend that her mother is dead.
I saw the twist coming a mile away, but then, I'm considerably older than the target audience, and half the pleasure of Weetman's work is watching her put the story together. She has a knack for finding the right balance between angst and joy.
What are you currently reading?
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix. This is going to be someone's favourite book. It's very, very good, but doesn't quite click for me for reasons that are more about my own pedantry than anything else. I'm going to finish it, though, because I want to see how it ends, and I'm enjoying how much it feels like a Rivers of London AU where the Folly has a retail arm.
(The heroine's love interest is genderfluid with a vast wardrobe of couture suits and dresses, an equally impressive collection of weapons, and a snarky yet loving relationship with his sister, if that's the kind of thing you're into.)
What do you think you'll read next?
I have The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall in my Libby app -- that's an Australian SF novel which is being marketed very hard as litfic and not any type of filthy genre. So that could go either way. (Sometimes this ends in a great novel; more often in a book which clearly suffers from having had an editor who wasn't familiar with the genre.)
But I also have a growing pile of Australian middle grade and SF to read, and I think the next one I pick up will be Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim.
I was so disappointed by season 5 of The Expanse that I went and read the seventh and eighth books, and adored them so much that I was inspired to reread Leviathan Wakes. And man, that was not a good book. I don't understand how it got a sequel, let alone a pile of awards and an acclaimed adaptation, but I have to respect James S. A. Corey's glow-up.
More recently: The Secrets We Keep, a contemporary middle grade by Nova Weetman. The heroine starts rebuilding her life following the destruction of her home and the loss of her mother in a house fire. Only she may have exaggerrated when she told her new friend that her mother is dead.
I saw the twist coming a mile away, but then, I'm considerably older than the target audience, and half the pleasure of Weetman's work is watching her put the story together. She has a knack for finding the right balance between angst and joy.
What are you currently reading?
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix. This is going to be someone's favourite book. It's very, very good, but doesn't quite click for me for reasons that are more about my own pedantry than anything else. I'm going to finish it, though, because I want to see how it ends, and I'm enjoying how much it feels like a Rivers of London AU where the Folly has a retail arm.
(The heroine's love interest is genderfluid with a vast wardrobe of couture suits and dresses, an equally impressive collection of weapons, and a snarky yet loving relationship with his sister, if that's the kind of thing you're into.)
What do you think you'll read next?
I have The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall in my Libby app -- that's an Australian SF novel which is being marketed very hard as litfic and not any type of filthy genre. So that could go either way. (Sometimes this ends in a great novel; more often in a book which clearly suffers from having had an editor who wasn't familiar with the genre.)
But I also have a growing pile of Australian middle grade and SF to read, and I think the next one I pick up will be Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim.
