two book twos
Aug. 2nd, 2014 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraCold Fire, the second of the Kate Elliott Cold Magic books. I don't know, I had a hard time getting into this book and a hard time following it, the pacing and the emotional beats all seemed sort of disjointed and jarring to me. But there were some bits I liked, and I'm probably going to read the third one rather than not complete the trilogy?
Two Serpents Rise, the second of the Max Gladstone Craft books. I think I shouldn't have started this right after finishing Three Parts Dead - first I was disappointed it wasn't about the same people (it's in the same world, but different cast), then it felt a little too samey to the first one, except I didn't like any of the characters nearly as much. But it's a good formula, and there's some really good fantasy-ization of California water politics, and there were some great moments, some of which redeemed some of the earlier bits that had annoyed me, and I'm definitely reading the next one of these too.
Two Serpents Rise, the second of the Max Gladstone Craft books. I think I shouldn't have started this right after finishing Three Parts Dead - first I was disappointed it wasn't about the same people (it's in the same world, but different cast), then it felt a little too samey to the first one, except I didn't like any of the characters nearly as much. But it's a good formula, and there's some really good fantasy-ization of California water politics, and there were some great moments, some of which redeemed some of the earlier bits that had annoyed me, and I'm definitely reading the next one of these too.
