intermediate parts
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psocopteraRogue Protocol, Martha Wells, Murderbot #3 of four. I still heart Murderbot and Wells' ability to write gripping action scenes. I had some reading comprehension trouble with this one and misunderstood a couple of key things, leading to some confusion, but eventually sorted it out. Still highly recommend the series and look forward to the fourth one.
The Girl In The Tower, Katherine Arden. #2 of the trilogy that started with The Bear and the Nightingale (link to my comments on it). I did not find this as gripping as the first one, which I couldn't put down; maybe it was not being in the mood for impetuous young protagonists doing rash things, or villains making rape threats, or just that this book felt less like a fairy tale remix and more like a generic fantasy (although there are certainly still some fairytale elements here). I was keen to see what would happen between the protag and her sister and was a bit disappointed but there was some interesting stuff and we're maybe now in a place for more interesting stuff in the next book? (Spoilers) Although I'm still not loving "Marya is special like Vasya so she needs to be saved from the patriarchy too but Olga isn't and that's why she can handle it". The "birth is this primal thing that undercuts the conflicts created by the patriarchy" scene was pretty powerful, though, and the whole business of Vasya saving her sister against her will is an interesting character arc that I hope Arden does more with in the next book. I do think I will read the next book, at this point, just to see where it all ends up. And there were some good sequences in this one, particularly some of the horse-riding bits, so there might be more of that and that's fun.
The Girl In The Tower, Katherine Arden. #2 of the trilogy that started with The Bear and the Nightingale (link to my comments on it). I did not find this as gripping as the first one, which I couldn't put down; maybe it was not being in the mood for impetuous young protagonists doing rash things, or villains making rape threats, or just that this book felt less like a fairy tale remix and more like a generic fantasy (although there are certainly still some fairytale elements here). I was keen to see what would happen between the protag and her sister and was a bit disappointed but there was some interesting stuff and we're maybe now in a place for more interesting stuff in the next book? (Spoilers) Although I'm still not loving "Marya is special like Vasya so she needs to be saved from the patriarchy too but Olga isn't and that's why she can handle it". The "birth is this primal thing that undercuts the conflicts created by the patriarchy" scene was pretty powerful, though, and the whole business of Vasya saving her sister against her will is an interesting character arc that I hope Arden does more with in the next book. I do think I will read the next book, at this point, just to see where it all ends up. And there were some good sequences in this one, particularly some of the horse-riding bits, so there might be more of that and that's fun.
