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Finished reading Gideon the Ninth.
This book deeply appeals to my inner teenage goth. Necromancy! Dark ambiance! Skull face paint! A snarky, lovable, sword-weilding protagonist!
As a character, Gideon appeals to me on so many levels. Her POV is just so fun - I love the terrible puns, her casual way of speaking, her sunglasses, the very enthusiastic way that she's totally into women. I just love everything about her. Delightful dorky sword butch. <3
(While we're on the subject of characters that I like, I also adored the duo of the Sixth house. Initially, Palamedes and Camilla seemed like odd authorial name choices for a pair of nerds, and I wondered if the references were deliberate. I was delighted to realize that they were perfect names for these particular nerds.)
This book was sold to me as "lesbian necromancers in space". Well, there is some f/f, but only one half of the pair is a necromancer, and they don't spend much time actually in space, though the entire novel does take place in a planetary system other than our own. Also, people neglected to mention (until Kiraly did, after I started reading) that this novel has mystery elements! I wouldn't call it a whodunit, but there are mysteries to be solved and Things that one needs to get to the bottom of, so to speak. ...This is an important element that I really should have known beforehand, considering the rate at which I devour mystery novels.
While reading it, I was a constant state of :D :D :D right up until... nearly the end, honestly, when it turned D: extremely quickly. For a while there I was thinking "Damn, I'm going to have to borrow the second novel immediately" but now that I've actually finished the first, uh, I think I can wait a while before I read Harrow the Ninth actually.
( Spoilery blather )
I can foresee myself looking for fic in the near future (or at least, stuff written before the second book came out, anyway - I'm going to wait, but I don't want to spoil myself for it either). Worldbuilding and fix-its, oh my! Got any recs, flist?
This book deeply appeals to my inner teenage goth. Necromancy! Dark ambiance! Skull face paint! A snarky, lovable, sword-weilding protagonist!
As a character, Gideon appeals to me on so many levels. Her POV is just so fun - I love the terrible puns, her casual way of speaking, her sunglasses, the very enthusiastic way that she's totally into women. I just love everything about her. Delightful dorky sword butch. <3
(While we're on the subject of characters that I like, I also adored the duo of the Sixth house. Initially, Palamedes and Camilla seemed like odd authorial name choices for a pair of nerds, and I wondered if the references were deliberate. I was delighted to realize that they were perfect names for these particular nerds.)
This book was sold to me as "lesbian necromancers in space". Well, there is some f/f, but only one half of the pair is a necromancer, and they don't spend much time actually in space, though the entire novel does take place in a planetary system other than our own. Also, people neglected to mention (until Kiraly did, after I started reading) that this novel has mystery elements! I wouldn't call it a whodunit, but there are mysteries to be solved and Things that one needs to get to the bottom of, so to speak. ...This is an important element that I really should have known beforehand, considering the rate at which I devour mystery novels.
While reading it, I was a constant state of :D :D :D right up until... nearly the end, honestly, when it turned D: extremely quickly. For a while there I was thinking "Damn, I'm going to have to borrow the second novel immediately" but now that I've actually finished the first, uh, I think I can wait a while before I read Harrow the Ninth actually.
( Spoilery blather )
I can foresee myself looking for fic in the near future (or at least, stuff written before the second book came out, anyway - I'm going to wait, but I don't want to spoil myself for it either). Worldbuilding and fix-its, oh my! Got any recs, flist?
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.