Reading Wednesday

[yuuago]

Finished reading: Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey. Delicious and sparkly cheese. Amazing? Nah. But it's pretty much what I expected from a Lackey novel. I'm glad I bought the whole trilogy, because I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of it.

My only disappointment is that Savil isn't in any books outside of the trilogy (at least from what cursory googling tells me). I love her! Especially her relations with her trainees. And also with Andrel and Jaysen. She falls into that "capable older woman" category that I like so much, I guess. Man, I would be happy to read a book entirely about her. Oh, well.

Currently reading: Welcome to Night Vale by Fink & Cranor. I'm about halfway through right now. It's all right! Rather glad that I decided not to bu it, because I don't think this one would be a re-read, but I'm enjoying it. Some people have said that the hype was built up too much - I wasn't exposed to most of that, but I can see how it would be a bit disappointing if one was.

It's a very atmosphere over plot novel, which is basically what I expected. A lot like the podcast itself, though not quite. ...In fact I think that, for a 'Night Vale' book, I would've preferred something like the radio excerpts in the novel; that just aligns better with my tastes. Anyway - it's worth a read overall, but I wouldn't pay for it.

Reading next: Probably Blood Sports by Eden Robinson. IIRC, it's about sketchy people doing sketchy things, and it's set in Vancouver. And I don't remember much else about it.

Comments

[the_rck]

If I understand the hints correctly, heralds can become companions via reincarnation, and a companion with a name suspiciously close to Savil shows up and says some things that hint that it's her. I think the book was By the Sword.

[yuuago]

Hmm! I will definitely have to investigate that book, thank you. :D

[st_aurafina]

Savil is so great. I love her no bullshit attitude. I'd definitely read a series about her!

[solovei]

"In fact I think that, for a 'Night Vale' book, I would've preferred something like the radio excerpts in the novel;"

YES thank you for putting it so well. I think that's exactly what I felt about it. I mean I understand that they wanted to do something new within the same universe, and I get that feeling - it must be kind of boring always writing radio shows. But that's kind of what got me into it in the first place? It was new and it was different and it was interesting. I think the novel loses a bit of that because it has a more straightforward POV and story structure. Like, here's our protagonists, they do stuff, they resolve their conflict, the end. And yeah okay some of the episodes are also like that but because they're told to us by Cecil, who is an outside, uninvolved observer, they feel different.

[yuuago]

Yeah. What they were trying to do... just didn't work for me, alas. But I would probably pay for a book of radio scripts. :V Siiigh.

[solovei]

ACTUALLY they are publishing a two-book collection of their episode scripts, and from what I understand these aren't like the fan transcripts you get online, but like, the actual scripts that the actors get. Very intriguing.