Reading Wednesday
Feb. 22nd, 2023 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoI've been sick as a dog since Friday. On the one hand, I can't do much. On the other, since I'm not doing much, I might as well read. :V
Currently reading: HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. I picked this up because I really loved Echo by the same author.
This one's about a village that is haunted by a 17th-century witch. Old-timey curses + modern technology = the constant risk that somebody will find out about this thing, and the curse will spread. (And as the threat increases, the response from the town takes a historical turn...)
Overall, I'm really enjoying it. The mix of ancient curse + modern tech is something I see more often in film; it seems like something that would be tricky to pull off in text, but it works here. I'm finding it less creepy than Echo, but that one has a very different vibe, so I guess it's a matter of different subgenres hitting differently.
I'm only halfway through it, so it's possible my opinion could change, but so far I'm having a grand time.
Currently reading: HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. I picked this up because I really loved Echo by the same author.
This one's about a village that is haunted by a 17th-century witch. Old-timey curses + modern technology = the constant risk that somebody will find out about this thing, and the curse will spread. (And as the threat increases, the response from the town takes a historical turn...)
Overall, I'm really enjoying it. The mix of ancient curse + modern tech is something I see more often in film; it seems like something that would be tricky to pull off in text, but it works here. I'm finding it less creepy than Echo, but that one has a very different vibe, so I guess it's a matter of different subgenres hitting differently.
I'm only halfway through it, so it's possible my opinion could change, but so far I'm having a grand time.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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Date: 2023-02-23 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-02-24 08:14 pm (UTC)Sounds like a very fun book :000 Have to put it on my 'to be read' list
Hope you recover soon!!
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Date: 2023-02-25 03:41 pm (UTC)I think Echo would also possibly be to your taste - it's about a guy who gets injured in the mountains and Comes Back Wrong. It has a m/m relationship at the centre of it, and a level of landscape eroticism that I've only seen in Hetalia fic. :'D
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Date: 2023-02-25 01:22 pm (UTC)Both HEX and Echo seem super fun! Will put those on my list.
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Date: 2023-02-25 03:42 pm (UTC)Hope you'll enjoy it! I definitely think Echo would be up your alley, at least.