Still reading Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch. Book 3 of Rivers of London series.

Nothing much to talk about it yet.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?


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    17 days ago

    Just finished Deep Black by Miles Cameron. It’s the second and final in his Arcana Imperii series.

    It’s military sci-fi space opera that does a lot of things right. The main character isn’t an unlikable bastard, she grows and changes throughout the series, it’s not super hard science but it’s also not hand-wavy fantasy, they deal with acceleration and relativistic effects, etc. . But it also bothered me - she’s a bit of a Mary Sue (although this gets addressed); there are huge swathes of actions described that probably weren’t necessary like pilots going through all of the check steps, launching, doing actions, landing; some of the antagonists were a bit mustache-twirly evil. Overall though, it’s still got me thinking about it and turning it over in my mind, so I’d still recommend it.