book post: last two for a bit
Aug. 9th, 2020 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queenlualumping these together since i don't have a ton to say about them:
Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
I already commented on this book, er, months ago, under a lock, when I wasn’t done reading it. My opinion didn't change much when I finished it, but for the sake of completeness:
* It’s a super tropey, super serviceable, cheesy 80s/90s-ish mass-market fantasy novel. Not bad, but it’s just very comically black-and-white good-vs-evil morality, and thus I was lowkey rolling my eyes at some bits.
* Also: so if Red, White, and Royal Blue was 2010s-era slashfic, this has elements of like, 80s/90s era slashfic? In that—from my dim memory of 90s-era fanfic, anyway—the trend was generally tilted toward schmoopier / softer / extremely Full Of Feels narratives, if that makes any sense? And, yeah, that is definitely the vibe of the pairing here. And it’s fine, inasmuch as that goes, but the romance was a bit too weirdly schmoopy for my tastes.
So yeah, this is the kind of book I’d pick up in an airport if I want something guaranteed to be at least mildly diverting on a plane ride (there’s something to be said for consistency!), but I probably wouldn’t touch it otherwise.
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Goddamn this ruled.
I wish I had more detailed/nuanced thoughts than that. It’s a compelling coming-of-age story set in a time/place that I knew very little about previously (Iran during the Islamic Revolution-ish era in the 70s/80s; then expat life in France in the 80s; then back to Iran for a bit). Like most graphic novels I read, I read it pretty quickly, which tends to make it harder for me to remember interesting details :P but I’d recommend it if it sounds at all like your jam. (I hear the animated movie adaptation is also very good?)
And yeah, with that I'm all caught up on bookposting for a bit. Sorry for the reading list spam! Now back to some actual reading; A Memory Called Empire is really good so far...!
Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
I already commented on this book, er, months ago, under a lock, when I wasn’t done reading it. My opinion didn't change much when I finished it, but for the sake of completeness:
* It’s a super tropey, super serviceable, cheesy 80s/90s-ish mass-market fantasy novel. Not bad, but it’s just very comically black-and-white good-vs-evil morality, and thus I was lowkey rolling my eyes at some bits.
* Also: so if Red, White, and Royal Blue was 2010s-era slashfic, this has elements of like, 80s/90s era slashfic? In that—from my dim memory of 90s-era fanfic, anyway—the trend was generally tilted toward schmoopier / softer / extremely Full Of Feels narratives, if that makes any sense? And, yeah, that is definitely the vibe of the pairing here. And it’s fine, inasmuch as that goes, but the romance was a bit too weirdly schmoopy for my tastes.
So yeah, this is the kind of book I’d pick up in an airport if I want something guaranteed to be at least mildly diverting on a plane ride (there’s something to be said for consistency!), but I probably wouldn’t touch it otherwise.
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Goddamn this ruled.
I wish I had more detailed/nuanced thoughts than that. It’s a compelling coming-of-age story set in a time/place that I knew very little about previously (Iran during the Islamic Revolution-ish era in the 70s/80s; then expat life in France in the 80s; then back to Iran for a bit). Like most graphic novels I read, I read it pretty quickly, which tends to make it harder for me to remember interesting details :P but I’d recommend it if it sounds at all like your jam. (I hear the animated movie adaptation is also very good?)
And yeah, with that I'm all caught up on bookposting for a bit. Sorry for the reading list spam! Now back to some actual reading; A Memory Called Empire is really good so far...!
