DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Any Weird Fiction recs? Is China Mieville any good?
Any Weird Fiction recs? Is China Mieville any good?
He is great, and his writing is incredible, but I find his plots unsettling and characters unsatisfying. I would start with Neil Gaiman.Any Weird Fiction recs? Is China Mieville any good?
Robin McKinley is SO good.
Yeah this was the 3rd book of hers I've read but I wasn't really expecting to like it so much since I found the romance elements of The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown to be... not nearly so well done.
Have you read Carol Berg’s Rai-Kirah trilogy, Mytho? Another strong, upstanding main character there, although the series is a difficult read in a lot of ways. The first book grabbed me, the second one kind of wore me out with its gratuitous torture of the main character, but the third one did redeem itself, I think.
I finished reading The Curse of Chalion and ended up liking it so much more than I expected to at the beginning. There was a lot more to it than political intrigue. Including really good development and use of a pantheon such as you seldom see in fantasy these days. There was a lot of great characterization too.