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50 Book Challenge
May. 3rd, 2008 06:01 am1 - The Mirador by Sarah Monette 5/5
2 - Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale 4/5
3 - Transformation by Carol Berg 4.5/5
4 - The Phoenix by Ruth Sims 4/5
5 - I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert 4/5
6 - Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff 3/5
7 - Regeneration by Pat Barker 5/5
8 - Atonement by Ian McEwan 3/5
9 - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 4/5
10 - Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling 5/5
I've been wanting to read this book for ages, and it didn't disappoint me. Lovely writing, an interesting plot, characters written to fall in love with, and heavy on the slash. Well, I suppose I shouldn't put it that way...heavy on the implications that much slash is forthcoming in the rest of the series. I looked up the author on Amazon tonight, and I was super excited to see that there's a new book in this series coming out later this year! Quite a shock, as I was under the impression it was a trilogy, the last book having come out almost ten years ago. I hope to be finished with books two and three by the time the fourth one comes out in July.
Plus, this author is SO AWESOME. She has a page on her website where she recommends other SF/F books, and this was in one of her descriptions: "Androgyny, homoeroticism, sadism, lots and lots of sex and anguish. What more could you want?"
Indeed - what more could you want than an author who says things like that? :-)
On a semi-related note: seven out of the ten books I've read so far this year have had same-sex relationships as a main theme. I'm seriously going to run out of good books to read that fall into the "gay fantasy" genre.
2 - Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale 4/5
3 - Transformation by Carol Berg 4.5/5
4 - The Phoenix by Ruth Sims 4/5
5 - I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert 4/5
6 - Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff 3/5
7 - Regeneration by Pat Barker 5/5
8 - Atonement by Ian McEwan 3/5
9 - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 4/5
10 - Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling 5/5
I've been wanting to read this book for ages, and it didn't disappoint me. Lovely writing, an interesting plot, characters written to fall in love with, and heavy on the slash. Well, I suppose I shouldn't put it that way...heavy on the implications that much slash is forthcoming in the rest of the series. I looked up the author on Amazon tonight, and I was super excited to see that there's a new book in this series coming out later this year! Quite a shock, as I was under the impression it was a trilogy, the last book having come out almost ten years ago. I hope to be finished with books two and three by the time the fourth one comes out in July.
Plus, this author is SO AWESOME. She has a page on her website where she recommends other SF/F books, and this was in one of her descriptions: "Androgyny, homoeroticism, sadism, lots and lots of sex and anguish. What more could you want?"
Indeed - what more could you want than an author who says things like that? :-)
On a semi-related note: seven out of the ten books I've read so far this year have had same-sex relationships as a main theme. I'm seriously going to run out of good books to read that fall into the "gay fantasy" genre.
