“How can you tell the legend from the facts on these worlds that lie so many years away?” This continues: “–planets without names, called by their people simply The World, planets without history, where the past is a matter of myth, and a returning explorer finds his own doings a few years back have become the gestures of a god. Unreason darkens that gap of time bridged by our lightspeed ships, and in the darkness uncertainty and disproportion grow like weeds.” This is how the […]
Funny, she doesn’t look Hainish – The Found and the Lost part 2
Part twoooooo. Novella 8 A Woman’s Liberation 1994 4/5 Stars Another Hain novella, this one narrated by an “asset” or in our words, slave. In this particular society, these assets are total slaves to their masters through legal status, through training, and through their utter dependence to the system itself. Our narrator, used and abused by her masters, in this particular society, all women, she finds herself liberated by order of fiat by her new master. This presents a real problem. Like in much of […]
“Love is the bridge that spans the world above and below, and keeps the wheel of life turning.”
I’ve actually been thinking about how to review this book since I finished reading it almost a week ago and I still have no idea. It’s clearly inspired by the movie Labyrinth (the author says as much) as well as other myths and legends that most of us are at least somewhat familiar with. I’m not an expert on any of these subjects and I haven’t seen Labyrinth in a long time (I tried recently but I couldn’t) so I don’t know if someone who […]
A darker shade of yes, please.
Parallel universes are categorically THE BEST, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them done quite like they are here in A Darker Shade of Magic, the first book in Victoria Schwab’s* Shades of Magic series, which just published its third and final book last week. *She writes YA under her real name, and adult fiction under her pseudonym V.E. Schwab. I’m late to the party, especially given how much I love fantasy and parallel universes, but I don’t really care because I now own […]
Classic second book syndrome.
Man, last year when I read the first book in this series, I read it so fast and got so super into it. I was expecting something similar to happen when I picked up book two several weeks ago, but my experience was pretty much the exact opposite. I read the first one in practically one sitting over the course of one day. This one took me weeks to finish, and I had to force myself to pick it up. While reading, I enjoyed myself, but […]
“When something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.”
I’m already pretty familiar with the Norse gods thanks to an early obsession with different mythologies, but you don’t pass up an opportunity to read Neil Gaiman’s take on them. Especially if you happen to be in a book shop and see a copy and remember that your boyfriend never bought you a copy despite the number of colossal hints you’ve already dropped. Anyway… Norse Mythology is a short trip through the stories of the gods – I read it all in one lazy morning […]