Oooh, I wanted to pick up this series for a few years now, ever since I read and immensely enjoyed a short story in the epistolary style by one of the authors - The Vital Importance of the Superficial by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer (in the gaslight anthology Queen Victoria's Book of Spells). I remember trying it out on audio, but the narrator grated on my ears so badly that I couldn't do it and had to put it down 😅I am glad that the narrator worked for you, tho! 😊Narration style is such a subjective thing, after all. But I need to try picking up this book again, sans audio, since I really loved that short story.
I really enjoyed the first one, but thought the other two were just less gripping and somehow I wasn't as invested in the stories anymore. I think this is a perfect series to abandon after book one and regard it as a standalone, as I would recommend it to everyone interested in the genre.
I have a suggestion of a book you might like. It is very similar in how the authors wrote the novel, but a different genre and tone. It's called This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. It is a very different type of vibe but I thought it was incredible. A SciFi novel about two rival assassins who travel through time to change the events of this war, who end up writing notes taunting each other, than letters, developing a friendship from their loneliness and develop stronger feelings
I’ve read that one and I did enjoy it :) thank you for recommending it though as it’s one of the few others I’ve read in this style and others may enjoy it!
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Oooh, I wanted to pick up this series for a few years now, ever since I read and immensely enjoyed a short story in the epistolary style by one of the authors - The Vital Importance of the Superficial by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer (in the gaslight anthology Queen Victoria's Book of Spells).
I remember trying it out on audio, but the narrator grated on my ears so badly that I couldn't do it and had to put it down 😅I am glad that the narrator worked for you, tho! 😊Narration style is such a subjective thing, after all. But I need to try picking up this book again, sans audio, since I really loved that short story.
Hope you enjoy the actual book :D it’s a lovely fun series.
@@kittygbooks Thanks! I hope I will! ☺
I really enjoyed the first one, but thought the other two were just less gripping and somehow I wasn't as invested in the stories anymore. I think this is a perfect series to abandon after book one and regard it as a standalone, as I would recommend it to everyone interested in the genre.
Yes I can definitely see why people would recommend it that way. Book #1 was by far the strongest for me
I have a suggestion of a book you might like. It is very similar in how the authors wrote the novel, but a different genre and tone. It's called This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. It is a very different type of vibe but I thought it was incredible. A SciFi novel about two rival assassins who travel through time to change the events of this war, who end up writing notes taunting each other, than letters, developing a friendship from their loneliness and develop stronger feelings
I’ve read that one and I did enjoy it :) thank you for recommending it though as it’s one of the few others I’ve read in this style and others may enjoy it!
Thanks for the review! Have u read Illborn by Daniel T Jackson?? I’m currently reading this book so far it’s good!! Happy reading to you!! 🎉
I haven’t yet but I do own it and I need to get to that one soon :)