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I've finished Trickster's Queen and now must wait. The next two books from her are due next year, one in each of the two universes. But neither is what I had hoped for - I want more that will show me Alanna and Aly and Daine and possibly Keladry. The next book in the universe is supposedly to be set 200 years in the past. I think I will come to like it, because she has that effect - but I don't feel that Aly's story is done. It's true her immediate tale was finished, but she promises to have a good many more important stories about her, and I want to see them more than I want to meet the new girl from 200 years ago....
Ah, well. Meanwhile, I was enthusiastically recommending Amy Thomson's The Color of Distance to someone (the sequel to it, Through Alien Eyes, is a good book - but Color is so exquisite it made of its sequel a huge disappointment for me - they are not on the same level). So I reread it. Now I can't stand the Star Trek books I had remaining. They're perfectly fine for what they are, I'm sure; but comparing them to the exquisite work of art that is Color is a vast disfavor, and I find myself uninterested in Trek just now. So I'm returning a couple of them to the library unread. I'm glad I had read most of them before I did this; I'll have to pick up the others another time, when the vivid wish for more books in the Color series (and closer to its awe-inspiring quality) has faded.
She has one out, Storyteller, that I hadn't heard of; not the same universe from what I can see, but so what? I've checked; the library has it, and there's a copy at my library. I'm thinking I will just go snag that one today (I can always place a hold if someone beats me to it, but with my luck if I hold it now, I will be unable to get it today). The only one of her books I'm aware of that the library doesn't have is Virtual Girl. That one's a good story - none of the three I've read by Thomson could be called less than good, in my opinion - but it's no Color. I don't imagine this one would be either. Everything came together in that book. But perhaps this one will be. I'm hoping for something good; that's a fair expectation from this author, I think. I wish she could consistently hit the Color mark, but I know an author who can do that sort of thing is rare. That she did it at all...I'm so glad I have that book.
Ah, well. Meanwhile, I was enthusiastically recommending Amy Thomson's The Color of Distance to someone (the sequel to it, Through Alien Eyes, is a good book - but Color is so exquisite it made of its sequel a huge disappointment for me - they are not on the same level). So I reread it. Now I can't stand the Star Trek books I had remaining. They're perfectly fine for what they are, I'm sure; but comparing them to the exquisite work of art that is Color is a vast disfavor, and I find myself uninterested in Trek just now. So I'm returning a couple of them to the library unread. I'm glad I had read most of them before I did this; I'll have to pick up the others another time, when the vivid wish for more books in the Color series (and closer to its awe-inspiring quality) has faded.
She has one out, Storyteller, that I hadn't heard of; not the same universe from what I can see, but so what? I've checked; the library has it, and there's a copy at my library. I'm thinking I will just go snag that one today (I can always place a hold if someone beats me to it, but with my luck if I hold it now, I will be unable to get it today). The only one of her books I'm aware of that the library doesn't have is Virtual Girl. That one's a good story - none of the three I've read by Thomson could be called less than good, in my opinion - but it's no Color. I don't imagine this one would be either. Everything came together in that book. But perhaps this one will be. I'm hoping for something good; that's a fair expectation from this author, I think. I wish she could consistently hit the Color mark, but I know an author who can do that sort of thing is rare. That she did it at all...I'm so glad I have that book.
