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Books, and the love of.
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.