Have you read Bujold's Vorkosigan saga? It's touted as military science fiction, which it is, nominally; but it's so much more than that, if you're not familiar with it. "Falling Free" is loosely tied with it but can be read separately.
If you're famliar with it, then...you know. I want very much to read 'Captain Vorpatril's Alliance', the newest release; but I'm hesitant in case it's not as good as Ivan deserves.
I didn't read the book before that because I'm pretty sure there's a character death that CAN'T HAPPEN. So if I don't read it, it never happened, lalalalala ~sticks fingers in ears...no, wait, that wouldn't help...covers eyes, instead
Regarding that urban fantasy series, have you ever read any of the Anita Blake series, by Laurel K Hamilton? The first 3-4 were very good supernatural mysteries, with a heroine that reminded me a bit of V.I.Warshawski in her sandpapery tenderness. After that, the series took a huge dive as the author's RL issues took over the plot-she'd modelled one of the main characters after her husband, now ex-husband, and can we say bitter? IT BURNS, PRECIOUS, IT BURNS.
Again, if you've read the series, my condolences. If not, and anyone recs it to you, I'd back away slowly and flee. Any kind of plot arc just devolves into nothing but porn and it's not good porn, nilly. Reader complaints got vocal enough that she's apparently backed off the sex, Mary Sue-ing of Anita and made her problem anti-hero a bit less of an asshole, and so on in the latter few titles. But you'd have to plow through a good dozen bad ones to get there.
Sadly, the Sookie Stackhouse books were heading the same way the last time I picked one up, about 4 titles in. I think the author'd been reading Hamilton.
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Date: 2013-02-07 12:20 am (UTC)If you're famliar with it, then...you know. I want very much to read 'Captain Vorpatril's Alliance', the newest release; but I'm hesitant in case it's not as good as Ivan deserves.
I didn't read the book before that because I'm pretty sure there's a character death that CAN'T HAPPEN. So if I don't read it, it never happened, lalalalala ~sticks fingers in ears...no, wait, that wouldn't help...covers eyes, instead
Regarding that urban fantasy series, have you ever read any of the Anita Blake series, by Laurel K Hamilton? The first 3-4 were very good supernatural mysteries, with a heroine that reminded me a bit of V.I.Warshawski in her sandpapery tenderness. After that, the series took a huge dive as the author's RL issues took over the plot-she'd modelled one of the main characters after her husband, now ex-husband, and can we say bitter? IT BURNS, PRECIOUS, IT BURNS.
Again, if you've read the series, my condolences. If not, and anyone recs it to you, I'd back away slowly and flee. Any kind of plot arc just devolves into nothing but porn and it's not good porn, nilly. Reader complaints got vocal enough that she's apparently backed off the sex, Mary Sue-ing of Anita and made her problem anti-hero a bit less of an asshole, and so on in the latter few titles. But you'd have to plow through a good dozen bad ones to get there.
Sadly, the Sookie Stackhouse books were heading the same way the last time I picked one up, about 4 titles in. I think the author'd been reading Hamilton.