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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? September 8 (discuss.online)
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Finished The Novice by Trudi Canavan. The second book in The Black Magician trilogy.

Found the second half to be more interesting than the first half, but that is probably just me.

Started Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman, book 2 of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

70% through The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells. It's pretty okay, but the tension drags on a bit at points. There was a section with one of the heroes sneakily holding onto a horse-drawn carriage as it drives through town; it felt like the scene went on for 20 pages (it didn't) and the tension kept getting amped up to the point where I felt no tension at all. Still good enough to finish though.

Took a brief break and got 15% into Over the Wine Dark Sea by H. N. Turteltaub. I'm really enjoying it, got a laid back style that I appreciate. Shout out to whoever recommended that in one of these threads a couple months back.