It's still book 3, but I found it interesting how different it is from Dresden Files. There is no forces of nature with personal enmity with the protagonist (yet), it's just (magic) crimes being solved by (magic) police. More of a police procedural then whatever genre Dresden Files is 😀

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

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[–] ImUsuallyMoreClever@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm reading "This is How You Lose the Time War" and "His to Be Perfect" currently.

I recommend both of them!

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is How You Lose the Time War is pretty divisive from what I've seen. Unfortunately I fell on the side that didn't care for it.

[–] ImUsuallyMoreClever@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I had no idea it was divisive. It won a Hugo, a Nebula, and was Amazon's top seller in sci-fi for a time.

Is it because it's an epistolary novel?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Divisive in the sense that I've found people either love it or hate it. I think people have different reasons. Personally I found the prose way, way too purple to the point of being pretentious. I also found the two characters' voices were practically identical which is extra surprising because they were even written by different people.

I dunno, it was like a 4.5/5 idea to me with a 1.5/5 execution. Just my opinion.

[–] ImUsuallyMoreClever@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Oh gotcha. I totally agree the two characters voices are so close! I had to go back a couple times in the beginning to recheck who's part I was currently reading.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I’m still working through Drew Hayes Super Powereds series, I’ve finished book 3 and am reading a spin-off called Corpies that takes place during book 3.

The quality has definitely improved. Still could have benefited from a good editor but not quite as much as before. It’s moved into A tier.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought you might give up after the last one. Glad it improved.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh, I have finished plenty worse series 😂. I read the first two books of a trilogy that was cancelled because it was so bad once.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still deeply down the TrekLit rabbit hole.

Finished the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy early last week (amazing, BTW) and am now through the first two books of the DS9: Millennium trilogy.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do let me know for all the "must reads" that you come across. I'll probably never read all the Star Trek books but I can read some of the best ones.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I actually did a post a while back asking for recommendations since, yeah, there's a lot of them and I really only have time for the "must reads".

https://startrek.website/post/28030285

So far, I've read two and 2/3 (one single, one trilogy, and 2/3 of another trilogy). I can recommend them all as "must reads" (unless Millennium falls apart in the 3rd book; just started it last night).

A Stitch in Time
ST: Destiny
DS9: Millennium

Probably next up is the first in the "Titan" series (as recommended by someone in that post). I only bought the first one in that series. If it's good, I'll buy the rest of them.

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[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've put the spy thriller I was trying to read on hold for now, since I just haven't been in the mood for it.

Instead, I read:

The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey (cozy-ish historical urban-ish fantasy) | bingo: another continent, award (hard), minority author

A Scottish governess helps out two families with their mundane and supernatural issues in 1890s Singapore.

This was cute, and I'll be putting the sequels on my list of things to read when I need some light fluff. Recommended, but don't go into it expecting the kind of thing that features modern inserts flouting society left and right: the characters generally do what's expected of them, even when they're frustrated by the limitations and injustices of their world.

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[–] Elextra@literature.cafe 4 points 6 days ago

Audio book : First Lie Wins. Just an easy listen.

EBook: My Friends by Fredrik Backman. I already cried and I just started lol

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

About halfway through Mistborn: The Final Empire.

[–] tingly@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I just finished this a few days ago. The ending is well worth the bit of sluggish-ness that happens midway through. Enjoy!

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass. It was described as a tie for the “all-time best U.S. book about human loneliness” with Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Foster Wallace, so I look forward to it on that endorsement.

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right now I'm reading the biography of a Finnish conservationist Pentti Linkola. He was controversial but interesting a character.

I also have City of Darkness on the table, it's about Kowloon Walled City. Both books are great!

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[–] Contrariwise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm in the middle of the 6th book of The Wandering Inn webserial. I hear it's so long that I may be reading it for the rest of my life.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 5 days ago

You'll find many fans for series here.

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

I need to start a new book, just finished the last one. It was a Sklyler Ramirez book, and I shared in a post this weekend that I strongly suspect him using AI to write. That said, the books are fine if you're in the market for some light scifi reading, I've read most of it in bed before sleeping.

Next will be "This inevitable ruin" by Matt Dinniman. I've read the first five DCC books early this year, and listened to "the eye of the Bedlam bride" this summer, so I'll just complete the series so far.

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