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30/50 The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
So, The Luxe is usually marketed a step behind Gossip Girls as some retro-version of it, what with the socialites but the different time period. I don't really like the concept of socialites (don't they have something better to do with all that money?) but ended up really liking The Luxe. I guess because Godbersen didn't really take an opinion on the socialite thing: she just happened to be writing about socialites. The girls were outrageous, if possibly stereotypical (I wouldn't know, I don't regularly read books in this genre) and the plot was a bit familiar (it amused me that one of the couples had the names Elizabeth and Will) but the historical detail was a plus, and so was the voice. I love that voice, which is a bit aristocratic, I think.
31/50 On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
About a man named Zane who kills Death and must assume his office, assisting souls in balance to their final destination. At first, I didn't really like it and greatly wished it was about Terry Pratchett's DEATH instead. But I got hooked when Zane dealt with the old folks' home wedged between the bar and the church. It was pretty much awesome from that point on. I'd say that Pratchett is more amusingly whimsical (or whimsically amusing?) than Anthony but Anthony has more plot, which is meritorious in its own way.
Next: House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones, In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
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So, The Luxe is usually marketed a step behind Gossip Girls as some retro-version of it, what with the socialites but the different time period. I don't really like the concept of socialites (don't they have something better to do with all that money?) but ended up really liking The Luxe. I guess because Godbersen didn't really take an opinion on the socialite thing: she just happened to be writing about socialites. The girls were outrageous, if possibly stereotypical (I wouldn't know, I don't regularly read books in this genre) and the plot was a bit familiar (it amused me that one of the couples had the names Elizabeth and Will) but the historical detail was a plus, and so was the voice. I love that voice, which is a bit aristocratic, I think.
31/50 On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
About a man named Zane who kills Death and must assume his office, assisting souls in balance to their final destination. At first, I didn't really like it and greatly wished it was about Terry Pratchett's DEATH instead. But I got hooked when Zane dealt with the old folks' home wedged between the bar and the church. It was pretty much awesome from that point on. I'd say that Pratchett is more amusingly whimsical (or whimsically amusing?) than Anthony but Anthony has more plot, which is meritorious in its own way.
Next: House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones, In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
Rest of My Reading List