2013 book roundup; git along now, little novels

[comrade_cat]

An end of year summary of the books I read in 2013. (A slightly shorter version is x-posted to bookish.)

Stats:total books finished: 101

Comments

[rheasilvia]

Thank you very much for this! I've found several books that look very interesting to me on your list - am ordering the first one (Assassin's Gambit) right now. :-)

You are most definitely right about the marketing, btw. It looks like a bodice ripper.

[comrade_cat]

Yay, I am so glad to popularize any of these! :) And yeah, I could bash those marketing people on the head. I know men who would really like this book but with the art and series title only one of them would even think of looking at it.

What other ones are calling to you?

[rheasilvia]

The truly unfortunate thing about marketing what sounds like a dark, angst-heavy fantasy as a historical romance is that even the readers who do pick up the book will probably end up being disappointed. After all, if you buy a novel in which you expect a pseudo-medieval lord to sweep a fair maiden off her feet (overpowering her and leaving her defenceless in the face of his sheer masculinity), you are unlikely to be happy about being presented with something completely different instead.

The other books I'm looking at are Gameboard of the Gods, Fortune's Pawn and Ancillary Justice.

(Hope it's okay to friend you, btw!)

[comrade_cat]

The truly unfortunate thing [ . . . ]This is very very true. Unfortunately