Books
A couple of weeks ago while on my lunch break at work, I was in a bookshop as usual. I was looking at the Terry Pratchett books and I happened to look down to the left and saw a hardback book with a couple of dragons outside of is it St Paul's Cathedral? It was called Victory of Eagles and reading the synopsis I discovered it was the fifth book in
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The first two were the best IMHO then the fifth one. I wasn't so keen on the third and fourth (the fourth ends on a liffhanger) but they were still enjoybale and non-putdownable.
And it is an intriguging set up.
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Oh you recognised it, for some reason I forgot to put the name of the first book. I did exactly the same thing when I talked about Laurie King's Kate Martinelli series in an earlier post.
The first two were the best IMHO then the fifth one.
I have the fifth one as well for some odd reason, I had a £5 pound off voucher and it must have been already reduced by £2, so the book only actually cost £7.99 which was cheaper than even the internet*G*
I wasn't so keen on the third and fourth (the fourth ends on a liffhanger)
In that case I might try and get them from the library before I decide whether or not to buy them or not. I'm rapidly running out of space on my bookshelves.
And it is an intriguging set up.
I like how she enables women to act outside of the period setting without it seeming really out of place, that they need them for the Longwings. I wonder how many novels she'll actually do and if she'll end up moving them into different time periods at some point.
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I indeed. Mainly because I read Victory of Eagles just a few weeks ago.
I have the fifth one as well for some odd reason, I had a £5 pound off voucher and it must have been already reduced by £2, so the book only actually cost £7.99 which was cheaper than even the internet*G*
Oooo now there is a bargin. Good stuff.
In that case I might try and get them from the library before I decide whether or not to buy them or not. I'm rapidly running out of space on my bookshelves.
I might be doing them an injustice but my mother also didnlt enjoy the third as much (she ahs to read the fourth). Mind you I devoured them in quick sucession which possibly didn't help.
I like how she enables women to act outside of the period setting without it seeming really out of place, that they need them for the Longwings. I wonder how many novels she'll actually do ( ... )
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An interesting thing about the voucher, they give it back and my mother was able to re-use it today. Hmm, I wonder if they gave it back afterward.
Mind you I devoured them in quick sucession which possibly didn't help.
I've done that with a few series. I know when I read the Mary Russell series I was reading them close together and I tried to make myself slow down to try and space them out for when the next book comes out next year. Of course when I heard about the signing I had to speed up again and read them all before I went.
I did find Terry Pratchett's books hard going when I tried to do the same with them. I got through the first 3 books in the Rincewind series, but it was slow going. They're good books I think the main problem is no chapters. You don't have chapters to aim for. You have to be remembering page numbers all of the time.
I heard she was thinking of 9 or 10 in this series,
Oh, I didn't think it'd be as many as that.
presumably going all the way through the Napoleonic ( ... )
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