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Vagabond Treehouse (2023) [Beware of Chicken 3 - December 4th]
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Seems possibly safe to read at the beginning, but might not give a good first impression...
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One of my friends reviewed it as a humorous Penny Dreadful story…
Took me a long time to get it straight that this is set in present day and not 1800s… the cover and blurb feels very 1800s, then I’d hear a line about surveillance and 3D printing… at first I wondered if maybe accelerated technology… cause the murders are called Ripper Murders…
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Soooo, should I check it out???
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First one takes place in London... second at a medical conference in Paris, 3rd at a spa for mummies in Marseille region of Spain...
EDIT: I'm probably gonna say you should check out any book I don't outright hate or feel indifferent about / close alot... anything I read in 1 sitting / day, basically... :D
Altho, I still need you to catch up on Black Hat Bureau (I read #6 and you didn't), and we need to continue with Marla Mason (I read #6 and you didn't), Agatha Heterodyne (we're on #3 next), probably Theirs Not to Reason Why, and Ghosts of Gotham (trying to wait for audio #4 before scheduling 3+4)... just saying, the open series keep piling up, when we start new ones instead of finishing old ones :D
I will tackle those first. Next book I hit will be Black Hat Bureau. I think I will read it tomorrow... I need to finish Lightbringer #4 today, because I am doing it in real book and I am home today only for the full day and evening... So I will catch up:)
Well, shucks, yet another book that Iain reads and I don't have time to jump in for, lol. ^^ I picked up the Great VanHelsing books at an audible sale too...
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And even though the site is functioning again, I still get alot of error loads... so it's not really 100% yet, I don't think...
Pretty late yesterday, I finished 2 of my weekly BR reads, and decided to finally read Priest of Crowns, after buying it nearly a year ago, on sale, I think...
This is the finale of the War for the Rose Throne series, which is basically Peaky Blinders with magic, from what the critics say... I've loved every entry of this series I've read... and I've had one of the easiest times listening to this series, despite long gaps waiting for new books and no re-reads... it's impressive really, given all the characters...
I'm over half done with the book already, and it's been pretty bonkers, as expected, considering how memorable the finale of the previous book was... the magic system in this series is relatively mysterious and bonkers... it has that no-holds-barred feeling of the magic in the Manifest Delusions series or the later Lot Lands books...
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All the books are available on Kindle Unlimited Read & Listen, except maybe some of the anthologies/short stories, that you can snag up for cheap...
There's Scarlett Bernard, null mage (has an aura that nullifies other supernaturals, and makes them temporarily human, like in the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger) -- 2 trilogies
And there's Allison "Lex" Luthor, boundary witch (think necromancer / witchy vampire, that is really hard to kill, can interact with ghosts, and can use vampire tricks ON vampire (control/mind manipulate)... she has a niece whose a null, and is protecting her)...
The trilogies alternate, and there's 2 anthologies... the series kinda got derailed for a few years when the author got pregnant... last year, she wrapped up the storylines for now, with a big Old World War Avengers scenario, but I feel like I need a re-read to prepare for it, so that's what I've been doing...
I'm about halfway through my re-read now, having read one trilogy in each series, over the past month or 2...
The series was originally a Buddy Read, a few years ago, with Daniel & Laura, I think...
I'm still seeing lots of errors too. I'm sure they'll figure it out.
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hahaha something! At least refreshing will load whatever page is erroring out.
I had to hit "post" a couple times to post that and also several attempts to update a book I just finished.
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I think there's a larger problem with the internet yesterday/today...
Audible purchase button was broken yesterday... there was a banner acknowledging that sales were failing to process/complete...
Thanks for the warning. I finished my audio book and while I have a few in queue I was debating purchasing the next Threadbare hah I'll hold off for now while the Amazon sorts itself out.
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I think it's been sorted... the red banner is gone...
I was doing the whole refreshing thing yesterday too .. Went on several of those sites to see if it was me and chilled a bit once I found out it was the whole site ... I was frustrated, because I wanted to make a bunch of comments on New York to Dallas and now it's all out of my mind... Very frustrating!
Adding War for the Rose Throne series to my TBR!!! Why is it growing when I have been checking things off of it this year???? Adding Melissa F. Olson - Old World...
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Honestly, I feel like I'm refreshing more today... the site is super broken... have to refresh alot, and then sometimes refresh some more to get comments posted... I'd hate to be trying to create new threads today...
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Adding Melissa F. Olson - Old World..."
It's what I do... basically everything I read that doesn't suck ends up on someone's TBR :D
I wonder if I'd like War for the Rose Throne as much, if I'd ever actually watched more than a few episodes of Peaky Blinders... sometimes there's real advantages to watching so little TV, I guess... :D
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Some people in reviews, compare the series to Game of Thrones, but I saw more parallels to Joe Abercrombie, especially the newer Age of Madness trilogy...
The book was great/amazing/etc... but I have some pretty conflicted feelings about the characters, and their motivations/end results/how reliable the narrator was in the end, etc... then again, these are written as memoirs, and the story repeatedly tells us that history is written by the victors, so I shouldn't be too surprised :D
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It's all Dark Hunter's fault... I mentioned it over there, but I've gone ahead and started a Psy-Changeling re-read, with my spare Hoopla credits... on book 2 already...
Hahaha!!! You are very welcome:)))
Choko wrote: "Adding War for the Rose Throne series to my TBR!!! Why is it growing when I have been checking things off of it this year???? Adding Melissa F. Olson - Old World..."
Hah! Me too! I've been seeing War for the Rose Throne around... definitely want to read that at some point... and I've picked up a few Melissa F. Olson books too...
**Fingers crossed** GR actually isn't being too horrible right now...
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Power is out at work, and 90% of the stoplights on my drive home... so many idiot drivers not following the rules and treating it like a 4 way stop intersection...
Made it home, tho, and have power to cook...
I heard the town on the other side of the interstate has a fair bit of property damage from the tornado... and power out all over the place in the region, according to coworkers...
Yikes, that sounds like quite a handle...
It passed us this time around, thank goodness, but I feel bad for the people it hit... We are sweltering and ash cloud from the Canada fires have been making the air hazy and difficult to breathe for the last three days... We can use a good rain, but it doesn't look likely... I am sorry for what you guys are going through, Iain...!
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Where y’all at? We had that smoke from Canada fires here in WA state a few years ago. Was aweful
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Got to go home and get paid for a full shift, apparently... SNOW DAY!!! :D
City also declared a local state of emergency, and a curfew from 10pm to 5am for all non-essential travel, with half the stoplights in town still out...
Iain is in a suburb of Chicago and I am in St. Louis... This weather pattern is sending the ash down the Midwest and East Coast...
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Generally, any time one of us gets a weather event, the other does as well, or it comes close...
Yikes. Crazy stuff.
Holy macaroni and a hotdog on a stick... that's a big explosion...
Crazy! Yall stay safe!
So I was checking on some series progress and it looks like Nathan Lowell has finished writing the latest Ishmael trilogy and is hard at work on Wizard's Butler 2 :D We may be able to mark that one for next year.
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I picked up the Shaman & Smuggler's Tales on that big sitewide sale, so I could read those before I move on to Ishmael 7-9 and the new 10-12... probably gonna start Shaman's Tales this month or next month, when I have a gap in my BR reading...
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You should join, even if the BR pace fizzles you out, you can get an idea if they're something you'd want to revisit later on, at your own pace...
If I can find the books easily... I'm curious, but I tried Discworld once and I think it wasn't a good place or time...Also, Iain, your typo of Disco-world made me smile... ^^
Are these like the Hitchhikers books or are they good?
I've been wanting to do a Pratchett/Disc-World read-through for a few years now. I've read several of them but never dove in deep. Looks like 2024 is the year of Disc World :)
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The internet says the early Discworld books have some Hitchhiker vibes, but Pratchett settles into his own style after 3-4 books...
I honestly liked the first Hitchhiker book, and felt like the series had diminishing returns... I abandoned the series around book 3...
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Same, basically... I'm sure there'll be alot of interest at the start, and we'll see how much maintains momentum...
Yanique wrote: "Discworld huh... I've always been curious..."You should absolutely join us :)
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