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Eh. So this is one of those comedy of manners things? Meh.

Hugo-winning/nominated fiction and I just don't jive. When will I ever learn? Already somewhat bored with this. It's aggressively whimsical to the point of being obnoxious.

Baffling book. As in I'm not sure what the hell is going on, it's littered with unpronounceable names, weird politics, etc. But, I'm still reading.

"I'm made from a lot of unfulfilled arson." Aren't we all Jenny, aren't we all.

"...at four a.m. a different nurse shook me awake and brusquely said, 'You can go now. We got what we needed.' She refused to tell me exactly what it was they'd gotten and I started to suspect it was my kidneys."

"Benedict Cumberbatch is like Alan Rickman Benjamin Buttoning." *Giggles*

"Yet when he answered a patient's call, even in the middle of the night, his very first words were always 'I am sorry you are not feeling well.' How rare it is to hear a doctor express such empathy."

I'm finding this totally amazing...despite a huge horse-related error. Regarding feed. You never, ever, ever in a million, zillion years, abruptly change a horse's feed. Especially not from a low quality grass hay to a rich alfalfa. Any horse person knows this is how vet bills and sometimes, dead horses, happen. Just no!

And now for something completely different.

I like this because it sort of acknowledges, on like a meta level, that horses are dangerous. Well, they are. Regular horses won't rip your arm off and eat it, but they're big and sometimes unpredictable and that makes them dangerous.

Argh. Mistakening marked this tedious dreck as finish and gave it 5-stars. Uh, no, still slogging through it.

At this point, I'm determined to finish this so as to silence the fanboys/girls who will whine, "But you can't review the book if you didn't finish it." But this thing is duller than an old chain saw that's been left out in the rain. Nice protagonist is nice. ZZZZZzzzzzzz.

Yep, I think Bacigalupi is my new favorite author.

It's probably unwise to hope (expect?) that Dane will get rescued, because Mieville often isn't kind to his characters. :(

This is giving me the kind of happys I haven't had with urban fantasy in a looong time.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, politics and clothing and manners. So far, it's pretty much standard Hugo-nom fare. Pretty sentences but not much there. Zzzzz.

Squid-pocalypse! I for one, welcome out tentacled overlords.

Oy vey, this thing is slooooow. Like a little old lady (who can barely see over the steering wheel) driving a big car to church.

The Bees. A lot more ZZZZZzzzzz than Buzz.

Bees as an allegorical device for...something or other. Weird.

Boring. Did I say "boring?" I meant, a slowly unfolding story of an unlikely king in a meticulously fashioned fantasy world. In other words, boring.

Holy shit, more than two-thirds done and still, abso-fucking-lutely nothing has happened in this book. It's like a really long backstory exercise.

"I don't think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire." Heh.

This continues to read like a really long prologue. Logen is at a fancy dinner and just ate the bouquet that's sitting on the table. Amusing. But when's the killin' gonna get done? This is Abercrombie, for crap's sake.

I'm so fucking bored with everything else I'm reading, than when this popped up for sale, cheap, I was like gimmee-sum-dat.

Another "happy" book. Fun.

Meh. There's both a flatness and inconsistency to the characterization that is already putting me off this book. Meh.

I'd still like to kick what's-his-name, the rich-boy-soldier-duelist in the head, and Logon...why the fuck is he still wandering in the wilderness like a nine-fingered Moses? Come on, story, do something interesting.

This isn't going to end well.....

Come on, book, get interesting. Why can't you be interesting?