I had trouble with the Raksura books - the worldbuilding is interesting and I liked the main characters, but it felt like as soon as I'd gotten somewhat used to the setting she dragged everybody off to a new setting, with another cast herd of difficult-to-remember-the-names-of characters... it made me a bit tired.
I loved Wheel of the Infinite - cranky, competent, older female protagonists make me very happy and I adored the sub plot with the theatre troop and the cursed puppet. It's also a very satisfying read after City of Bones, in that the villains of Wheel can easily be read as the Inhabitants of the West from City and I enjoy seeing them obliterated.
(City of Bones is my absolute favourite - it has relic-hunting and archaeology and found family and learning to live after the apocalypse and banter and... It's a sad ending, but there's room for things to get better for Khat and he has friends around him, and I'm going to hang onto that.)
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Date: 2019-02-07 07:40 am (UTC)I loved Wheel of the Infinite - cranky, competent, older female protagonists make me very happy and I adored the sub plot with the theatre troop and the cursed puppet. It's also a very satisfying read after City of Bones, in that the villains of Wheel can easily be read as the Inhabitants of the West from City and I enjoy seeing them obliterated.
(City of Bones is my absolute favourite - it has relic-hunting and archaeology and found family and learning to live after the apocalypse and banter and... It's a sad ending, but there's room for things to get better for Khat and he has friends around him, and I'm going to hang onto that.)