Jul. 27th, 2021

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My Kindle app has been recommending Victoria Goddard at me for a few months now, and a few days ago I finally said, okay! Fine! I will try one of her shorter works and see if I like her writing style! And then I can either safely ignore these recs or I will have found a new good author!

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I got the second result. :)

Thus far I have finished:

-The Tower at the Edge of the World, in which a nameless young man in an enchanted tower makes the first choice of his life

-In the Company of Gentlemen, in which an old soldier visiting his nephew at university tells a tale of his most ignominious day in the imperial army

-all five extant Greenwing & Dart novels (Stargazy Pie, Bee Sting Cake, Whiskeyjack, Blackcurrant Fool, Love-in-a-Mist), which are Regency-ish comedy of manners meets trope-tastic pulp adventure story meets post-magical-apocalypse worldbuilding meets hang-on-is-this-actually-going-to-end-up-in-democratic-socialist-revolution in addition to return-of-the-rightful-monarch??? political intrigue, and are entirely delightful

This evening I started The Bride of the Blue Wind, the first of the Sisters Avramapul duology, which thus far seems to be an Arabian Nights twist on Eros-and-Psyche gone wrong.

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Those are all set in the same overarching multiverse, by the way.

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There are apparently five works on AO3 for The Hands of the Emperor (which I have also purchased but am waiting to read until I finish both Sisters Avramapul novellas because it looks long), all written within the past two months (WHAT), but none for any of her other books.

This is a travesty.

Fortunately, Yuletide exists, and I know at least one canon I am DEFINITELY nominating this year. :DDD

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