It's still book 3, but I found it interesting how different it is from Dresden Files. There is no forces of nature with personal enmity with the protagonist (yet), it's just (magic) crimes being solved by (magic) police. More of a police procedural then whatever genre Dresden Files is 😀

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

This is How You Lose the Time War is pretty divisive from what I've seen. Unfortunately I fell on the side that didn't care for it.

[–] ImUsuallyMoreClever@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, I had no idea it was divisive. It won a Hugo, a Nebula, and was Amazon's top seller in sci-fi for a time.

Is it because it's an epistolary novel?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Divisive in the sense that I've found people either love it or hate it. I think people have different reasons. Personally I found the prose way, way too purple to the point of being pretentious. I also found the two characters' voices were practically identical which is extra surprising because they were even written by different people.

I dunno, it was like a 4.5/5 idea to me with a 1.5/5 execution. Just my opinion.

[–] ImUsuallyMoreClever@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Oh gotcha. I totally agree the two characters voices are so close! I had to go back a couple times in the beginning to recheck who's part I was currently reading.