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Arifel
Posted 2017-04-08 1:00 AM (#15569 - in reply to #15544)
Subject: Re: Giants of Genre: A Long Book Challenge 2017		Quote Reply



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My audiobook listening has been tending towards shorter books recently, as I've been going through a lot of the Tor.com novellas through the two "season" collections they've made. But I'm now testing my long book staying power with the full cast recording of Dune (which I've never read before, shocking as that is) and am very much enjoying it so far - narrator and cast are both fantastic.

I'm finding this challenge useful for pushing myself to read qualifying books, but not so great for forcing myself to review them...! Of the five things I've read so far on this challenge, I've most enjoyed Twelve Kings by Bradley Beaulieu and Gemina by Jay Kristoff and Anne Kaufmann (although this definitely isn't a long book by word count, it is an intimidatingly big hardback though). The only book I've been unsure about is Acacia: the War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham; I did like the characters and felt the plot got much better after the first third, but I didn't feel it went far enough along the "undermining weird tropes of epic fantasy" line which I was expecting of it from reviews. Maybe that happens in books 2 and 3 but I'm not sure book 1 made me invested enough to find out.

Now that the Hugo list is out, I might use this challenge as an impetus to read Death's End, which is the only finalist I haven't read yet. And there's all those Expanse novels in best series too...

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