Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tony Nance Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Highlights and Lowlights - March 2025 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 16:32:31 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:32:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="19e14b40983c0b1a5e0d58b05b3aa18e"; logging-data="314794"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dPd0I8NKU9DgAaLqJNOJZuSFnINgnQfU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ePv0JgfhmsV2vvBjoLxSdDheexI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3981 On 4/2/25 11:44 PM, Ted Nolan wrote: > In article , > Tony Nance wrote: >> >> Highlights and Lowlights - March 2025 >> >> >> ( +++ ) The Emperor’s Wolves - Sagara [Wolves of Elantra #1] >> This is a very interesting prequel showing how Severn became one of the >> Emperor’s Wolves, including that it illuminates how Severn > gained a lot of his knowledge and skills. > > I keep saying I need to get back this series and not doing it... This one is the first in a side series, the second one ("Sword and Shadow") being published in 2022. She also started a side series about the Academia, first one coming out in 2023 ("Shards of Glass"), and the second one scheduled to come out in May 2025. I expect "Shards of Glass" will be the next Elantra book I read. >> >> ( +++ ) Sweep With Me - Andrews [Innkeeper Chronicles Novella - maybe >> entry “4.5”?] >> Fun like the others in this series, this one is set on Earth at the >> Gertrude Hunt Inn, featuring Dina and Sean and some of the other regular >> characters. Sean is now a co-Innkeeper with Dina. As with most of these >> stories, powerful/dangerous guests arrive with various agendas and bring >> various difficulties with them, and Dina and Sean have to use a >> combination of power, perceptiveness, knowledge, and cleverness to keep >> everyone safe. This is not to imply these stories all feel the same - >> the Andrews team is excellent at introducing new characters, races, >> twists, problems, etc. > > Looking back I see I thought the resolution of this one was a bit > weak though it was very entertaining up to that point (philosophical > space chickens!). I guess we will not get any new ones in the forseeable > future, though there is apparently a manga adaption. > Oh yes, the philosophical space chickens were a hoot. I agree that the resolution could have been more satisfying, but I enjoyed the novella nonetheless. > >> ( +++ 1/2) Salvage Right - Lee & Miller [Liaden #25] >> This one is totally focused on Jen Sin and the Tensori Light station >> that had crept into our universe to enslave and destroy. Tocohl and >> other AIs also have huge roles, as do Tolly & Haz, Anthora & Ren Zel, >> and Theo & co. The main mission is to refurbish the station, make sure >> there are no remnants of the original Tensori Light in any of the >> programming, and open up the station as a Liaden trading post in a >> region that sorely needs it. Very interesting twists and turns throughout. > > Looking forward to this one as I really enjoyed _Accepting The Lance_. > I hope things work out for Tocohl who kind of got birthed and then > stuck in a bad (non-piloting) situation for a pilot as I recall. > Yeah, I enjoyed this one very nearly as much as I enjoyed Accepting the Lance. Tony