A brief book review!

I don't normally do these, but I am reading books again! So perhaps I will mention some things.

Read Steven Brust's Issola, and it is nice to know what kind of Dragaeran I would be. I would so totally be an Issola, there is no question. I would have thought an Athyra just based on the kind of work they do, but their attitude is so terrible.

Also, I particularly recommend Lia Silver's Prisoner to anyone who liked Laura's Wolf despite it being a romance novel. Like, if you are like me, and you're like "romance novels are a perfectly good genre, I guess, but I rarely find one that doesn't hit me over the head with gender roles and heteronormativity, so I don't read them much, but I really liked how Laura's Wolf countered those things!" Prisoner's got the same sort of excellently well-worked relationship, but adds in a lot more sfnal/comics elements, and they're great. Characters I relate to more on a sf/fantasy metaphor/emotional/id level, as opposed to the characters in Laura's Wolf with whom I identified because their lives shared tangible aspects of mine. Good stuff!

--R