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First 5:
A - Alien Taste by Wen Spencer
B - Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
C - Changing Fate by Elisabeth Waters
D - Demon Bound by Caitlin Kittredge
E - Eldest by Christopher Paolini Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Blood Lite an Anthology
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone by Lupa ... for people. There's a thread here, but it contains spoilers. With Blood and Iron specifically, though, most people seem to think there are too many (bland) pov characters and too much going on.
Not having read the book (yet) myself, I ... ... - Susan Cooper, Tam Lin - Pamela Dean, The Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope, Winter Rose - Patricia McKillip, Blood and Iron - Elizabeth Bear--and those are just the ones in my library.
DWJ has placed the story in a modern setting and woven a mystery through it. Over three-fourt ... ... them completely of my own volition. I'm weird.)
#10 Jenson, I should warn you a lot of people seem to have problems with Blood and Iron, so you might not want to start with that one. ... now requested Carnival from the library because you've made me so curious. Dust is already in my TBR pile along with Blood and Iron by the same author. iron age ... first. But, unless something very weird has happened here, I'd recommend that you go read the books in their proper order: Blood and Iron, Whiskey and Water, Ink and Steel, and lastly Hell and Earth. The ending is one helluva (pardon, please, the pun after you read the books) bang that ... ... by Art Spiegelman
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
Darkspell by Katharine Kerr
Whiskey and Water by Elizabeth Bear
Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear ... Mona Lisa Craving by Sunny
45. Fallen Angel by Margaret Weis
46. Windleaf by Josepha Sherman
47. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
48. Lightning by Dean Koontz
49. Kissed by an Angel by Elizabeth Chandler
50. Heart of Stone by C.E. Murphy Welcome! Nice list of books. I've got Blood and Iron on the TBR pile. What did you think of it? ... read so far this year:
1. Undead Kama Sutra
2. Bone Crossed
3. Turn Coat
4. White Witch, Black Curse
5. Blood and Iron: A novel of the Promethean Age
6. Tantric Stripfighter Trina
7. Grave Goods
8. The End of the Affair
9. The Gunslinger
10. Drawing of the Three ... April in review -
41. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
42. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
43. Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
44. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
45. The Radiation Sonnets by Jane Yolen
46. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
47. Walden ... ... in my tbr pile that I'm looking forward to. Maybe I'll understand the man more than I can understand his theories.
On Blood and Iron, this is one in my tbr pile, nice to know you enjoyed it!
On Fruits Basket, I just finished watching the anime last night and am looking into reading ... ... of my favorites is Elizabeth Bear, who writes beautiful prose and also tends toward dark stories. Her urban fantasy Blood and Iron was excellent, as was her post-apocalyptic cyberpunk/fantasy All the Wind-wracked Stars. Then of course, there is always A Companion to Wolves, which ... 41. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
Matthew is a magician in New York City, a member of the Promethans, who works to protect humans from the Fae that would steal them into their world as changelings. Elaine is a human bound to the Faerie world by the Mebd, one of the Queens of Faerie, and by ... I finished Blood and Iron yesterday. It's an urban fantasy set in NY and Faerie (and these are your tough-as-nails faeries, not light and winged) that's a bit different from my normal fare, but I enjoyed it enough to want to read the sequel.
Now I've started A Brief History of Time for Lo ... I'm still reading Krakatoa (it's interesting, but since I own it and it has no due date I'm very slow about it) and Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear. I'm listening to Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett. ... Not sure if I'll bother with Book #4 unless it's quite a bit shorter.
I finished First Among Sequels and have started Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear. I'm only about 10 pages into it, but so far so good. ... 28 (those are finished and going back today)
In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear (2nd attempt - I really will read it this time)
Y: The Last Man Volume 2 by Brian Vaughan
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde It was awesome! I'm so glad I didn't just give up after Blood and Iron. I'm really looking forward to reading some more of her work now.
But I don't have any more Bear on my TBR, so I've started Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. I'm about a hundred pages in now, and it ... ... in how I react to particular books by the same author. For example, I just couldn't get into Elizabeth Bear's Blood and Iron, but I loved New Amsterdam to bits. Similarly, Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood was one of the worst books I read in 2008. Sunshine wasn't ... From the library today:
The Graveyard Book
Blood and Iron and
The Brothers Karamazov
These (and my 4 other library books) should keep me busy during vacation next week! :-) 133> The first book is Blood and Iron, the second Whiskey and Water, the third Ink and Steel, and the fourth Hell and Earth.
I almost included these, because books 3 & 4 have GORGEOUS Elizabethan-style covers (call me shallow, what do I care), but reading the description of book 1 fooled ... ... reader; if I don't click with the characters, I have trouble caring about the plot.
I find that I think much better of Blood and Iron now that I've finished it and have spent some time thinking about how it's structured. My review is I'm almost done Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear, and I'm sorry to say that I really haven't enjoyed it. I can appreciate the multi-layered motivations she's given each side, but I didn't click with any of the characters and so wasn't really able to engage with the book. Sigh. You win some, ... ... arrived yesterday, (my fastest ER title ever!), so I know I really should get to that... but I've been planning to read Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear "next" for, like, two months. Something always seems to come up. Maybe I've just got to stick Bitten on the back burner for a ... I finished Blood and Iron and have to say I didn't love it. It was OK, and had a good patch, but mostly it was too wordy, and jumbled.
The story has different characters as POV in different chapters. The problem is that several of the characters are bland or not that interesting.
I ... ... Sweet by Jamie Ford
5. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
6. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
8. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeiste ...
I finished Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear. I really wanted to like it more, but it just didn't do it for me, and it was long and jumbled.
I am now going to start The Women in White by Wilkie Collins for my RL mystery group. ... I've liked most of what I've read from Bear (and interacted with her a bit at my other book site), I really struggled with Blood and Iron. I would chose Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear from appydo1's library. It sounds interesting. ... reading and enjoying ?
I seem to be reading more non-genre stuff, and more mystery stuff.
Just now I am finishing Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear for a RL SFF group. It is a fantasy set in the modern day and in Faerie, about a war between humans and the Fae.
I like her SF, but ... ... or The Feast of the Goat, both of which the snide, cool-obsessed narrator slags in the footnotes.
I am now reading Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
The Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee #42 ronincats: Sounds like I am definitely going to have to look out for The Magicians and Mrs. Quent and I have added Blood and Iron to Continent TBR as well. Thanks for the recommendations!
I have to read Blood and Iron for a RL book group.
I have read the Hammered series and enjoyed it. I also have read Carnival and Undertow, both SF. I much preferred Undertow.
It is about indigenous aliens who have their world invaded and used by humans. Most humans don't ... #120 Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
I don't read a lot of the urban fantasy in general, and faerie interfacing the modern world in particular. I really like Emma Bull's stuff, and really don't like Lackey and confederates in their treatment of it. I read this book for a discussion group. None ... I have Blood and Iron sitting over on my TBR couch, and I have to have it read by next Tuesday for a discussion group. I have read a couple of Bear's Sf, Hammered and Scardown, which I enjoyed. So by next week, I will have something to add to this thread. ... last night and am now reading Hell and Earth. It's my favorite book in the series so far, although I also really loved Blood and Iron. The second book was good as well, but I also thought it had too many characters and plotlines and not as much of faerie as the first one. I missed some of ... ... figured I'd give it a go. Someone on LT described it as, "The Lies of Locke Lamora, only better." This I gotta see.
Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear - I enjoyed A Companion to Wolves so much that I figured I'd try some of her other work. (I've already read everything Sarah Monette ... ... whopper for a local book group due in 11 days or try to sneak in a book of my own:
Lean Mean 13 by Janet Evanovich, Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear, Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon, or Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
Normally, with over 11 days I would read both mine and ... ... by Barbara Nadel
BJs Warehouse
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett
Last night I went to my local Borders and got:
Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black
Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow
The Blood King by Gail Martin
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Eva ... 52) Blood and Iron, by Elizabeth Bear.
53) The Last Colony, by John Scalzi. ... enrid
4. Un Lun Dunread
5. First Truthread
6. Mistborn
7. Blood and Ironread
8. The Crowread 53: Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear - 7/26/07-7/30/07 - 4.33 ... I have read, and there was a really good one about a dragon, yesterday, Orm the Beautiful
Btw, my sister read her Blood and Iron fantasy and said it was good.
Simon Haynes actually came up with some comedy SF, that is a little on the Red Dwarf side of things.
I have found Do ... #3 Yes, Blood and Iron is the first book of a series, I'm not sure when the next one is being published. At least in the US, Blood and Iron is out in trade paperback only, so it might be a bit of a wait still. It does have an ending nicely balanced between resolving plot threads and "but wait! ... ... paranormal, which you aren't a big fan of either than, I'd imagine? My sister is checking out Elizabeth Bear's Blood and Iron so will see what she says about that.
That stuff is almost all by women. (Maybe the odd pen name for a bloke or two for something more obscure perhaps?) Elizabeth Bear has a book called Blood and Iron apparently, and most definitely some Arthurian bits it would seem, and an urban fantasy. Merlin and all. Thanks ilande. That Blood and Iron does sound interesting. Seems to be part of a series called The Promethean Age? Did it mention that? Just a little. :-)
She's published something for nearly everyone I think. There's Blood and Iron where Faerie meets modern day and mages wander around New York City with cell phones. I just finished this one and found it enjoyable but a little choppy.
Hammered, Scardown and Worldwire ...
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