Where are you in Fantasyland, April 2016?

New thread for April. Still reading Promise of Blood.

Just finishing up the first draft of my historical fantasy, The Enchanted Swans. About 10K more words to go on the 95K novel. Finish line in sight!

I'm in New Kelvin with a Wolf's head, wolf's heart, trying to recover some stolen artifacts.

Back in one piece from Kurald Galain, and Erikson's Kharkanas. As always, found the philosophical meandering alternately captivating/offputting. Characters amazing. Do you think #2 will really be out this month? Currently with the players in Endgame: the calling hurtling towards the earth key. I like it!

I'm in the Tri-Cities in Washington with Mercy Thompson in Fire Touched.

In Durango with Wake of Vultures. That Wild West is definitely not the one from the textbooks :)
And still in London with London Falling on the kindle.

I'm at a space station at odds with the planet below on a Dragon Ship... Though I didn't miss not having read Fledgling and Saltation while reading Ghost Ship, I have a feeling that I would be getting more out of this book if I'd done so- the protagonist has clearly been to this station before, but I haven't.

Finished Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan and started the second book in the series, The Crimson Campaign.

Endgame: the calling was pretty good. I generally don't like action novels, but this held my interest. I will read the next. I got IQ84 from the library but couldn't face it :-p
Right now, primed and ready to enter the Four Corners of Civilization according to Patrick Rothfuss: Name of the Wind. Wish me luck!

Started The Pagan Night last night. Not sure how I feel about it yet - ~100 pages in and it is still setting up the world (with a dose of standard characters for the most part). It can get better though so we will see.

I'm in the province of Kestenya in The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar, and I just left the first protagonist (a young noblewoman who took up the sword and became a soldier) and hopped over to a second one.

Some echoes of Malafrena maybe. Very beautiful and evocative writing, but I'm not sure I entirely appreciate the point of view. So far it's really nose-stuck to the events as they're currently lived or reminisced by the protagonist, with the wider picture only appearing in bits and pieces. You get all kinds of details about the sensory experience of daily life of various groups and persons and glimpses of a fascinating world, but it feels like any broader or anticipative thought is deliberately withheld and dropped into the narrative at the very last minute it can still make sense. Before that you get only fleeting and indirect hints (well, the chapter headers probably contain big hints, but I jumped over them at the first whiff of a prophetic or hagiographic tone).

I'm on the third stop in my "wrapping up some series that have been danging for too long" tour. This time, it's a loose group of desert regions known as the Quartern, in Stormlord's Exile.

Just started Dirty Magic by Jaye Wells and I'm liking it so far. I've been meaning to get into this for a while. A little bit of the standard urban paranormal, but introduces some interesting new concepts. That and good characters go a long way.

>11 Jarandel:, I purportedly won a copy of The Winged Histories but have yet to get my copy. Is it a sequel to A Stranger in Olondria or can it stand alone, I'm not clear about that?

>14 Cecrow: It's not a sequel and it stands alone, they're two different explorations of the setting.

Was your copy physical or digital ? Mine was digital and delivered as a mail attachment quite a while ago already.

I didn't even notice it was an ebook I was expecting. I'd better see if it was considered spam - thanks for the tip.

I have headed back to The Realm and Daughter of the Blood.

>17 Narilka: I do that every now and then as well. Although nowadays, I skip all the evil-people bits.

Finished The Crimson Campaign and started The Autumn Republic, both by Brian Mcclellan.

It's on to Heir to the Shadows.

Just finished Snake Agent by Liz Williams. Nice fusion of supernatural fiction and crime/detective fiction. Oriental setting in which two detectives, one from earth (human) and one from Hell (demon), have to join forces.

Currently reading Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate. I was primed to really love this from the Kindle sample, but an early time jump, and then a complete shift in setting and main characters have me struggling a bit, tbh. It's not the story I thought it was going to be from the sample, and so far at about a third of the way through, the story I *am* getting is a bit bland.

>22 Niko: I couldn't finish Spirit gate as it totally failed to hold my interest. So you are not alone in your disappointment. Elliott's Cold magic and sequels is far superior IMO.

I was in Malaz City during a very eventful Night of Knives, my first Esslemont book.

Finished the mystery I was reading and am now working on Academic Exercises by K. J. Parker.

Still in the University, but the second book of Kingkiller now. My daughter read them, and her review was "Nothing happens..." She's right and I agree. But like her, I can't stop reading it.

Has anyone picked up Kharkanas 2? Now that I'm free, I might not go for it this year.

I'm in the land of Ravka with Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.

>23 Sakerfalcon:: Good to know I'm not alone. :) I think this is the first time that such a meaty sample has steered me wrong, and I've heard such good things about her more recent work. This definitely won't stop me from checking out that newer stuff.

>26 cremorn: Still need to pick up the first one. It's definitely on the list of books to get to, but I tend to go about it in a rather meandering and protracted way.

After a very long time away from Fantasyland, I'm jumping between Fignation following Oddly Normal and Wonderland in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Barnes & Noble Classics).

Time to wrap up the trilogy with Queen of the Darkness.

Finished Dirty Magic by Jaye Wells. Pretty good. I really liked the characters and she created a really interesting world with potions and magic and cops versus a criminal underworld that uses dirty magic to make people addicted to potions. Extremely creative. I look forward to continuing with the series.

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