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submitted 6 months ago by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world

Weekly post was a bit irregular last few weeks, but we are back to Tuesday now.

Got back to reading, read a bit of Streams of Silver by R. A. Salvatore, also read a few hundred pages of different web novels.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?


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[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

I finished lightbringer about 2 weeks ago! All caught up until red god comes out. Overall I loved the series. I have to say, the second trilogy was much stronger than the first trilogy. I rather enjoyed the different narrators of iron gold and dark age, so was a bit disappointed when it went back to 1 for lightbringer, though it was still excellent

Since then I finally decided to start malazan. I’m most of the way through gardens of the moon, I think. It’s the complete main run as one big audiobook, so it’s a staggering 388 hours in total. So far I’m really enjoying it. It reminds me a bit of the black company

[-] dresden@discuss.online 0 points 5 months ago

Lightbringer has 2 trilogies? Didn't it have only 5 books? I gave up in middle of the third book, so maybe missed it.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago
  1. Red rising
  2. Golden Son
  3. Morningstar
  4. Iron gold
  5. Dark age
  6. Lightbringer
  7. Red God (2026)

Edit: I do think the books are much better starting at iron gold. I liked what came before, but at times I felt like the cliches and references were a bit much. In the second trilogy I thought that issue mostly dropped away, and that the author was more comfortable in the world he built

Also, I was listening to them instead of reading, I’ve heard complaints of overly short sentence structure in the first/first few books, but the narrator smoothed over that issue gif me it seems

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