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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? April 28
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Just finished:
Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Currently reading:
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes
The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang
Really enjoyed The Spear Cuts Through Water when I read it last year. Great world building, and the tone was just lovely.
What'd you think of Strife compared to the other 3? I liked 1 and 2 quite a bit but 3 felt like a wrong direction to take for me
On the one hand, it covers a broader stretch of time—from slightly before to slightly after the rest of the series—but on the other hand it’s more human-centric, with less exploration of new non-human intelligences (although there’s still some). And like book 3, it focuses more on a single planet (but also more of Earth than we’ve seen in the rest of the series).
I’d put in on par with 3, but I liked 3 more than a lot of other readers did.
Interesting. It's a couple down on my to read list. Hopefully I'll get to it this summer