Stray Fantasy Watch
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maribouFantasy: The Best of the Year 2006, edited by Rich Horton
I thought Rich Horton showed excellent taste in selecting these stories; I had read several of them before but they were so good I didn't mind rereading them... Unfortunately, it has been weeks since I finished this so specifics sort of fail me, but if you enjoy fantasy, I definitely recommend this collection.
(136/250)
Stray, by Rachel Vincent
A surprisingly intelligent paranormal thriller featuring panther-like werecats. Liked the sexual-dynamics stuff, liked the cat stuff, liked the plot stuff, loved the narrative voice. There's a lot of what I like about Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books in this one, and almost nothing of what I hate. Excellent fluffy novel, will read more by this author when possible
(137/250)
Day Watch, by Sergei Lukyanenko
The second installment in Lukyanenko's brilliant modern fantasy trilogy. I was very worried about reading this one, because the setting created in the first book, Night Watch, - a world much like our own, but filled with magic users bound by a treaty between Light and Dark - was so fully realized, and the stories-within-the-story so completely absorbing, that everything felt deeply, deeply true. And that's hard to live up to. But I shouldn't have worried because not only is the second book just as good, it actually transcends the first by pulling together all sorts of little subplots that seemed disconnected (except thematically) into one big overarching plot. I cannot wait 'til I have an excuse to buy the third one.
I thought Rich Horton showed excellent taste in selecting these stories; I had read several of them before but they were so good I didn't mind rereading them... Unfortunately, it has been weeks since I finished this so specifics sort of fail me, but if you enjoy fantasy, I definitely recommend this collection.
(136/250)
Stray, by Rachel Vincent
A surprisingly intelligent paranormal thriller featuring panther-like werecats. Liked the sexual-dynamics stuff, liked the cat stuff, liked the plot stuff, loved the narrative voice. There's a lot of what I like about Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books in this one, and almost nothing of what I hate. Excellent fluffy novel, will read more by this author when possible
(137/250)
Day Watch, by Sergei Lukyanenko
The second installment in Lukyanenko's brilliant modern fantasy trilogy. I was very worried about reading this one, because the setting created in the first book, Night Watch, - a world much like our own, but filled with magic users bound by a treaty between Light and Dark - was so fully realized, and the stories-within-the-story so completely absorbing, that everything felt deeply, deeply true. And that's hard to live up to. But I shouldn't have worried because not only is the second book just as good, it actually transcends the first by pulling together all sorts of little subplots that seemed disconnected (except thematically) into one big overarching plot. I cannot wait 'til I have an excuse to buy the third one.
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Date: 2007-07-30 11:25 pm (UTC)Also <i>true</i>
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Date: 2007-07-31 01:12 am (UTC)b) thanks for the tip!!